As a result of the SEC's new conflict minerals rule, each reporting company is now required to disclose its use of any conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of a product that it manufactures or contracts to be manufactured. Non-reporting companies are impacted by this rule as well. You have read the rule and articles warning about its impact. You have discussed your obligations with your in-house counsel. Your Board of Directors wants to know the status of your compliance program. Do you know where to begin? Have you started to implement your program but are encountering questions and difficulties? In this webinar our experts discuss the realities of complying with the conflict minerals rule and how companies are coping with its requirements. They talk about the following: Common misunderstandings about the rule Concrete steps to help you get started Product background and filtering strategies Responding to customers Reaching out to suppliers Suggested contract provisionsOur expertsDynda A. ThomasDynda Thomas is deputy practice leader of Squire Sanders' Corporate Transactions, Finance & Governance Practice Group and has extensive experience in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and project finance. She has had principal responsibility for numerous mergers, acquisitions and dispositions for public and private companies in a wide range of sell-side and buy-side auctions and negotiated transactions.\r
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As leader of the Squire Sanders' conflict minerals team, Dynda focuses on relevant industries' best practices in working with clients' legal, procurement and compliance groups. She advises on developing and reviewing procurement policies, training executives and relevant client teams, planning communications with customers and suppliers, and proposing data gathering and retention policies. Dynda and her team work with companies in a wide variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, consumer products, electronics and mining.\r
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Dynda is the Budget Officer and a Vice Chair of the Infrastructure Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Public Utility, Communications and Transportation (PUCAT) Law Section, having also spent one year as chair of the Program Committee and three years as the co-editor of the Section's newsletter. Dynda is listed in the 2011 and 2012 editions of The Legal 500 US for her mergers and acquisitions practice and has been recognized as an Ohio Super Lawyer in Law & Politics magazine continuously since 2007.\r
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She is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.Andrew J. RenacciAndrew Renacci focuses his practice on corporate acquisitions, mergers and dispositions, corporate governance, and securities matters for private and public companies.\r
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Prior to joining Squire Sanders, Andrew was a law clerk for a Fortune 500 company in the general building materials industry assisting in its corporate governance and securities matters.
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