Agenda
Meeting of SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies

Location:

SEC San Francisco Regional Office
44 Montgomery Street, Suite 2800
San Francisco, CA 94104

Date:

Friday, September 7, 2012

9:00 a.m.

Call to Order/Update from Co-Chairs of Advisory Committee

9:15 a.m.

Presentations and Discussion of Market Structure Issues and Impact on Initial Public Offerings

Panelists:

• Jay Ritter - Cordell Professor of Finance, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida
• David Weild -Chairman and CEO, Capital Markets Advisory Partners and Head of the Capital Markets Group of Grant Thornton LLP
• Edward Kim - Managing Director, Capital Markets Advisory Partners and Managing Director of the Capital Markets Group of Grant Thornton LLP

12:00 p.m.

Lunch/SEC Enforcement Staff Presentation on Compliance Risks Facing Small & Emerging Companies

1:00 p.m.

Presentations and Discussion of Disclosure Rules for Smaller Public Companies

Panelists:

• Steven E. Bochner, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
• Jeff Schwartz, Associate Professor, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
• Robert Bartlett, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

3:30 p.m.

Discussion of Next Steps/Closing Comments

4:00 p.m.

Adjourn

Modified: 08/30/2012