New York partner Kay Gordon and Charlotte partner Sabrina Conyers will speak in a one-hour Practising Law Institute (PLI) program titled "Introduction to Issues Arising from Advising a Small Minority-Owned Business." The briefing will inform participants of economic and legal issues faced by small, minority-owned businesses.

Topics will include: 

• Introduction to the economic landscape for the small minority-owned business 
• Introduction to the corporate and federal securities law implications of organizing, financing and operating a small minority-owned business
• Introduction to federal income tax considerations in organizing and operating a small minority-owned business 
• Introduction to the negotiation and documentation to an SBA guaranteed loan for a small minority-owned business

Gordon counsels clients on hedge fund, funds-of-fund, private equity fund, real estate fund, venture funds, and compliance-related matters involving registered advisers and broker-dealers.

Conyers is a partnership and corporate tax attorney with more than 15 years of experience providing domestic and international tax planning, general corporate, corporate governance, private equity, and real estate finance planning and advisory services to clients.