The increase of new financial products and the decrease of credit markets over the past decade have led to major new regulatory requirements. While these tools have enormous potential for product manufacturers and investors, they create potentially significant legal risks and challenges for legal counsel and regulators. Nashville partner Gary M. Brown will explain the fundamentals that you should know when dealing with financial investment products during a Practising Law Institute seminar Jan. 24-25 in New York.

In more than 30 years of practice, Brown has advised a wide variety of public companies in the areas of corporate governance, securities compliance, and mergers and acquisition. From his office in Nashville, he has been at the center of significant national transactions and events, including U.S Senate investigations into the 2002 collapse of Enron Corp. and the role of investment banks in the 2008 financial crisis as well as the resulting legislation – the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.