Health Care Financing Remains Strong!

Venture capital funding increased in the health care industry for 2007 and health care M&A activity remained strong even in light of the subprime mortgage meltdown, according to Irving Levin Associates, Inc. The year produced a total of 50 billion dollar deals, worth a combined total of over $153.6 billion.

Strategic Research Institute’s 2008 Healthcare Investor & Corporate Development Conference on May 13-14, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois, once again provides you with the best opportunity to learn from the intricacies of completed deals and hear about where the opportunities lie for the future.

SRI’s annual event is highly regarded in the industry and well attended by healthcare CEOs, CFOs, business development officers and the financial & investment community including commercial & investment banking, private equity, LBO, venture funds, institutional investors, M&A specialists and senior, mezzanine and other lenders. More than 200 health care executives and financiers attended this event in 2007.

Firms that spoke in the highly acclaimed 2007 conference included Sunrise Senior Living, Rehabcare Group, Paradigm Health, Capella Healthcare, Solara Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Community Health Systems, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Gordion, Surgis, National Renal Alliance, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, Fortress Investments, JP Morgan, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bank of America Securities, Goldman Sachs, Apax Partners, Capitol Health, Merrill Lynch, Healthways, Ferrer Freeman & Co. and more.

Program highlights include:

• Healthcare M&A buyout trends
• Analysis of the private equity surge
• New funding options and how to access capital markets
• Update on Healthcare Regulation from Washington
• Political implications of an election year
• Retail clinics: ripple effect and opportunities
• Impact of consumer driven health
• Update on health care startups
• What diligence issues are emerging?
• How to value risk
• What’s behind and ahead for deal pricing
• Setting acquisition criteria and approaching targets
• Post-merge integration strategies
• Evaluating the best liquidity or exit strategy for your firm
• Timing the deal
• Conveying the real value of your business
• Opportunities in specialty care and medical devices

If you are a healthcare executive interested in learning about the best options for accessing capital, this is the conference for you. Register today to ensure your place.

For more information about the conference please contact:

Kathy Stewart
Managing Director, Life Sciences/Healthcare
kstewart@sinstitute.com
917 617 6939

If you are looking to expand and diversify your Asset Allocation by investing in emerging managers as well as women and minority owned investment managers, this conference will provide the unique opportunity to access a diversified group of up-and-coming performance-oriented managers and manager of managers. The conference will explore the benefits and opportunities offered by investing in emerging managers as well as new strategies for implementing an emerging managers program. If you are an emerging manager, you will learn the procedures used by institutions to launch and maintain successful emerging manager programs. This event will showcase a variety of emerging mangers as well as minority-owned manager funds and other high potential smaller investment firms, and it will offer participants invaluable networking opportunities.

• Guarantors' Perspective: Pricing & Structuring of Guarantees
• Should You Invest in Principal Protected Hedge Funds and Fund of Funds?
• Managing Asset Allocation: Getting the Most Out of the Equity Market While Retaining Principal
• Using Principal Protection in Retirement Planning & College-Savings 529 Plans
• And, much, much more!

The landscape for the structuring and administration of trusts is changing. The rise of China and the continued economic growth of the Asia Pacific and Gulf regions are fueling unprecedented growth of international trusts. The increasing prominence of trusts has been accompanied by more and more international legislative and regulatory scrutiny.

Within the array of wealth planning tools Foreign Asset Protection Trusts (FAPTs) are frequently preferred for asset protection purposes because they provide a higher level of protective measures than domestic trusts by the nature of the statutes governing them.

Because FAPT is an offshore entity, it is generally not answerable for judgments handed down by U.S. courts. For a U.S. creditor to collect a judgment against a FAPT, it generally would have to bring a new action in the foreign jurisdiction. While there are many specific issues which determine how immune the trust assets may be from creditor attack, in general there are formidable barriers for all but the most determined and well-funded creditors.

U.S. Trusts practices continue to experience widespread and highly significant change on a near daily basis. Now U.S. based legislation means an ongoing battle for those in the industry to provide the best possible service to clients, whilst ensuring they stay on the right side of regulation. On top of this, different initiatives from multilateral organizations mean all in the region are affected by developments, and all must strive to stay ahead, offering the best legal and product advice in what is currently an extremely competitive sector.

In the midst of such a complex landscape, trust practitioners must continue to adopt new and innovative trust and estate planning techniques. The design and implementation of complex wealth transfer and preservation plans requires a careful examination of international opportunities to meet the needs of the increasingly knowledgeable clients.

Our conference will deal with trusts and estate planning for both U.S. clients with foreign connections and foreign clients with U.S. connections and discuss thoroughly Tax and reporting rules relating to foreign trusts, their regulation and their implementing. This event will also facilitate networking among international and U.S. delegates

This is an ideal event for lawyers, private bankers, wealth managers and trust company representatives from across the U.S., Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean and other international jurisdictions worldwide.

Speakers and presenters will include a broad mix of international experts that will guide you through the key legal, regulatory and taxation issues of getting up and managing domestic and international trusts.

Specific topics for this discussion include:

• Cross Border Estate Planning (with a sample case)
• Asset Protection
• Trust Administration- Jurisdiction Comparisons
• Trust Protector Issues: The Use of Trust Protectors in International and U.S. Trusts
• Private Trust Companies- Their Proliferation and Uses
• 2005 Bankruptcy Code Analysis- Impact on U.S. Assets and U.S. Trusts
• Integration of Trusts and Family Offices
• Life Insurance, Including Domestic and International PPVUL, An Increasingly common Trust Asset
• Foreign and Domestic Foundations- Uses, Integration, Application
• Case Study: Family Office Caliber Planning for Multi-National Families
• Dealing with Institutional Trustees
• OECD/FATF Updates and Impact on Trust Planning
• Swiss Trusts- Taxation
• Delaware Trusts – the latest
• Outsourcing Your Private Trust Companies- A New Kind of Trustee

Keynote Presentations By:

R. David Andrews
President and Managing General Partner
Gryphon Investors

Joshua Friedman
Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer
Canyon Partners, LLC

Fred Malek
Founder and Chairman
Thayer Capital Partners

Peter J. Nolan
Managing Partner
Leonard Green & Partners, L.P.

Jeffrey Stevenson
Managing Partner and Co-Chief Executive Officer
Veronis Suhler Stevenson

Brett Wyard
Managing Director and the Co-Head of Carlyle Strategic Partners
The Carlyle Group

The SPAC Conference taking place June 5^th at the Hilton Hotel in New York is a new event produced by DealFlow Media, publisher of The SPAC Report. This unique conference offers the largest gathering of investors, bankers and management teams in the market. For more information, visit www.dealflowmedia.com or call (516) 876-8006.

This conference will address the President's Working Group release on best practices for hedge fund investors and asset managers.

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association is hosting the Hedge Funds and Alternative Investments Summit and Exposition on June 16-17, 2008. This conference will address the current business, operational, legal and compliance issues impacting the hedge fund and sell-side communities while offering the largest networking opportunity available.

This summit and exposition offers advanced workshops geared towards regulatory, compliance, operational, and risk officers. Industry professionals will address current issues impacting the hedge fund industry, how to prepare for tomorrow and a look at alternative investments.

The Reverse Merger Conference taking place June 18 -19 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles is the largest event of its kind. This conference is for serious professionals in the business of alternative IPO transactions. This two-day event covers all of the technical issues relating to reverse mergers, self-underwriting, and other alternative routes to the public market.  For more information, visit www.dealflowmedia.com or call (516) 876-8006.