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409A Breakfast Briefing Please join attorneys from our Compensation & Benefits Group for a discussion of the practical steps you must take before 2009 to help protect your employees from adverse taxation under Section 409A and your company from penalties for failures to withhold applicable taxes. We will discuss actual examples of arrangements subject to Section 409A and the alternatives for bringing those arrangements into compliance with, or for exempting those arrangements from, Section 409A. For more information, please email Kareen Lambert or call (650) 843-5145.	07/23/08 8:00AM - 10:00AM	Palo Alto, CA
The All-Star Thought Leadership Roundtable, Presented by Cooley and Mass High Tech Cooley and Mass High Tech are pleased to present the first of three special invitation-only programs in the All-Star Thought Leadership Roundtable Series. This initial breakfast program, titled: What Does $1 Billion Buy in Biotech These Days?: Will the $1 Billion Massachusetts Legislature Solve the Preclinical Biotech Funding Crisis?, will explore the newly instated Massachusetts life sciences bill and the funding it will bring into the state. Led by Partner Les Fagen, the program features the following panelists: Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister, President of the Massachsetts State Life Sciences Center Jack Wilson, President of the University of Massachusetts Amir Nashat, General Partner with Polaris Ventures Christoph Westphal, CEO of Sirtris Please contact Beth Roche, Senior Marketing Specialist, for further details, at 617.937/2343 or eroche@cooley.com.	07/24/08 7:30AM - 9:00AM	Boston, MA
The 15th Annual PE CFO Conference CFO’s and financial professionals of Private Equity and Venture Capital firms are invited to attend this complimentary, one-day technical conference hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cooley Godward Kronish and Thomson Reuters. The attendees will hear presentations on the state of the private equity market, and current tax, accounting and legal issues. For more information, please email Kareen Lambert or call (650) 843-5145.	07/30/08 8:00AM - 7:30PM	Palo Alto, CA
Capital Call Sponsors: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Silicon Valley Bank, Comerica Bank and Deloitte Capital Call is a quarterly event hosted by Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Silicon Valley Bank, Comerica Bank and Deloitte at which we present five of the region's hottest growth companies over lunch at no cost to an audience of 100 venture capitalists and private equity investors.	09/03/08 11:30AM - 1:00PM	Reston, VA
Attanasio speaks at ABTL 35th Annual Seminar Mike Attanasio speaks on “Humanizing the Corporate Defendant” at the upcoming ABTL Annual Seminar - “Business In the Courtroom: Getting Your Message Across.”	09/24/08	Poipu, Kauai, HI