Alternatives in Financing Your Wine Business
Expand or Exit - Four Options for Success

Join the Wine Industry Team from Farella Braun + Martel and guests Bacchus Capital Management, Global Wine Partners, Silicon Valley Bank and Vinum Capital Management, LLC as they define the new world of attractive options for financing the creation, development or acquisition of a wine business at this informative morning conference and exhibit hall.

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Matt Lewis, panelist, "Maximizing Value in Selling Your Company - Considerations, strategies and key steps to successfully position your company for sale in today's market". Farella Braun + Martel, Co-Sponsor.
The City Club of San Francisco

NVV will host a member workshop on the topic "Survey Reveals Wineries Unprepared for Business Transitions", Fred Caspersen, Panelist
Copia, Napa, CA

Rick Van Duzer & Susan Cagann, moderators, "Meet the Regulator Roundtable" featuring a panel from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
Farella Braun + Martel, San Francisco, CA

Susan Cagann, speaker, Changes and Challenges in Alcoholic Beverage Regulations 
Naples Grande Resort & Club, Naples, Florida

Farella Braun + Martel, Title Sponsor
Matt Lewis, Moderator
"Cracking the Branding Code: Getting your wine noticed and on the shelves"
Vintners Inn, Santa Rosa
8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m

Susan Cagann, Faculty, "Special Problems of the Wine Industry"
NABCA's 14th Annual Symposium on Alcohol Beverage Law
Arlington, VA

In assocaition with TIPA and the Formosa Transnational Law Firm, attorneys John Cooper, Jeffrey Fisher and Jonathan Lemberg presented on the topic "Patent Pooling and Litigation Practices in the United States" at a seminar in Taiwan.

Matt Lewis, speaker, "Raising Capital - Growth and Investment Strategies."

Wine Industy Education Series hosted by:
Farella Braun + Martel LLP and Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Alliance

Bruce Maximov and Grant Thompson served on the three person CEB panel on Organizing and Advising Closely-Held Businesses in San Francisco.  Bruce Maximov was the moderator and a presenter.  Grant Thompson presented on tax issues faced by closely-held businesses.

Said Kordestani presented on the ins and outs of historic tax credits and new market tax credits at the 31st Annual California Preservation Conference.  His presentation was entitled "The Road to Success, Federal Historic Tax Credit and Financing Incentives for Adaptive Reuse Projects."

Matt Lewis, moderator, North Bay Business Journal's Wine Industry Conference, "How Wine Companies Succeed in a Constantly Changing and Keenly Competitive Market"
Santa Rosa.

Farella Braun + Martel is a sponsor of the ACC-A San Francisco Bay Area Chapter CLE Spring Training.  Farella Braun + Martel attorneys Rod Thompson and David Stoll along with Associate General Counsel Kevin Saul of Apple Computer, Inc. will present a program on "Spare Parts to Bug Fixes: Understanding the differences between hardware licensing and software licensing."

Matthew Lewis, Chair of the Business Transactions Group at Farella Braun + Martel LLP, will host the roundtable at the City Club of San Francisco along with David Dinerman of Grant Thornton and Roger Wood of Wood Warren & Co.

Partners Robert Sloss and Dean Gloster will lead a seminar titled "When IP-Driven Companies Drive Off the Road: Technology Company Re-Starts, Salvage, or Asset Collection" at the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto.

Farella Braun + Martel will host an ABA IP Roundtable on the topic, "Litigating IP and IT Contracts -- and Drafting Tips for Avoiding Litigation."  Partners Nan Joesten and Dean Gloster will moderate the discussion.