5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Cocktails
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner and Discussion

Office of Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
225 West Wacker Drive, 30th Floor
Chicago, Illinois

Join us for an in-depth discussion of the Eurozone Crisis and its impact on international financial contracts. Charles Proctor, Partner in Edwards Wildman’s London office, will be the featured speaker. Charles is considered an expert in international banking and is continuously sought after for insight into the European debt crisis.

Charles will discuss the overarching issues, consequences for specific obligations, the implications of a multi-lateral break up and regulatory issues including:

• Can a Member State withdraw from the eurozone?
• Can a Member State be expelled from the eurozone?
• What are the legal consequences of a eurozone withdrawal for payment obligations?
• What rules apply to determine whether a contract remains denominated in euro or is converted into the new currency of the departing Member State?
• What are the consequences for the specific obligations such as bonds, swaps and repos?
• Sequential Departures from eurozone
• Capital Adequacy/Systems issues

Seminar is complimentary, but space is limited. Click here to RSVP by February 10, 2012

Wednesday, February 22
10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

InvestMidwest

Annually showcases 45 high-growth companies from throughout the Midwest in life sciences, technology and alternative energy/cleantech

300+ attendees, including investors from top venture capital firms in the Midwest

Results–InvestMidwest has helped presenting companies generate over $850 million of investment in 12 years

Applications for the 2012 InvestMidwest will be accepted starting October 20

For information, click here.

We invite you to join us for exciting and stimulating discussions of innovations in the pipeline in health, advanced materials, clean energy and sustainability, and information technology.

Thursday, April 5th: Faculty presentations

Friday, April 6th: Tours of UIUC's EnterpriseWorks and Research Park

Faculty speakers, listed below, include winners of the MacArthur Fellowship, Lemelson-MIT Prize, NIH New Innovator Award, Korea’s Ho-Am Prize in Science, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scientist Awards, Humboldt Awards, and IEEE awards, among other national and international accolades.

The University’s entrepreneurial momentum is high. Recent technology breakthroughs have launched startup companies such as ShareThis, mc10 Inc., Riverglass, Solarbridge, Semprius, ANDalyze, Nuvixa, Cazoodle, EdenPark, Xerion Advanced Battery, Hoowaki, Vanquish Oncology, ImmuVen, Diagnostic Photonics, Autonomic Materials, 4d Teleport Technologies, and many others.

The Association of University Research Parks named the University’s technology park as the 2011 Outstanding Research Park, recognizing its excellence in transitioning technology from the laboratory to commercially viable businesses. The Research Park, currently home to more than 90 companies, was also named by Forbes in 2010 as one of "10 Incubators That Are Changing the World."

For more information: http://otm.illinois.edu/Showcase

To register: www.regonline.com/UIUCTechShowcase2012 (please note the deadline for registration is March 15, 2012)

For questions, please contact Nicole Nair at nnair@illinois.edu

For information, click here.

Mark your calendars! Chicago Ideas Week 2012 is October 8-14. With 25+ CIW Talks, 4 Megatalks, and 75+ CIW Labs, CIW will again bring together world leaders, creators and innovators, and transform Chicago into a global hub of new ideas and an ecosystem of innovation.