Dr. David Martin to Present at the Women in Housing and Finance Brown Bag Lunch (11/14/2012)

Date:  Thu, 2012-11-08

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA & Washington D.C. – On Wednesday, November 14, 2012, M·CAM Chairman David Martin will be presenting at the Women in Housing and Finance Brown Bag Lunch event. Other speakers include James Loder, SVP & Chief Underwriting Officer Complex Situational Risk Insurance (CSI), and Brian O’Hara, former CEO of XL Capital Ltd.The topic for the event is: “Attracting Tier 1 Capital to Banks by Bringing Liquidity to Innovation Assets.”

Topic Background: America’s innovation assets — patents, trademarks, copyrights, permits, licenses, contract rights, etc. — are completely encumbered within senior secured bank loans and yet none of that asset value is counted by regulators when they look at bank capital reserves.

The mispricing of risk around these innovation assets has created a market opportunity for highly rated counterparties to provide liquidity to banks. At the event, we will discuss such a liquidity bridging mechanism. As evidenced by transactions like the sale of Nortel’s patents for $4.5 billion out of bankruptcy and Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion “primarily for their patents”, there is significant latent value for which banks, and their job creating corporate borrowers, are not benefiting.

Speaker Bios:

Dr. David E. Martin, Founder and Chairman of M·CAM Inc., the international leader in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance. Dr. Martin is a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.

James Loder, SVP & Chief Underwriting Officer Complex Situational Risk Insurance (CSI), leads XL Group’s CSI team. He focuses on the creation of novel solutions for complex and unique non-traditional insurance risks and transactional and contingent liability exposures.

Brian O’Hara, former CEO of XL Capital Ltd., now known as XL Group plc. He served as Chairman of XL’s Board of Directors from 2008 to 2009. He is a prior Chairman of the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR) and is a Director/member of the Executive Committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

For questions on the program content, please contact Ken Dabkowski at (434) 979-7240 x366 or kad@m-cam.com. Please call the WHF office with any other questions.

Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Location: Pepper Hamilton, LLP, 600 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005

Directions: Metro Center (Red/Blue/Orange)

Cost: Complimentary, WHF Members Only. Not a member? Call WHF at 703-683-4742 and we would be happy to assist in getting you signed up for membership.

RSVP: Please RSVP no later than 12:00 pm, Tuesday, November 13, 2012.