Telestrat is a worldwide leader in continuing legal education (CLE) courses. Our Telestrat MBA Seminar Series has brought the world of finance, accounting, and business strategy to lawyers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Live Webcasts

Telestrat periodically holds live interactive webcasts covering business topics. These live webcasts are scheduled at specific times and include both an online component and a phone teleconference.

Stocks, Bonds, Options Online - Securities Basics for Lawyer

Format:Live webcast - facilitates real-time interaction with instructor
Date:November 12, 2008
Time:12pm - 2pm Eastern, 9am - 11am Pacific
CLE Credits:Usually 1.5 - 2 depending on the state
Presented by:Max Minkoff, Corporate Executive, Business Professor
Tuition:$199/ Session

Attorneys play a vital role in capital formation and deal structuring for companies of all sizes. This Continuing Legal Education (CLE/MCLE) course is designed to offer attorneys a better understanding of the financial instruments they help structure. Topics covered will include: stocks, bonds, options, futures, and arbitrage. The course will also introduce basic concepts of arbitrage in a manner that requires no mathematical background. Additionally, the course will explore these concepts in the context of real cases drawn from recent transactions.

  1. Background on Securities
    • Capital Formation
    • Securities Classes
    • Securities and Hedging
  2. Stocks
    • Structure
    • Valuation
    • Volatility Measures
    • Bid/Ask
    • Pricing
  3. Bonds
    • Structure
    • Valuation
    • Debentures
    • Coupon vs. Yield
    • Fixed vs. Floating
    • High Yield Debt
    • Pricing
  1. Options
    • Structure
    • Calls vs. Puts
    • Options in Hedging
    • Black-Scholes Model
    • Pricing
  2. Futures
    • Commodities
    • Cost of Carry
    • Exchanges
    • Fair Value
    • Pricing
  3. Arbitrage
    • Option Arbitrage
    • Currency Arbitrage
    • Merger Arbitrage
    • Index Arbitrage
    • Pricing

Max Minkoff

Corporate Executive, Business Professor

Max Minkoff is Chief Operating Officer of Telestrat Consulting, Inc., a financial advisory boutique which specializes in corporate valuation. Mr. Minkoff began his career with Rohm and Haas Company and has since served as CEO, COO, CFO, and CTO at a variety of emerging growth companies, beginning with VictorMaxx Technologies, a Virtual Reality consumer product company that he helped take public in 1995. Mr. Minkoff also started and worked with several other successful companies, including ShotTower LLC, a private-label foods manufacturer, Blogarithm, a popular Internet service for blog readers, and DocuVault Delaware Valley, a fast-growing records archive and destruction service.

Mr. Minkoff has taught university courses in business management and holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.