Echoing a topic certain to resonate across the public company board landscape and stretch down the supply chain to impact private companies in 2013 and beyond, Lawrence Heim and Jeff Perry will speak to advanced aspects of familiarization and compliance with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s conflict minerals rules promulgated in August 2012.

These rules impose disclosure and due diligence requirements on publicly-traded companies that manufacture products containing certain minerals designated as “conflict minerals,” such as gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, wolframite, and their derivatives, tantalum, tin and tungsten, which have been mined or smelted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or adjoining countries.

In this 90-minute webinar, panelists, Lawrence M. Heim of The Elm Consulting Group International LLC and Jeffrey H. Perry, an attorney with King & Spalding LLP, will:

• Describe their experience applying the SEC’s final rules implementing Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
• Address implementation considerations, audit standards, and recommended governance structures.
• Analyze approaches to situations involving corporate operations falling on the cusp of the rules, including both straightforward and complex exemptions.
• Explore approaches to preparing documentation, including conflict minerals policies, supplier letters, purchase order clauses, and supplier representations and certifications; data validity concerns; and verification approaches.
• Discuss Conflict Minerals Reports, applicable audit standards, and what types of information companies will be required to disclose in their nascent Form SD filings.

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Lawrence M. Heim, The Elm Consulting Group International LLC and Jeffrey H. Perry, King & Spalding

Lawrence M. Heim, a certified professional environmental auditor, is the director of The Elm Consulting Group International LLC. He has more than 27 years of experience in environmental management and auditing. Lawrence is the firm’s lead on conflict minerals programs and auditing, and has been involved in conflict minerals project since 2010 where he conducted the first tantalum smelter audits under the EICC-GeSI Conflict Free Smelter program. He was the only representative of the EHS consulting/auditing sector selected by the US Securities and Exchange Commission to their Conflict Minerals Roundtable convened October 2011. Lawrence has made numerous public presentations/educational programs on the topic, including in venues sponsored by the American Bar Association, the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, IPC, and the Institute of Technology Research Institute. He was recently selected by The Auditing Roundtable to lead a working group to develop a standard/guidance for non-CPAs to use with the Government Accountability Office’s performance audit standards for Conflict Minerals Report audits.


Jeffrey H. Perry is an attorney in King & Spalding’s Washington, D.C. office. Jeff’s practice focus includes advising top-tier domestic and international clients in regulatory and litigation matters. He also serves as editor of the Energy Newsletter, a much relied upon, firm-generated client resource. Jeff retains expert knowledge of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s specialized disclosure provisions covering conflict minerals and oil, gas, and mining payments. He possesses strong familiarity with regulatory compliance provisions, including those of the SEC, Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of the Interior; administrative law and procedure, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations, and federal government contracting provisions; and construction law and litigation. Jeff’s representations include advising the general counsel and senior regulatory counsel of a major manufacturer concerning regulatory compliance and corporate governance issues, counseling senior executives of a large industrial supplier concerning regulatory compliance issues, advising senior executives and counsel of a “Big Four” accounting firm regarding expansion into a heavily-regulated business area and compliance with state and federal laws, advising senior regulatory counsel of a major joint venture regarding state and federal antitrust regulations, and defending (and prosecuting) FOIA requests on the behalf of numerous leading companies covering a diverse range of industries.