This page lists all talks on corporate governance issues given by outside speakers in Harvard Law School courses, seminars, and events organized by corporate faculty and fellows.
2023-24
| Sept. 5 | Omri Ben Shahar (Chicago Law School) Privacy Protection, At What Cost? Exploring the Regulatory Resistance to Data Technology in Auto Insurance |
| Sept. 6 | Joel Friedlander (Friedlander & Gorris, Delaware) Oracle |
| Sept. 11 | Jonathan Zytnick (Georgetown Law School) Do Mutual Funds Represent Individual Investors? |
| Sept. 12 | Ryan Bubb (NYU) Corporate Social Responsibility Through Shareholder Governance |
| Sept. 13 | Josh Cammaker (Wachtell) and Ben Kanovich (Bredin Prat, Paris) Activism Against Staggered Boards and Fossil Fuel Companies |
| Sept. 13 | Oliver Hart (Harvard University) Stakeholder Capitalism |
| Sept. 20 | Silpa Maruri and George Phillips (Quinn Emanuel, NY) Dell |
| Sept. 26 | Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law School) and Alan Sykes (Chicago Law School) The California Effect, Process-Based Regulations, and the Dormant Commerce Clause |
| Sept. 27 | Andrew Rossman (Quinn Emanuel, NY) FanDuel |
| Sept. 27 | Kai Liekefett (Sidley) Activism Defense |
| Sept. 27 | Jonas Kron (Trillium Asset Management), Leslie Samuelrich (Green Century Funds), and Tim Smith (ICCR) Socially Responsible Investment and Stewardship |
| Sept. 28 | John Coates (Harvard Law School) The Problem of Twelve |
| Oct. 2 | Alma Cohen (Harvard Law School) The Pervasive Role of Ideology in Circuit Court Decisions |
| Oct. 3 | Hal Scott (Harvard Law School) The 2023 Banking Crisis and Reforming the Role of Lender of Last Resort |
| Oct. 4 | Jeroen van Kwawegen and Tom James (Bernstein Litowitz, NY) Columbia Pipeline |
| Oct. 4 | Paul Singer (Elliott Management Corporation) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Oct. 5 | Ben Colton (State Street Global Advisors) Institutional Investor Stewardship |
| Oct. 10 | Raymond Fisman (Boston University) Investing in Influence: Investors, Portfolio Firms, and Political Giving |
| Oct. 11 | Seth Fischer (Oasis, Hong Kong) Shareholder Activism in Japan |
| Oct. 11 | Assaf Hamdani (Tel Aviv University) Superstar CEOs and Large Shareholders |
| Oct. 11 | Cyrus Taraporevala (State Street Global Advisors) Institutional Investor Stewardship |
| Oct. 16 | Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School) Global Powers and the Global Landscape of Entrepreneurship |
| Oct. 17 | Michael Meurer (Boston University) A New Approach to Patent Reform |
| Oct. 18 | Kobi Kastiel (Tel Aviv University) Private Equity and Continuation Funds |
| Oct. 18 | Matt Cole (Strive) Anti-ESG Activism |
| Oct. 24 | Albert Yoon (University of Toronto Faculty of Law) In the Eye of the Beholder: How Lawyers Perceive Legal Ethical Problems |
| Oct. 30 | Vyacheslav Fos (Boston College) Trading Ahead of Barbarians’ Arrival at the Gate: Insider Trading on Non-Inside Information |
| Nov. 1 | William Ackman (Pershing Square) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Nov. 1 | Rebecca Henderson (Harvard Business School) Reimagining Capitalism |
| Nov. 2 | David Millstone (Standard Industries) M&A Rules and Investment Decisions |
| Nov. 2 | Boaz Weinstein (Saba Capital Management) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Nov. 6 | Lauren Cohen (Harvard Business School) The Senator Next Door: Peer Influence and Political Depolarization |
| Nov. 6 | Andrew D. Cordo (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati) Nine Systems |
| Nov. 7 | Roberto Tallarita (Harvard Law School) Shareholder Preferences on Shareholder Democracy |
| Nov. 8 | Mark Lebovitch (formerly of Bernstein Litowitz, NY) Edgio |
| Nov. 14 | Jim Greiner (Harvard Law School) Do Risk Assessment Instruments in the Criminal Justice System Work? Evidence from an RCT |
| Nov. 16 | Alexandra Farmer (Kirkland & Ellis), Marc Gerber (Skadden), andBetty Huber (Latham & Watkins) ESG Cases |
| Nov. 20 | Charles Wang (Harvard Business School) Governance Transparency and Firm Value: Evidence from Korean Chaebols |
| Nov. 21 | Kathryn Spier (Harvard Law School) and Rory Van Loo (Boston University) Foundations of Platform Liability |
| Nov. 28 | Kathryn Zeiler (Boston University School of Law) Metaresearch, Psychology, and Law: a Case Study on Implicit Bias |
| Nov. 29 | Colleen Smith and Kristin Murphy (Latham, San Diego/OC) Trade Desk |
| Jan. 5 | Alex Liberman (Medline) Auctions in M&A – Theory and Practice |
| Jan. 22 | Nadya Malenko (Boston College) Creating Controversy in Proxy Voting Advice |
| Jan. 29 | Shikhar Singla (Stanford Graduate School of Business) Regulatory Costs and Market Power |
| Jan. 30 | Daniel Hemel (NYU School of Law) Capital Taxation in the Middle of History |
| Feb. 6 | Mark Roe (Harvard Law School) Bankruptcy and the Rise of Market Valuation |
| Feb. 12 | Benjamin Pyle (Boston University School of Law) Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority: Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework |
| Feb. 13 | Keith Hylton (Boston University School of Law) Utility, Copyright, and Fair Use after Warhol |
| Feb. 20 | Daniel Francis (NYU School of Law) Antitrust Without Competition |
| Feb. 27 | Aileen Nielson (Harvard Law School) Too Accurate AI |
| Mar. 4 | Mark Roe (Harvard Law School) Absolute Priority, Relative Priority, and Valuation Uncertainty in Bankruptcy |
| Mar. 5 | Molly Brady (Harvard Law School) Hidden Information in Property Law |
| Mar. 18 | Emma Harrington (University of Virginia) and Hannah Shaffer (Harvard Law School) How Individual Bias Becomes Systemic Discrimination: Prosecutors’ Imperfect Check on Police Arrests |
| Mar. 26 | Allen Ferrell (Harvard Law School) Cryptocurrencies and Market Efficiency |
| Mar. 29 | Greg Varallo and Jeroen van Kwawegen (Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP) Tornetta V Musk |
| Apr. 1 | Ashesh Rambachan (MIT) An Economic Approach to Regulating Algorithms |
| Apr. 2 | Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (NYU School of Law) Machines That Think like Lawyers: Issues, Methods, and Illustrations from Privacy Policies |
| Apr. 8 | Caroline Flammer (Columbia University) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion |
| Apr. 9 | Jared Ellias (Harvard Law School) The Debt Markets Go Dark |
| Apr. 11 | William Birdthistle (SEC) Career Path to the SEC |
| Apr. 15 | Kyle Rozema (Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law) How Do Occupational Licensing Requirements Affect the Size of the U.S. Legal Profession? |
| Apr. 16 | Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School) Goods That People Buy But Wish Did Not Exist |
2022-23
| Sept. 12 | Jared Ellias (HLS) and Kobi Kastiel (HLS and Tel-Aviv) Employee Bankruptcy Trauma, The Rise of Bankruptcy Directors |
| Sept. 12 | Vyacheslav Fos (BC Carroll School of Management) The Political Polarization of Corporate America |
| Sept. 14 | Zohar Goshen (Columbia Law School) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Sept. 19 | Jared Ellias (HLS) Employee Bankruptcy Trauma |
| Sept. 19 | Robert Jackson Jr. (NYU) Regulatory Leakage Among Financial Advisors, Accountability of Foreign Insiders |
| Sept. 21 | Kristin Drake (Dimensional), Dylan Eldridge (Vanguard), Kellie Huennekens (Capital Group), and Mike McCauley (Florida SBA) Institutional Investor Stewardship |
| Oct. 3 | Elisabeth Kempf (HBS), Alma Cohen (HLS) Political Ideology and International Capital Allocation, Gender and Politics in the Executive Suite |
| Oct. 3 | Raj Chetty (Harvard) Improving Equality of Opportunity in America: New Insights from Big Data |
| Oct. 6 | Kai Liekefett (Sidley) Activism Defense |
| Oct. 11 | Kobi Kastiel (HLS and Tel-Aviv), Lucian A. Bebchuk (HLS) Investor Social Responsibility Preferences, Stakeholder Capitalism in the Time of COVID |
| Oct. 11 | Haggai Porat (HLS) Behavior-Based Price Discrimination and Consumer Protection in the Age of Algorithms |
| Oct. 13 | William Ackman (Pershing Square) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Oct. 20 | Roberto Tallarita (HLS) Systemic Stewardship |
| Oct. 24 | Alma Cohen (HLS) Judging Under Public Pressure |
| Oct. 24 | Lauren Cohen (HBS) Anti-Bribery Enforcement |
| Oct. 24 | Joel Goldberg (PerkinElmer Corp) Sonoran-PerkinElmer |
| Oct. 26 | Brian Schorr (Trian Partners) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Oct. 27 | Theodore N. Mirvis (Wachtell) The Triumph of Takeover Defenses |
| Oct. 31 | Alon Brav (Duke Faqua School of Business) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Nov. 7 | Christine Jolls (Yale Law School) The Administrative Procedure Act and the Supreme Court |
| Nov. 14 | David Thesmar (MIT Sloan) and Luigi Zingales (Chicago Booth) Private Sanctions |
| Nov. 16 | Leo Strine Jr. (Wachtell) The Future of Corporate Law and Governance |
| Nov. 21 | Nick Zarcone (LKQ Corp) LKQ-Stahlgruber |
| Nov. 29 | Andrew Rossman and Christopher Kercher (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan) Musk-Twitter |
| Jan. 23 | Kathy Spier (HLS) and Albert Choi (University of Michigan) Liability for Non-Disclosure in Equity Financing |
| Jan. 24 | Mark Roe (Harvard Law School) and Charles Wang (Harvard Business School) Are Public Firms Disappearing? Corporate Law and Market Power Analyses |
| Jan. 30 | Shaoda Wang (Chicago)
Judicial Independence, Local Protectionism, and Economic Integration: Evidence from China |
| Jan. 31 | Yonathan Arbel (University of Alabama School of Law) and Michael Gilbert (University of Virginia School of Law)
Truth Bounties: A Market Solution to Fake News |
| Feb. 6 | Joel Goldberg (PerkinElmer)
Problems in Contract Design |
| Feb. 7 | Xinyu Hua (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) and Kathryn Spier (Harvard Law School)
Holding Platforms Liable |
| Feb. 13 | Jann Spiess (Stanford)
Unpacking the Black Box: Regulating Algorithmic Decisions |
| Feb. 14 | Steven Shavell (Harvard Law School)
An Alternative to the Basic Causal Requirement for Liability under the Negligence Rule |
| Feb. 21 | Keith Hylton (Boston University School of Law)
Waivers |
| Feb. 22 | Peter Weinberg (Perella Weinberg Partners)
SPACs v. IPOs |
| Feb. 28 | Michael Francus (Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School)
Designing Designer Bankruptcy |
| Mar. 6 | Scott Baker (Washington University)
A Theory of the Reasonable Person Standard |
| Mar. 7 | Louis Kaplow (Harvard Law School)
Horizontal Merger Analysis |
| Mar. 21 | Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School), Kobi Kastiel (Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law) and Anna Toniolo (Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School)
How Twitter Pushed Stakeholders under the Bus |
| Mar. 27 | Winnie van Dijk (Harvard Economics Dept.)
Measuring Effects of Conviction and Incarceration on Recidivism using Multi-Treatment Random Judge Designs |
| Mar. 28 | Jared Ellias (Harvard Law School)
Employee Bankruptcy Trauma |
| Apr. 3 | Vikrant Vig (Northwestern)
Decomposing Fire Sale Discounts |
| Apr. 3 | Mike Harmon, Brad Faris, Peter Labonski, and Gregory Robins (Latham & Watkins)
Understanding Transactional Documents (Part I) |
| Apr. 4 | Mike Harmon, Brad Faris, Peter Labonski, and Gregory Robins(Latham & Watkins)
Understanding Transactional Documents (Part II) |
| Apr. 4 | Zehua Li, Julian Nyarko (both of Stanford Law School) and Sarath Sanga (Harvard Law School)
The Terms of Freedom: Black Labor Contracts in the Reconstruction South |
| Apr. 11 | Caley Petrucci (Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School) and Guhan Subramanian (Harvard Law School; Harvard Business School)
ESG Amnesia in M&A Deals: The Case of Musk and Twitter |
| Apr. 11 | Mike Harmon, Brad Faris, Peter Labonski, and Gregory Robins (Latham & Watkins)
Pierre Foods |
| Apr. 12 | Bill Savitt (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
Musk-Twitter |
| Apr. 17 | Malcolm Baker (HBS) and Mark Egan (HBS)
How Do Investors Value ESG? |
| Apr. 18 | John Donohue, Samuel Cai, Matthew Bondy (all of Stanford Law School) and Philip Cook (Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy)
Why Does Right-to-Carry Cause Violent Crime to Increase? |
2021-22
| Sept. 7 | Oren Bar-Gill (HLS) Manipulation By Mislaid Priorities |
| Sep. 9 | Jesse Fried (HLS) China and the Rise of Law-Proof Insiders |
| Sept. 13 | Oren Bar-Gill (HLS) Manipulation by Mislaid Priorities |
| Sept. 14 | Holger Spamann (HLS) Law Matters – Less than We Thought |
| Sept. 16 | Harsh Marti (Warburg Pincus) Private Fund Structure |
| Sept. 20 | Zoë Cullen (HBS) The Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency |
| Sept. 21 | David Walker (BU) Tax Complexity and Technology |
| Sep. 22 | Oliver Hart (Harvard) and Luigi Zingales (Chicago Booth) Stakeholder Capitalism Driven by Investor Preferences |
| Sept. 22 | Kai Liekefett (Sidley) Activism Defense |
| Sept. 23 | Vivek Ramaswamy (Roivant Industries) Stakeholder Capitalism |
| Sep. 23 | Josh Cammaker (Wachtell) & Ben Kanovich (Bredin Prat) Shareholder Activism in the US and Europe |
| Sep. 27 | Shai Bernstein (HBS) Reputation Spillovers in Venture Capital and on How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flow to startups |
| Sept. 28 | Allen Ferrell (HLS) Household Securities Litigation |
| Sep. 29 | Einer Elhauge (HLS) The Case for Corporate Discretion to Advance Stakeholder Interests |
| Sep. 30 | Roberto Tallarita (HLS) Portfolio Primacy and Climate Change |
| Sept. 30 | Leo E. Strine, Jr. (Wachtell) Stakeholder Governance and Institutional Investor Stewardship |
| Oct. 5 | Jared Ellias (University of California) The Rise of Bankruptcy Directors |
| Oct. 7 | Mark Lebovitch (Bernstein Litowitz) Palantir |
| Oct. 12 | Luigi Zingales (Chicago Booth) What Purpose Do Corporations Purport? Evidence from Letters to Shareholders |
| Oct. 12 | Trung Nguyen (HBS) The Effectiveness of White Collar Crime Enforcement and on Learning from Corporate Fraud and Corporate Governance Spillovers |
| Oct. 13 | Robert Eccles (SASB & Oxford University) and Ethan Rouen (HBS) Corporate Purpose Statements and Integrated Reporting |
| Oct. 14 | Randy Baron (Robbins Geller) Tesla |
| Oct. 14 | Randy Baron (Robbins Geller) Tesla |
| Oct. 14 | John Finley (Blackstone) Registration (PE: The Business) |
| Oct. 18 | Lauren Cohen (HBS) The ESG-Innovation Disconnect and the Strategic Use of Titles |
| Oct. 19 | Henry Smith (HLS) Modeling Legal Modularity |
| Oct. 21 | Paul Singer (Elliott Management) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Oct. 21 | Jared Ellias (Hastings) The Rise of Bankruptcy Directors |
| Oct. 25 | Lawrence Summers (Harvard) Rethinking How We Score Capital Gains Tax Reform |
| Oct. 26 | Nick Stephanopoulos (HLS) Aligning Election Law |
| Oct. 27 | William Savitt (Wachtell) Stakeholder Governance in the Corporate Boardroom |
| Oct. 27 | Allison Herren Lee (SEC) The Work of the SEC |
| Oct. 28 | Rachelle Silverberg (Wachtell) NCI |
| Oct. 28 | Doug Madden (Warburg Pincus), Gwen Reinke (Vista), and Madeleine Russo (Blackstone RE) Control Environment (CCOs) |
| Nov. 1 | Kathy Spier (HLS) Holding Platforms Liable |
| Nov. 1 | Scott Hirst (BU) Shareholder Voting and Whether investors Care about Social Responsibility |
| Nov. 2 | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) On Stakeholder Capitalism |
| Nov. 4 | Ben Colton (State Street Global Advisors) & Carolina San Martin (Wellington Management) Institutional Investor Stewardship |
| Nov. 4 | Hester Peirce (SEC) ESG Disclosures |
| Nov. 4 | Jen Duggins (SEC) Exam |
| Nov. 8 | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) The Forgotten Stakeholder |
| Nov. 9 | Crystal Yang (HLS) The Impact of Criminal Records on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Outcomes |
| Nov. 10 | Jonas Kron (Trillium Asset Management), Leslie Samuelrich (Green Century Funds), Mari Schwartzer (NorthStar Asset Management), and Tim Smith (Boston Trust Walden) Socially Responsible Investment and Stewardship |
| Nov. 10 | William Ackman (Pershing Square) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Nov. 11 | Ethan Klingsberg and Meredith Kotler (Freshfields) Board Oversight and Shareholder Demands for Books and Records |
| Nov. 11 | Chris Green (Bain), Christina Lema (Vista), Neena Reddy (Blue Owl), and Alex Benjamin (Cerberus) Legal Environment (GCs) |
| Nov. 15 | Mihir Desai (HLS/HBS) A Better Way to Measure Shareholder Returns and Managerial Performance |
| Nov. 16 | Scott Hirst (BU) Investor Initiation in Corporate Governance |
| Nov. 18 | John P. Del Monaco and Matt Solum (Kirkland & Ellis) Mindbody |
| Nov. 23 | Louis Kaplow (HLS) Replacing the Structural Presumption |
| Nov. 30 | Caley Petrucci (HLS) Equal Treatment Agreements: Theory, Evidence & Policy |
| Dec. 2 | Y. Carson Zhou and John L. Hardiman (Sullivan & Cromwell) Nevada |
2020-2021
| Sep. 8 | Howell Jackson (HLS) and Steven Schwarcz (Duke Law) Protecting Financial Stability: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic |
| Sep. 10 | Karen Karniol-Tambou (Bridgewater) and Vivian Lau (One Tusk) What Private Funds Do |
| Sep. 14 | Christian Leuz (Chicago Booth) Adoption of CSR and Sustainability Reporting Standards: Economic Analysis and Review |
| Sep. 16 | Meredith Kotler and Ethan Klingsberg (Freshfields) Family Dollar Merger Litigation |
| Sep. 17 | Stephen M. Vine (Akin Gump) Basic Fund Structure |
| Sep. 17 | Scott Barshay (Paul Weiss) and Sabastian Niles (Wachtell Lipton) Short-Termism |
| Sep. 23 | Michal Barzuza (Virginia) Index Funds’ ESG Stewardship |
| Sep. 24 | Michael Schmidtberger (Sidley) Fund Documents & Terms |
| Sep. 24 | Ken Frazier (Merck) The (Inevitable) Intersection of Business & Social Issues/Politics |
| Sep. 29 | Lisa Bernstein (University of Chicago Law) & Brad Peterson (Mayer Brown) Managerial Contracting: A Preliminary Study |
| Sep. 30 | Randy Baron (Robbins Geller) In re PLX Technology, Inc. Stockholders Litigation |
| Oct. 1 | Ted Mirvis and Sabastian Niles (Wachtell Lipton) M&A and Corporate Governance |
| Oct. 5 | Oliver Hart (Harvard) and Luigi Zingales (Chicago Booth) Exit vs. Voice |
| Oct. 7 | Robert J. Jackson, Jr. (NYU) The Work of the SEC |
| Oct. 7 | Doru Gavril (Freshfields) Diversity Litigation |
| Oct. 8 | Leo E. Strine, Reilly S. Steel, and Kirby M. Smith (Wachtell Lipton) Corporate Governance and ESG |
| Oct. 8 | Mo Cowan (GE) and Desiree Ralls-Morrison (Boston Scientific) The Role of Business in Fighting Racism and Inequality |
| Oct. 8 | Christoph Englisch (EnTrust Permal), Mark Steed and Jennifer Carlino (Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System) Institutional Investor Concerns |
| Oct. 14 | Alex Edmans (LBS), Oliver Hart (Harvard), and Martin Lipton (Wachtell Lipton) Stakeholder Capitalism |
| Oct. 14 | Joel Friedlander (Friedlander Gorris) Fresh Market |
| Oct. 15 | Kai Liekefett (Sidley) and Greg Taxin (Spotlight) Activism Defense |
| Oct. 15 | Jack Brennan (Vanguard) and David Curran (Paul Weiss) Isn’t ESG Every Company’s Business? |
| Oct. 15 | Paul Roth (Schulte Roth & Zabel) and Joel Press (Press Management) Management Company Operations |
| Oct. 21 | Joshua S. Friedman (Canyon Partners) Law and Investment Decisions |
| Oct. 21 | David Berger (Wilson Sonsini) Dual Class and Controlling Shareholder Litigation |
| Oct. 22 | Amber Kagan (GE) and Al Rosa (Google) Organizational Integrity |
| Oct. 22 | Vijay Mohan (Sixth Street) and Jason Dillow (Bardin Hill) Investment Transactions |
| Oct. 28 | David Berger (Wilson Sonsini) WeWork |
| Oct. 28 | Paul Singer (Elliott Management) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Oct. 29 | Isaac Corre (Governors Lane), Matthew Mark, and David Millstone (Standard Industries) Using Legal Knowledge to Make Investment Decisions |
| Oct. 29 | Brad S. Karp (Paul Weiss) Relationships with the Financial Services Industry |
| Nov. 5 | Sandra Moser (Morgan Lewis) Individual Versus Organizational Accountability |
| Nov. 10 | Jill Fisch (UPenn) & Steven Davidoff Solomon (Berkeley) Should Corporations Have a Purpose? |
| Nov. 11 | Charles Elson (University of Delaware) and Ed Rock (NYU) Director Duties Toward Stakeholders |
| Nov. 11 | Josh Cammaker (Wachtell Lipton) and Ben Kanovich (Bredin Prat) Icahn-Occidental |
| Nov. 11 | Paul Cellupica (SEC) Recent Developments at the SEC |
| Nov. 12 | Ryan VanGrack (Citadel) and Chris Weideman (Apollo) Funds’ Roles in Markets |
| Nov. 16 | Manisha Padi (Berkeley) Fiduciary Duty and the Market for Financial Advice |
| Nov. 17 | Sarah Reed (RA Capital) Venture Capital |
| Nov. 18 | Vivek Ramaswamy (Roivant Sciences) Stakeholder Capitalism |
| Nov. 18 | Mark Lebovitch (BLB&G) GCI Liberty/Liberty Broadband merger |
| Nov. 19 | Matt DiGuiseppe (State Street), Tom Elliott (Capital Group), and Timothy Smith (Boston Trust Walden) Investor Stewardship |
| Nov. 19 | Marc Pillemer (Blackstone) and Johannes Kaps (HS Group) Seeding & Manager M&A |
| Nov. 19 | Joel Goldberg (PerkinElmer) Problems in Contract Design |
| Nov. 24 | Eric Seiler (Friedman Kaplan), Tariq Mundiya (Wilkie Farr) and Dennis Friedman (Gibson Dunn) Dealmaking in Times of Crisis |
| Jan. 12 | Jeremy Fine, Christian Lymn, and Brendan Herron (Uber) Doing the Deal – Deal Process in Practice |
| Jan. 13 | Guhan Subramanian (HLS) Understanding and Negotiating Merger Agreements |
| Jan. 25 | David Hirshleifer (University of California-Irvine) Social Transmission |
| Jan. 25 | David Hirshleifer (University of California-Irvine) Social Transmission |
| Jan. 26 | Louis Kaplow (HLS) Replacing the Structural Presumption |
| Jan. 27 | Joshua Mitts (Columbia Business School) Insider Trading and Index Fund Behavior |
| Feb. 1 | Itay Goldstein (The Wharton School) The Real Effects of Modern Information Technologies |
| Feb. 1 | Itay Goldstein (The Wharton School) The Real Effects of Modern Information Technologies |
| Feb. 2 | Allison Hoffman (UPenn Law School), Howell Jackson (HLS) & Amy Monahan (University of Minnesota Law School) A White Paper on a Public Option for Employers |
| Feb. 8 | Nadya Malenko (University of Michigan) Corporate Governance in the Presence of Active and Passive Delegated Investment |
| Feb. 8 | Nadya Malenko (University of Michigan) Corporate Governance in the Presence of Active and Passive Delegated Investment |
| Feb. 8 | Maya Zerjal Fink (Arnold Porter) Debtor-Creditor and Intercreditor Issues |
| Feb. 9 | Michael Klausner (Stanford Law) & Michael Ohlrogge (NYU Law) A Sober Look at SPACs |
| Feb. 10 | Emiliano Catan (NYU) Party Structure of Mutual Funds |
| Feb. 10 | Andrew Weissmann (Jenner & Block) Government Criminal Investigations |
| Feb. 16 | Joel Goldberg (PerkinElmer) Problems in Contract Design |
| Feb. 16 | Henry Smith (HLS) Equity as Meta-Law |
| Feb. 16 | Daniel Goodman (Cerberus Capital Management) Fraudulent Transfers |
| Feb. 17 | Kathryn Ruemmler (Goldman Sachs) Corporate Internal Investigations |
| Feb. 17 | Robert J. Jackson, Jr. (NYU) Broker Behavior |
| Feb. 17 | Denis McInerney (David Polk) Corporate Criminal Trials and Constitutional Rights |
| Feb. 22 | Alma Cohen (HLS) Politics and Gender in the Executive Suite |
| Feb. 23 | Jesse Fried (HLS) Rights Offers and Delaware Law |
| Mar. 2 | Mark Roe (HLS) Corporate Purpose and Corporate Competition |
| Mar. 3 | Robert Bartlett (Berkley) Consumer Lending Discrimination and Algorithmic Discrimination |
| Mar. 8 | Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics) The Morality of Markets and the Nature of Competition |
| Mar. 9 | Yun-chien Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) & Daniel Klerman (USC Law School) Settlement Rates Around the World |
| Mar. 9 | Matthew Hammond (DOJ Antitrust Division) Walmart, Amazon and Economies of Scale and Scope |
| Mar. 10 | Professor Jonah Gelbach (Berkley) Statistical Significance in Securities Fraud Litigation. |
| Mar. 22 | Philip Bond (University of Washington) Silence Is Safest: Non-Disclosure When the Audience’s Preferences Are Uncertain |
| Mar. 22 | Mike Harmon, Brad Faris, Peter Labonski, and Gregory Robins (Latham & Watkins) Understanding Transactional Documents |
| Mar. 23 | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) For Whom Corporate Leaders Bargain |
| Mar. 24 | Natasha Sarin (UPenn) Corporate Crime and Punishment |
| Mar. 24 | Eugene Soltes (HBR) Corporate Compliance Programs |
| Mar. 24 | Katy Choo (General Electric) Corporate Compliance Programs |
| Mar. 30 | Mark Ramseyer (HLS) & Eric Rasmusen (Indiana University) Ostracism in Japan |
| Mar. 30 | Travis Laster (Delaware Court of Chancery) Topics in Corporate Law |
| Apr. 5 | Matthew Hammond (DOJ Antitrust Division) Lysine, Antitrust, and Collusion |
| Apr. 6 | Kyle Rozema (Washington University) Does Discipline Decrease Police Misconduct? Evidence from Chicago Civilian Allegations |
| Apr. 7 | Leo Strine (Wachtell Lipton) Fiduciary Duties & ESG |
| Apr. 12 | Patrick Bolton (Columbia Business School) Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk |
| Apr. 13 | Daniel Kelly (Notre Dame School of Law) Double Deterrence: On Disgorgement and Punitive Damages in Trust Law |
| Apr. 19 | Evan K Rose (Microsoft) How Does Incarceration Affect Crime? Estimating the Dose-Response Function |
| Apr. 20 | Guhan Subramanian (HLS & HBS) & Caley Petrucci Deals in the Time of Pandemic |
| Apr. 20 | Dennis J. Friedman (Gibson Dunn) and Tariq Mundiya (Wilkie Farr & Gallagher) Dealmaking in a Volatile Environment |
2019-2020
| 9/4/2019 | Jeffrey Katz (Ropes & Gray)
OTK v. Kalisman |
| 9/10/2019 | Kenneth C. Frazier (Merck)
The (Inevitable) Intersection Of Business |
| 9/11/2019 | Jesse Fried (HLS)
Stock Buybacks and Short-Termism |
| 9/11/2019 | Charles Wang (HBS)
Short-Termism and Capital Flows |
| 9/11/2019 | Scott Hirst (BU)
Index Fund Stewardship |
| 9/12/2019 | Andrew Wright and John O’Neil (Kirkland & Ellis)
Structuring an Onshore Private Fund |
| 9/16/2019 | Josh Lerner (HBS)
The Social Impact of Private Equity |
| 9/18/2019 | Mark Lebovitch (Bernstein Litowitz)
Straight Path |
| 9/18/2019 | Eugene Soltes (HBS)
Evidence from SEC Financial Fraud Investigations |
| 9/19/2019 | Marcel Kahan (NYU)
Index Funds and Corporate Governance |
| 9/23/2019 | Robin Lee (Harvard)
Will the Market Fix the Market? A Theory of Stock |
| 9/24/2019 | Sabastian V. Niles (Wachtell Lipton)
The Purpose(S) of Corporations |
| 9/25/2019 | Jerome Fortinsky (Shearman & Sterling)
Representing PRC-Based Companies in US |
| 9/25/2019 | Kai H.E. Liekefett (Sidley Austin)
Defending Against Hedge Fund Activists |
| 9/25/2019 | Tyler Gellasch (Healthy Markets)
The JOBS Act: The Cost of Going Public |
| 10/2/2019 | Peter Welsh & Martin Crisp (Ropes & Gray)
Constituency Statutes and Corporate Stakeholders |
| 10/2/2019 | Georgios Serafeim (Columbia Law School)
Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy? |
| 10/2/2019 | Gary Gensler (MIT Sloan)
Bitcoin, Initial Coin Offerings, |
| 10/3/2019 | Ted Mirvis (Wachtell Lipton)
M&A and Corporate Governance |
| 10/8/2019 | Michal Barzuza (Virginia)
Long-Term Bias |
| 10/8/2019 | Eve Tahmincioglu (Directors & Boards Magazine)
Corporate Cultures – Aren’t Integrity & ESG Every Company’s Business? |
| 10/9/2019 | Michael Piwowar (Milken Institute)
Emerging Issues in Public Markets |
| 10/16/2019 | Robert Jackson, Jr. (SEC & NYU)
Does Revlon Matter? |
| 10/16/2019 | David Webber (BU)
The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon |
| 10/16/2019 | Robert Jackson, Jr. (SEC & NYU)
The Work of the SEC |
| 10/17/2019 | Sean Griffith (Fordham)
Mutual Funds and Shareholder Litigation |
| 10/21/2019 | Elisabeth Kempf (Chicago)
Litigating Innovation Evidence from Securities Class Action Lawsuits |
| 10/22/2019 | David Berger (Wilson Sonsini)
Dual Class |
| 10/23/2019 | Meredith Kotler (Cleary Gottlieb)
CBS-National Amusements |
| 10/23/2019 | Alon Brav (Duke School of Business)
Proxy fights: How Mutual Fund Voting Shapes Proxy Contests |
| 10/28/2019 | David Pitofsky (News Corp)
Conducting an Internal Investigation |
| 10/30/2019 | Scott Hirst (BU)
The Rise of Index Funds |
| 10/31/2019 | Jennifer Duggins (SEC)
Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts |
| 11/4/2019 | F. Joseph Warin (Gibson Dunn)
Corporate Criminal Trials/Sentencing |
| 11/6/2019 | Doug Eby (Cambridge Science)
Biotech startups |
| 11/6/2019 | Jim Kreissman (Simpson Thacher)
U.S.-China Cross-border Litigation |
| 11/7/2019 | Brian Schorr (Trian Partners)
Hedge Fund Activism |
| 11/8/2019 | Charlie Penner (JANA)
JANA’s ESG Fund |
| 11/13/2019 | Robert Jackson, Jr. (SEC & NYU)
Trading Markets: What Do We Do About Big Data and Public Policy? |
| 11/19/2019 | Steven Solomon (Berkeley)
Does Revlon Matter? An Empirical and Theoretical Study |
| 11/19/2019 | Susan Rohol (Warner Brothers Entertainment) The Duties of Doing Business with Data |
| 11/19/2019 | Steven Solomon (Berkeley)
Does Revlon Matter? An Empirical and Theoretical Study |
| 11/19/2019 | John P. Del Monaco (Kirkland & Ellis)
Walworth vs. Mu Sigma Litigation |
| 11/20/2019 | Brad Karp (Paul Weiss)
Nissan/Ghosn |
| 11/21/2019 | Steve Peikin (SEC)
Securities Enforcement Issues |
| 11/21/2019 | Kent Greenfield (BU)
Corporations are People Too |
| 11/21/2019 | Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (Stetson)
Corporate Citizen? An Argument for the Separation |
| 1/28/2020 | Edward Fox (Michigan)
Is There a Delaware Effect for Controlled Firms? |
| 2/4/2020 | Mark Roe (HLS)
The Power of the Narrative in Corporate Law |
| 2/24/2020 | Mike Harmon (formerly Oaktree Capital), Johan Brigham, Peter Labonski, & Greg Robins (Latham & Watkins)Understanding Transactional Documents |
| 3/2020 | Madison Condon (Boston University)
Climate Change and the Big Three |
| 3/2/2020 | Raffaella Sadun (HBS)
Firm Boundaries and Delegation |
| 4/7/2020 | Leo Strine (HLS)
Dell MBO |
| 4/14/2020 | Howell Jackson (HLS)
Pandemics and Systemic Financial Risk |
| 4/21/2020 | Lisa Bernstein (Chicago)
Managerial Contracting: A Preliminary Study |
2018-2019
| 9/4/2018 | Mark Roe (HLS) Stock Market Short-Termism’s Impact |
| 9/12/2018 | Charles Wang (HBS) Staggered Boards/Index Creation and Corporate Behavior |
| 9/13/2018 | Ben Kanovitch (Bredin Prat) & Josh Cammaker (Wachtell Lipton) Transatlantic Shareholder Activism |
| 9/20/2018 | Matt Schoenfeld (Burford Capital) Appraisal Litigation in Delaware |
| 9/24/2018 | Vicente Cuñat (London School of Economics) Price and Probability: Decomposing the Effects of Anti-takeover Provisions |
| 9/26/2018 | Zohar Goshen (Columbia) Principal Costs / The Death of Corporate Law |
| 9/26/2018 | Lauren Cohen (HBS) Buying the Verdict/Lazy Prices: |
| 9/27/2018 | Jeffrey Katz (Ropes & Gray) OTK v. Kalisman |
| 10/1/2018 | Jack Jacobs (Sidley Austin), Gil Sparks (MNAT), Dave McBride (Young Conaway), Larry Hamermesh (Penn) & Guhan Subramanian (HLS) Mergers & Acquisitions: Who Decides? |
| 10/1/2018 | Ryan Bubb (NYU) The Party Structure of Mutual Funds |
| 10/3/2018 | Jonathan Macey (Yale) Citizens United and the Corporation |
| 10/3/2018 | Joshua Mitts (Columbia) Informed Trading |
| 10/4/2018 | Matthew Mallow (BlackRock) Index Fund Stewardship |
| 10/4/2018 | Jane Goldstein (Ropes & Gray) Current Issues in Corporate Governance |
| 10/10/2018 | Sam Glasscock III (Delaware Chancery Court) The Delaware Chancery Court |
| 10/11/2018 | Marc Goldstein (ISS) Proxy Advisors |
| 10/15/2018 | Jim Woolery (King & Spalding), Bill Lafferty (Morris Nichols), Ted Mirvis (Wachtell Lipton), Paul Rowe (Wachtell Lipton) & Gary A. Bornstein (Cravath) The Death of “Enhanced” Scrutiny? |
| 10/22/2018 | John Finley (Blackstone), Marni Lerner (Simpson Thacher) & Gary Barancik (PWP Partners) Contract v. Fiduciary Duty Principles? Buy-Side Deal Protections |
| 10/22/2018 | Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard) Shadow Banking and the Four Pillars of Traditional Financial Intermediation |
| 10/23/2018 | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) and Scott Hirst (BU) Index Funds and the Future of Corporate Governance: Theory, Evidence, and Policy |
| 10/25/2018 | Kai Liekefett (Sidley Austin) & Sabastian Niles (Wachtell Lipton) Defending Against Activist Hedge Funds |
| 10/25/2018 | Jim Kreissman (Simpson Thacher) Cross-border M&A Litigation |
| 10/26/2018 | Brian Schorr (Trian Partners) Hedge Fund Activism: The Perspective of Brian Schorr |
| 10/29/2018 | Lande Alexandra Spottswood (Vinson & Elkins), Brandon Van Dyke (Skadden Arps) & Laura Knoll (Skadden Arps) The Merger Agreement as a Contract |
| 10/29/2018 | Doron Levit (Wharton) Myopic Shareholders |
| 10/31/2018 | Ted Mirvis (Wachtell Lipton) M&A and Corporate Governance: The Perspective of Ted Mirvis |
| 10/31/2018 | Colleen Honigsberg (Stanford) & Robert Jackson (SEC) Activist Directors/Misbehaving Brokers: |
| 11/1/2018 | Stuart Grant (Grant & Eisenhofer) Plaintiff Litigation and Delaware Law: The Perspective of Stuart Grant |
| 11/5/2018 | Rick Climan (Hogan Lovell) The Merger Agreement as a Contract |
| 11/7/2018 | Jesse Fried (HLS) Short Termism |
| 11/8/2018 | Sabastian Niles (Wachtell Lipton) Defending Against Short-Sellers |
| 11/12/2018 | Ronald Masulis (University of New South Wales) Mitigating Effects of Gender Diverse Boards |
| 11/12/2018 | Lou Kling (Skadden Arps) & Eileen Nugent (Skadden Arps) Sell Side Deal Protections: How Can You Get What You Want or at Least What You Need? |
| 11/14/2018 | Issac Corre (Governors Lane) & David Millstone (Standard Industries) Law and Investment Decisions |
| 11/14/2018 | Nickolay Gantchev (SMU) Shareholder Democracy/Empire Building: |
| 11/19/2018 | Fabrizio Ferri (U. of Miami) Investors’ Perceptions of Activism via Voting: Evidence from Contentious Shareholder Meetings |
| 11/19/2018 | Robert Clark (HLS), Faiza Saeed (Cravath), Paul Cappuccio (Warner Media Group), Joe Frumkin (Sullivan and Cromwell), & Priya Dogra (Warner Media Group) A Real World Example of The Legal and Business Challenges Created By Regulatory Risks and Delays: The Time-Warner-AT&T Merger |
| 11/20/2018 | Jesse Fried (HLS) & Charles C.Y. Wang (HBS) Short-Termism and Capital Flows |
| 11/26/2018 | David Katz (Wachtell Lipton) & Scott Simpson (Skadden Arps) Nuts and Bolts of Comparative US/EU M&A Law |
| 12/3/2018 | Andre G. Bouchard (Delaware Court of Chancery), Bill Lafferty (Morris Nichols), Tariq Mundiya (Willkie) & James Stynes (Deutsche Bank) The Importance of Integrity and Good Faith in Corporate Law |
| 1/29/2019 | Guhan Subramanian (HLS) and Annie Zhao (HBS) Go-Shops Revisited |
| 2/4/2019 | Karen Karniol-Tambour (Bridgewater) & Vivian Lau (One Tusk) What Does a Fund Do? |
| 2/12/2019 | Joel Goldberg (PerkinElmer) Problems in Contract Design: Incentives |
| 2/12/2019 | Jesse Fried (HLS) and Ehud Kamar (Tel Aviv) Alibaba and the Rise of Law-Proof Insiders |
| 2/18/2019 | Michael Gerstenzang (Cleary Gottlieb) & Michael Schmidtberger (Sidley Austin) Fund Documents & Terms |
| 2/19/2019 | Lisa Bernstein (University of Chicago) Contract Governance in Small World Networks: The Case of the Maghribi Traders |
| 2/25/2019 | Thomas A. Hickey III (Foley & Lardner) & Sharmila Kassam (Employees Retirement System of Texas) Fund Documents & Terms: Institutional Investor Concerns |
| 2/25/2019 | Mike Harmon (formerly Oaktree Capital), Brad Faris (Peter Labonski) & Greg Robins (Latham) Understanding Transactional Documents |
| 2/25/2019 | Sarath Sanga (Northwestern) Network Effects in Corporate Governance |
| 2/26/2019 | Oren Bar-Gill (HLS) and Omri Ben-Shahar (University of Chicago) An Information-Costs Theory of Default Rules |
| 3/11/2019 | Jason Dillow (Bardin Hill), Vijay Mohan (TPG) & Timothy D. Rampe (Lovell Minnick) Investment Transactions |
| 3/11/2019 | Oliver Hart (Harvard) Overcoming Contractual Incompleteness: The Role of Guiding Principles |
| 3/12/2019 | C. Scott Hemphill (NYU) and Marcel Kahan (NYU) The Strategies of Anticompetitive Common Ownership |
| 3/25/2019 | Robert J. Jackson, Jr. (SEC) Funds’ Role in the Economy |
| 3/25/2019 | Raymond Kluender (MIT) The Economic Consequences of Bankruptcy Reform |
| 3/26/2019 | Holger Spamann (HLS) Indirect Investor Protection |
| 4/2/2019 | Tom Bayliss (Abrams & Bayliss) & Bill Savitt (Wachtell Lipton) Starz-Lions Gate |
| 4/3/2019 | Doug Leeds (EAT Club) Finance Process; Pitching Your Business: The Executive Summary |
| 4/8/2019 | Birger Wernerfelt (MIT) The Existence and Nature of Multi-Business Firms: Double Specialization and Neighboring Businesses |
| 4/11/2019 | Jeff Bussgang (Flybridge Capital) & Bijan Sabet (Spark Capital) VC negotiations |
| 4/15/2019 | Paul Meister (Revlon) & Linda Lin (HLS) Buyouts by Controlling Shareholders: Olenik; MFW |
| 4/15/2019 | Matthew Shaffer (HBS) Truth and Bias in M&A Target Valuations: Appraising the Appraisals |
| 4/22/2019 | Chris Hadley (Berkshire) US Anesthesia-Berkshire Partners |
2017-2018
| Apr. 12 | Ted Mirvis (Wachtell) Corporations |
| Apr. 11 | Robert J. Jackson, Jr. (SEC)
SEC Policymaking |
| Apr. 10 | Dhammika Dharmapala (Chicago) The Impact of Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility |
| Apr. 9 | Nickolay Gantchev (SMU Cox School of Business) Do Activists Turn Bad Bidders into Good Acquirers? |
| Apr. 6 | Chris Leich, Steve Shay & Room Watson (Ropes & Gray) Mergers & Acquisitions |
| Apr. 5 | Bill Anderson (Evercore) & Jim Rossman (Lazard) Activism Defense |
| Apr. 4 | Paul Hilal (Mantle Ridge LP) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Apr. 3 | Menesh Patel (Columbia) Does Insider Trading Law Change Behavior? |
| Mar. 29 | Eduardo Gallardo (Gibson Dunn), Amy Park (Skadden) Poison Pills |
| Mar. 29 | Vinita Sithapathy & Matthew Herman (Freshfields) Mergers & Acquisitions |
| Mar. 28 | Ben Heineman (HLS) Corporate Governance and the Inside Counsel |
| Mar. 27 | John C. Coffee, Jr. (Columbia) The Agency Cost of Activism |
| Mar. 22 | Susan Baker (Trillium), Constantina Bichta (BCAM), Chris Davis (Ceres), Matt DiGuiseppe (SSGA), & Guy Rolnik (Chicago Booth School of Business) Corporate Social Responsibility |
| Mar. 21 | Richard Brand (Cadwalader) & Kai Liekefett (Sidley) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Mar. 20 | Chris Mann (Sullivan & Cromwell) Project Finance |
| Mar. 7 | Jesse Fried (HLS) Short-Termism and Capital Flows |
| Mar. 1 | Einer Elhauge (HLS) Horizontal Shareholding |
| Feb. 28 | Oliver Hart (Harvard) Companies Should Maximize Shareholder Welfare Not Market Value |
| Feb. 27 | Robert Sitkoff (HLS) When May a Fiduciary Engage in Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing? |
| Feb. 26 | Johnathan Robertson (TG Capital)
Private Equity |
| Feb. 22 | Guhan Subramanian (HLS) Go-Shops |
| Feb. 22 | Melissa Sawyer, Joe Matelis, Samantha Hynes (Sullivan & Cromwell) Mergers & Acquisitions |
| Feb. 21 | Joshua Mitts (Columbia Law) Activist Directors |
| Feb. 13 | John Coates (HLS) Reverse Termination Fees in M&A |
| Feb. 6 | Cindy Alexander (George Mason) Does Conviction Matter? The Reputational and Collateral Effects of Corporate Crime |
| Jan. 31 | Sean Doherty (Bain Capital) Mergers & Acquisitions |
| Jan. 29 | Joshua Angrist (MIT) Uber vs. Taxi |
| Jan. 22 | Nicole Boyson (Northeastern) Hostile Resistance to Hedge Fund Activism |
| Dec. 4 | David Katz (Wachtell), Scott Simpson (Skadden)
Nuts and Bolts of Comparative US/EU M&A Law |
| Nov. 28 | Rachelle Silverberg (Wachtell)
New Trends in M&A Litigation |
| Nov. 27 | Charles Wang (Harvard) Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Evidence from the Massachusetts Natural Experiment |
| Nov. 21 | Kobi Kastiel (HLS) The Perils of Small-Minority Controllers |
| Nov. 13 | Rick Climan (Hogan Lovells)
The Merger Agreement As A Contract II |
| Nov. 7 | John Armour (Oxford)
The Promise and Perils of Crowdfunding: Between Corporate Finance and Consumer Contracts |
| Nov. 7 | Eduardo Gallardo (Gibson Dunn), Keith Meister(Corvex) Commonwealth REIT Consent Solicitation |
| Nov. 6 | Brandon Van Dyke (Skadden), Laura Knoll (Skadden) The Merger Agreement as a Contract I |
| Oct. 31 | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS)
Controlling Shareholders |
| Oct. 31 | Joel Friedlander (Friedlander & Gorris) Stockholder Litigation |
| Oct. 30 | Bill Lafferty (MNAT), Bill Savitt (Wachtell), Tariq Mundiya (Willkie, Farr & Gallagher), Josh Targoff (Third Point), Brian Schorr (Trian Partners) The Current State Of Play? |
| Oct. 24 | Allison Bennington (ValueAct) Activism and Investor Stewardship |
| Oct. 17 | Randy Baron (Robbins Geller)
In re Dole Food Co. Inc Stockholder Litigation |
| Oct. 3 | Scott Hirst (HLS) Universal Proxies; Private Ordering in Securities Regulation |
| Sept. 26 | Jeffrey Katz and Annie Hancock (Ropes & Gray), Jesse Boodoo (Mass AG)
OTK v. Kalisman |
| Sept. 19 | Jonah Gelbach (University of Pennsylvania) The Logic and Limits of Event Studies in Securities Fraud Litigation |
| Sept. 19 | Eugene Soltes (HBS) White Collar Crime and Corporate Compliance Programs |
| Sept. 18 | Richard Holden (UNSW/Harvard) Network Capital |
| Sept. 12 | Ben Kanovitch (Bredin Prat), Josh Cammaker (Wachtell) Transatlantic Shareholder Activism |
| Sept. 12 | Addam Gerchen (President, Burford Capital) Litigation Finance/Appraisal Arbitrage in Delaware |
2016-2017
| Apr. 20 | Stan Ragalevsky (K&L Gates) Corporations |
| Apr. 18 | Allen Ferrell (HLS) and Will Powley (MIT) Litigation Profiles of Firms |
| Apr. 6 | Paul Singer Hedge Fund Strategies’ Externalities, Positive and Negative |
| Mar. 31 | Michele Johnson (Latham) Corporations |
| Mar. 30 | Kevin O’Connor (Point72 Asset Management) Insider Trading and Risk Management |
| Mar. 23 | Sir Paul Tucker (The Systemic Risk Council) Hedge Funds and Systemic Risk |
| Mar. 20 | Jonas Svedlund (GE Ventures) Corporate Venture Capitalists: GE Ventures as a Case Study |
| Apr. 13 | Paul N. Roth (Schulte Roth & Zabel), Michael A. Gerstenzang (Cleary Gottlieb) Hedge Funds’ Myriad Intersections with the Financial Services Industry |
| Mar. 9 | Stephen M. Vine (Akin Gump) Why hedge funds look like they do; hedge fund regulation |
| Mar. 1 | Charlie Wang (HBS) Introduction to Empirical Methods |
| Feb. 9 | Marcel Kahan (NYU) Introduction to Empirical Methods |
| Jan. 17 | Dr. David Hung (Medivation) Takeovers in the Target’s Boardroom |
| Jan. 13 | Norman Chambers (NCI Building) Duress and Distress Transactions |
| Jan. 9 | David Lenhardt (PetSmart) LBO’s and Going-Private Transactions |
| Dec. 5 | James Stynes (Deutsche Bank), Howard Ellin (Skadden Arps) Financial Advisors: Can’t Live With Em, Can’t Live Without Em? |
| Nov. 29 | David Katz (Wachtell Lipton), Toby Myerson (Paul Weiss), Scott Simpson (Skadden Arps) Cross-Border Deals in the EU |
| Nov. 28 | David Katz (Wachtell Lipton), Toby Myerson (Paul Weiss), Scott Simpson (Skadden Arps) Nuts and Bolts of Comparative US/EU M&A Law |
| Nov. 21 | Bill Lafferty (MNAT), Bill Savitt (Wachtell Lipton), Tariq Mundiya (Willkie, Farr & Gallagher), Josh Targoff (Third Point), Brian Schorr (Trian Partners) How Shareholder Activists Stimulate M&A Activity |
| Nov. 14 | Lou Kling (Skadden Arps), Eileen Nugent (Skadden Arps), Faiza Saeed (Cravath), Rob Spatt (Simpson Thacher) Certainty versus Nominal Price |
| Nov. 8 | Rick Climan (Weil Gotshal) The Merger Agreement As A Contract II |
| Nov. 7 | Brandon Van Dyke (Skadden Arps), Lande Spottswood (Vinson & Elkins) The Merger Agreement as a Contract |
| Oct. 26 | Greg Taxin (Spotlight Advisors) Hedge Fund Activism |
| Oct. 24 | John Finley (Blackstone), Susan Hassan (Valor Equity Partners), Marni Lerner (Simpson Thacher) Contract v. Fiduciary Duty Principles? Deal Protections |
| Oct. 20 | Brian Cheffins (University of Cambridge) The Transformation of the Public Company |
| Oct. 13 | Rob Jackson (Columbia Law School) The Value of Takeover Defenses |
| Oct. 6 | Stephen Davis (HLS) What They Do With Your Money |
| Oct. 5 | Josh Mitts (Columbia Business School) Securities Disclosures Paula Price, Bill Mostyn and Warren McFarlan Director’s Panel |
| Sep. 28 | Ben Heineman Corporate Governance and the Inside Counsel |
| Sep. 15 | Ted Mirvis (Wachtell Lipton) The Law and Director’s Duties |
| Sep. 2 | Rakhi Kumar (State Street Global Advisors) Nature of U.S. Shareholders and Their Goals |
2015-2016
| Apr. 21 | Peter Lattman (The New York Times)
The Future of the Fund Industry |
| Rob Wagman, President & CEO, Walter Hanley, Head of M&A & Victor Casini, General Counsel (LKQ Corp)
Cross-Border Acquisitions: LKQ |
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| Apr. 18 | Oren Sussman (Said Business School)
The Privatization of Bankruptcy: Evidence from Financial Distress in the Shipping Industry |
| Steven Rosenblum (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
Management Buyouts: Dell MBO |
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| Derrick Farrell (Faruqi & Faruqi & Shannon Hopkins, Levi & Korsinsky)
Deal Presentation: Comverge-HIG |
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| Eileen Nugent & David Rievman( Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom)
Inversions: Endo-Paladin |
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| Apr. 7 | Solomon Noh (Shearman & Sterling); Jason Dillow (Halcyon Capital Management)
The Roles of Internal and External Counsel With Respect To Key Investment Strategies Employed By Large Hedge Funds |
| Garrett B. Moritz (Seitz Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP); Joe Podraza (Sprague & Sprauge)
Deal Process Design: The Sale of the Philadelphia Inquirer |
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| Eduardo Gallardo & Brian Lutz, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Hostile Takeovers: Depomed-Horizon |
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| Mar. 31 | James McGovern (United States Attorney’s Office); John Nathanson (Shearman & Sterling)
Regulatory Concerns, Including Insider Trading |
| Mar. 29 | Michal Barzuza (Virginia)
Adverse Selection in Corporate Governance Choices |
| Mar. 10 | Paul N. Roth (Schulte Roth & Zabel)
Establishment and Operation of Management Companies and Partnerships |
| Mar. 8 | Arevik Avedian (Harvard)
Corporate Governance and the Creation of the SEC |
| Feb. 4 | Stephen M. Vine (Akin Gump)
Structure of Funds |
| Feb. 2 | Guhan Subramanian (HLS)
Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts |
| Feb. 1 | Kenneth Ahern (USC)
Information Networks: Evidence from Illegal Insider Trading Tips |
| Dec. 7 | Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard (DE Court of Chancery), James C. Morphy (Sullivan Cromwell)
Role Reversal: What Looks Different From The Other Side Of The Bench? |
| Dec. 2 | Ryan McCloud
Dan Loeb vs. Sotheby’s |
| Nov. 30 | William [Bill] Lafferty (MNAT), Bill Savitt (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Tariq Mundiya (Wilkie, Farr & Gallagher), Josh Targoff (Third Point), Domenico De Sole (Tom Ford Brand)
Recent Forms of Shareholder Activism |
| Nov. 23 | David Katz (Wachtell Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Toby Myerson (Paul Weiss), Scott Simpson (Skadden Arps)
Nuts and Bolts of Comparative US/EU M&A Law |
| Nov. 18 | David Berger (Wilson Sonsini) and Steve Wolosky (Olshan Frome Wolosky)
Shareholder Activism |
| Nov. 17 | Elisabeth de Fontenay (Duke University)
Market Information and the Elite Law Firm |
| Nov. 17 | Mark Roe (HLS)
The Perspective of Mark Roe |
| Nov. 16 | Lou Kling (Skadden Arps), Eileen Nugent (Skadden Arps), Faiza J. Saeed (Cravath), Rob Spatt (Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett)
Certainty versus Nominal Price |
| Nov. 16 | Ted Mirvis (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
Boards, Shareholders and Takeovers – The Perspective of Ted Mirvis |
| Nov. 11 | Dan Gallagher
The SEC, the Pay-Ratio Rule, and the Dodd-Frank Clawback |
| Nov. 11 | Deborah Paul (Wachtell Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Tom Brennan (HLS)
Taxation of Mergers & Acquisitions |
| Nov. 10 | Rick Climan (Weil, Gotshal)
The Merger Agreement as a Contract |
| Nov. 10 | Commissioner Kara Stein (U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission)
The Perspective of Kara Stein |
| Nov. 9 | Andrew Lo (MIT)
The Gordon Gekko Effect: The Role of Culture in the Financial Industry |
| Nov. 9 | Brandon Van Dyke (Skadden Arps), Lande Spottswood (Vinson & Elkins)
The Merger Agreement as a Contract |
| Nov. 4 | Boris Feldman (Wilson Sonsini)
Derivative Suits |
| Nov. 4 | Diane Mulcahy (Kauffman Foundation)
VC Performance and Returns: The Data |
| Nov. 3 | Ben Heineman (Harvard)
Corporate Integrity, Trust and Performance – The Perspective of Ben Heineman |
| Nov. 2 | Greg Varallo (RLF), Patricia Vella (MNAT), Rachelle Silverberg (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Mark Morton (Potter Anderson)
The Metaphysics Of Fiduciary Outs: The Intricacies Of A Concept Run Amok |
| Oct. 28 | Denes Ban (OurCrow)
Equity Crowdfunding |
| Oct. 27 | Rebecca Henderson (HBS)
The Perspective of Rebecca Henderson |
| Oct. 27 | Paul Cappuccio (Time Warner), Annaliese Kambour (Time Warner), Doug Phillips (Time Warner), Priya Dogra (Time Warner)
Spin-offs in Practice: Goals, Rules, and Problems |
| Oct. 27 | Jill Fisch (University of Pennsylvania)
Does Majority Voting Improve Board Accountability? |
| Oct. 26 | Brian Schorr (Trian Fund Management)
Hedge Fund Activism – The Perspective of Brian Schorr |
| Oct. 26 | John Finley (Blackstone), Scott Davis (Mayer Brown), Susan Hassan (Skadden Arps)
Contract v. Fiduciary Duty Principles? |
| Oct. 21 | Mitchell Presser (Freshfields), Paul Schnell (Skadden) Perspectives on Taxes |
| Oct. 21 | Isaac Corre (Governors Lane)
The Mylan Plays |
| Oct. 20 | Assaf Hamdani (Hebrew University)
Incentive Fees and Competition in Pension Funds |
| Oct. 20 | Glenn Booraem (Vanguard Group, Inc), Matt Filosa (Morgan Stanley), Aeisha Mastagni (CalSTRS)
The Perspectives of Institutional Investors |
| Oct. 19 | Doron Levit (Wharton)
Corporate Control Activism |
| Oct. 19 | Theodore N. Mirvis (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Paul Rowe (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
The Death of Enhanced Scrutiny? |
| Oct. 19 | Robert Jackson (Columbia Law School)
Trading and Information – The Perspective of Robert Jackson |
| Oct. 19 | Theodore N. Mirvis (Wachtell Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
The Law and Director’s Duties |
| Oct. 14 | Rachelle Silverberg (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
Exclusive-Forum Bylaws and Disclosure-Only Settlements |
| Oct. 9 | Assaf Hamdani (Hebrew University)
Making Independent Directors Work |
| Oct. 7 | Alan Goudiss (Shearman & Sterling)
Zales M&A Litigation |
| Oct. 5 | John Coates (HLS)
Corporate Political Speech – The Perspective of John Coates |
| Oct. 2 | Charlie Penner (Jana Partners)
Activist Director Compensation |
| Sep. 30 | Jeffrey Katz and Jesse Boodoo (Ropes & Gray)
Morgans Hotel Control Battle |
| Sep. 23 | Vicki Sato (HBS), Wendy Lane (Willis Group Limited), David Fubini (HBS), Warren McFarlan (HBS)
The Directors Panel |
| Sep. 15 | Mark Roe (HLS)
Financial Markets and the Political Center of Gravity |
