2003 Symposium on Corporate Elections
October 2-3, 2003
Transcript of the Symposium Sessions
This symposium focused on proposals for shareholder nomination of directors currently under SEC consideration. The symposium brought together SEC officials, CEOs, directors, institutional shareholders, investors, shareholder activists, lawyers, judges, and academics to examine this issue. Videotapes of each of the sessions are available below. In addition to the transcript of the symposium’s proceedings available above, videotapes of each of the presentations are available below.
Agenda
Thursday, October 2
Dinner Speech:
Allen Beller (Securities and Exchange Commission)
Video
Friday, October 3
The Basic Pros and Cons of Shareholder Access
Election Contests in the Company’s Proxy: An Idea whose Time has not Come
Martin Lipton and Steven Rosenblum (Wachtell, Lipton)
Paper
video of Steven Rosenblum
Video of Martin Lipton
The Case for Shareholder Access to the Ballot
Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School)
Paper
Video
Panel on the Board/Management Perspective:
Richard Breeden (Richard C. Breeden & Co.)
Video
John Castellani (The Business Roundtable)
Video
James Rogers (Cinergy Inc.)
Video
Ralph Whitworth (Apria Healthcare Group, Relational Investors)
Video
Panel on the Perspective of Institutional Shareholders:
Orin Kramer (Kramer Spellman)
Video
Robert Pozen (Harvard Law School)
Video
Michael Price (MFP Investments)
Video
Sarah Teslik (Council for Institutional Investors)
Video
Panel on the Perspective of Shareholder Activists and Advisers:
Jamie Heard (Institutional Shareholder Services)
Video
Robert Monks (Lens Governance Advisors)
Video
Damon Silvers (AFL-CIO)
Video
John Wilcox (Georgeson Shareholder)
Video
Panel on the Legal Problems in Designing a Shareholder Access Rule:
John Coffee (Columbia Law School)
Video
Joseph Grundfest (Stanford Law School)
Video
Robert Todd Lang (Weil, Gotshal, and Manges)
Video
Charles Nathan (Latham and Watkins)
Video
Leo Strine (Delaware Chancery Court)
Video
Concluding Remarks:
Robert Clark (Harvard Law School)
Video
Floyd Norris (The New York Times)
Video
Harvey Goldschmid (Securities and Exchange Commission)
Video