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 |
