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 |
