Wednesday, May 21, 2008
8:45 - 9:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Brian V. Breheny, Deputy Director, Division of Corporation Finance, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
9:15 - 10:30 a.m.
The Evolution of U.S. Takeover Regulation
Donald C. Langevoort, Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)
Catherine T. Dixon, Partner, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
Dennis O. Garris, Partner, Alston & Bird LLP
Mauri L. Osheroff, Associate Director, Division of Corporation Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Samuel C. Thompson, Jr., Arthur Weiss Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The Evolution of Global Takeover Regulation
Jeffrey D. Bauman, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)
Noel P. Hinton, Deputy Director General, UK Takeover Panel
Brian Ho, Executive Director, Corporate Finance Division, Securities and Futures Commission
Naizam Kanji, Ontario Securities Commission
Frances Murphy, Slaughter and May
David Arthur Skeel, S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Luncheon Address
Ralph Whitworth, Principal, Relational Investors, LLC, and Georgetown Law Class of 1985
1:30 - 3:15 p.m.
The State of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Marketplace
Robert Kindler, Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley (Moderator)
Steven M. Davidoff, Assistant Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School
Dennis Berman, Reporter, Wall Street Journal
James C. Morphy, Managing Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Balancing Global & U.S. Takeover Regulation
William Wilson Bratton, Peter P. Weidenbruch, Jr., Professor of Business Law, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)
Allan Bulman, Director, Takeovers Panel
Christina Chalk, Senior Special Counsel, Office of Mergers & Acquisitions, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
David A. Katz, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Diane G. Kerr, Partner, Davis, Polk & Wardwell
Thursday, May 22, 2008
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Balancing Federal & State Takeover Regulation
John F. Olson, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (Moderator)
Michele Anderson, Chief, Office of Mergers and Acquisitions, Division of Corporation Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
R. Franklin Balotti, Director, Richards, Layton & Finger
Edward B. Rock, Associate Dean and Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law, Co-Director, Institute for Law & Economics, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Leo E. Strine, Jr., Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
The Future of Federal Takeover Regulation
Jill E. Fisch, T.J. Maloney Professor of Business Law and Director, Fordham Corporate Law Center, Fordham University School of Law (Moderator)
Henry T.C. Hu, Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance, University of Texas School of Law Theodore N. Mirvis, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Nicholas P. Panos, Senior Special Counsel (Business Combinations), Office of Mergers & Acquisitions, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Robert E. Spatt, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP |
