Corporate Roundtable 12 December 2008 Welcome Michael A. Fitts, Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Afternoon Session Panel on How Do Institutional Investors Decide to Vote Their Shares? How Should They Decide?
Morning Session Are U.S. CEOs Overpaid? Steven N. Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Moderators Edward B. Rock, Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law Michael L. Wachter, William B. Johnson Professor of Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Commentators John E. Core, Ira A. Lipman Professor and Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School Damon Silvers, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO
Panelists Stephen L. Brown, Director of Corporate Governance, TIAA-CREF Jill E. Fisch, Perry Golkin Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School Paul G. Haaga, Jr., Executive Vice President, Capital Research and Management Company Michael McCauley, Senior Corporate Governance Officer, Florida State Board of Administration Robert McCormick, Chief Policy Officer, Glass Lewis & Co, LLC Eric D. Roiter, Lecturer, Boston University School of Law [former General Counsel, Fidelity Management & Research Company] Hon. Myron T. Steele, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware
Rating the Ratings: How Good Are Commercial Governance Ratings? Robert M. Daines, Pritzker Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School Ian D. Gow, Stanford University Graduate School of Business David F. Larcker, James Irvin Miller Professor in Finance, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Commentators Martha Carter, Managing Director, Corporate Governance, RiskMetrics Group Andrew Metrick, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management
Corporate roundtable 6 June 2008 Saïd Business School, University of Oxford Opening Address Colin Mayer and Timothy Endicott, Deans of Saïd Business School and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford Morning Session Hedge Fund Activism in Europe Marco Becht, Director, European Corporate Governance Institute; Professor of Finance and Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles Julian Franks, Professor of Finance, London Business School Jeremy Grant, Executive Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance, London Business School
Commentators John H. Armour, Lovells Professorship in Law and Finance, Oriel College, University of Oxford Roy Katzovicz, Chief Legal Officer, Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. Hedge Fund Activism in the Enforcement of Bond Covenants Marcel Kahan, George T. Lowy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law Edward B. Rock, Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Commentators Horst Eidenmüller, Professor, University of Munich Carolyn Conner, Allen & Overy LLP Afternoon Session Panel Discussion on Doing Deals When the Sky Is Falling
Moderators John H. Armour, Lovells Professorship in Law and Finance, Oriel College, University of Oxford Edward B. Rock, Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School Panelists David S. Blitzer, Senior Managing Director, Private Equity Group, The Blackstone Group International Limited Charles Crawshay, Assistant Secretary, The Takeover Panel Todd Fisher, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Chris Hale, Travers Smith Tim Jenkinson, Professor of Finance, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford Stephanie Keen, Lovells LLP Simon Walker, CEO, British Venture Capital Association
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