Roundtable: Opportunities and Challenges for Women in Business Law UCLA Law students gained a great opportunity to learn the opportunities and challenges for women practicing business law at a roundtable with three attorneys from the Los Angeles office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. At the roundtable, sponsored by the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy and held in September 2015, Sullivan &
Cromwell partners Alison Ressler and Rita-Anne O’Neill, as well as associate Antonia Stamenova-Dancheva, provided insights from their work in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and complex commercial litigation, and answered questions from students on work-life balance and other issues.
LMI Hosts First Intramural Transactional Law Meet In March, 12 teams of UCLA School of Law students took part in the school’s inaugural Intramural Transactional Law Meet. The competition required students to draft an indemnification agreement to a pre-existing stock purchase agreement, allowing them to practice their negotiation and transactional drafting skills. Throughout the competition, students were given in-person and online trainings, as well as access to online self-study materials. The winning team for Best Draft included Alex Chen LLM ’16, Gemma Karapetyan ’16 and Kimberley Johnson ’17. The team that won the award for Best Negotiation included Chadwick McCombs ’17, Dominic Althoff ’17 and Katherine Yang ’18.
Alex Chen LLM ‘16, Gemma Karapetyan ‘16 and Kimberley Johnson ’17 received the Transactional Law Meet award for Best Draft.
LMI Report Focuses on Public Pension Plans In May the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy released its 2016 Private Fund Report, Public Pension Plans and Private Funds — Common Goals, Conflicting Interests, in conjunction with hosting its Private Fund Conference. The report and conference examined some of the challenging aspects of the
relationship between public pension funds and private funds, including highly-charged topics such as fees and expenses charged by private funds, and whether and how private funds make it more difficult for public pension funds to fulfill their fiduciary duties to their beneficiaries.
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