Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law

Chirelstein Colloquium

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2015

April 28, 2015 (Gregg Engles '82, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The WhiteWave Foods Company)
April 27, 2015 (Linda C. Goldstein '85, Partner and Co-Leader, White Collar and Securities Litigation Practice, Dechert LLP)
April 20, 2015 (Andrew J. Ceresney '96, Director, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement)
April 16, 2015 (Kimberley D. Harris '96, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, NBCUniversal)
April 6, 2015 (John A. Levin '63, Chief Executive Officer, Levin Capital Strategies, LP)
March 30, 2015 (Donald J. Toumey '81, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP)
March 23, 2015 (The Hon. Donald F. Parsons, Jr., Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery)
March 9, 2015 (Steven Lofchie '89, Partner and Co-Chair, Financial Services Group, and Tom Baldwin, Chief Information Officer, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP)
March 2, 2015 (Alvaro Barriga, General Counsel, Corp Group; Lynn K. Neuner '92, Partner; and David Williams, Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP)
February 16, 2015 (Charles J. Ditkoff '86, Counsel, McDermott Will & Emery LLP)

2014

April 28, 2014 (Lesley Friedman Rosenthal, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Lincoln Center)
April 21, 2014 (David Dull '82, Business Advisor and Corporate Director, and James R. Asperger, Partner and Co-Chair, White Collar and Corporate Investigations Group, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP)
April 14, 2014 (James W. Giddens '66, Chair, Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy Group, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP and Liquidation Trustee, Lehman Brothers, Inc. and MF Global, Inc.)
March 31, 2014 (Mark Weidman '96, Managing Director and Member, Global Executive and Operating Committees, BlackRock, Inc. and Global Head, Ishares)
March 24, 2014 (Leslie N. Silverman '73, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP)
March 10, 2014 (The Hon. Jack B. Jacobs, Delaware Supreme Court)
March 3, 2014 (Carlos E. Méndez-Peñate '76, Shareholder and Co-Chair, Latin America & the Caribbean Practice, Akerman Senterfitt LLP)
February 24, 2014 (Shawn J. Chen '95, Global Co-General Counsel for Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement/Legal, HSBC Holdings PLC)
February 17, 2014 (Gregory R. Miller '93, Managing Director, Greenhill & Co.)
February 3, 2014 (Michèle O. Penzer '93, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP)
January 27, 2014 (Robert C. Baker '59, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, National Realty & Development Corp.)

2012

April 23, 2012 (Mark D. Cahn '86, General Counsel, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
April 16, 2012 (John M. Townsend '71, Partner and Co-Chair, Arbitration & ADR Group, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP)
April 9, 2012 (James C. Vardell III '80, Partner, Corporate Department, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP)
March 19, 2012 (David Nimmer '80, Of Counsel, Irell & Manella LLP and Professor from Practice, UCLA School of Law)
March 5, 2012 (James R. Doty '69, Chairman, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board)
February 20, 2012 (Benjamin F. Stapleton III '69, Senior Counsel and member, Mergers and Acquisitions Group, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP)
February 13, 2012 (David M. Zornow '80, Partner and Global Head, Litigation/Controversy Practices and Head, NY White Collar Crime Group, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP)
February 6, 2012 (Jonathan A. Knee '88, Senior Managing Director, Evercore Partners)
January 30, 2012 (Thomas H. Bell '83, Partner, Corporate Department, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP)
January 23, 2012 (Amy Schulman '89, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, President and General Manager, Nutrition, Pfizer Inc.)

2011

April 25, 2011 (Gregory J. Fleming '88, President and CEO of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, President, Morgan Stanley Investment Management)
April 18, 2011 (The Hon. Leo E. Strine, Jr., Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery)
April 4, 2011 (George T. Conway '87, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
April 11, 2011 (Troy A. Paredes ‘96, Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
March 28, 2011 (David Parker '73, Partner, Kleinberg Kaplan Wolff & Cohen)
March 21, 2011 (Josh L. Abramowitz ’97, Chairman and Manager, Deep Creek Capital LLC and Brett F. Cohen ’97, Founder and General Partner, JGB Capital)
March 7, 2011 (Frank R. Jimenez '91, Vice President and General Counsel, ITT Corporation)
February 28, 2011 (Steven A. Rosenblum '82, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
February 21, 2011 (Mitchell S. Presser '89, Partner, Paine & Partners, LLC)
February 7, 2011 (Craig B. Brod '80, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP)
January 31, 2011 (Henry Hu '79, Allan Shivers Chair, University of Texas Law School and Inaugural Director, Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)

2009

May 4, 2009 (Arthur Fleischer, Jr. '58, Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP)
April 20, 2009 (Robert J. Giuffra, Jr. '87, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP)
April 13, 2009 (Michael Chepiga '79, Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP)
April 6, 2009 (Roger Aaron '68, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP)
March 30, 2009 (Joseph Ravitch '88, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.)
March 23, 2009 (Gina Raimondo '98, General Partner, Point Judith Capital)
February 23, 2009 (Richard Levin '75, Partner, Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP)
February 9, 2009 (Ben W. Heineman, Jr. '71, Former General Counsel, General Electric and Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University)
February 2, 2009 (Sherron Watkins and Company, former Vice President and whistleblower, Enron Corporation)

2008

May 5, 2008 (Krris F. Heinzelman '76, Partner and Head, Corporate Department, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP)
April 14, 2008 (Gary J. Wolfe '75, Partner, Seward & Kissel LLP)
April 7, 2008 (William H. McDavid '72, ret. General Counsel, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.)
March 24, 2008 (Gandolfo V. DiBlasi '78, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP)
March 10, 2008 (Paul Grossman '64, Partner, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP)
March 3, 2008 (Eleazer Klein '91, Partner, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP)
February 25, 2008 (Randall K.C. Kau '74, Founding Managing Member and Managing Director, XE Capital Management, LLC)
February 18, 2008 (Patricia Geoghegan '74, Partner and Head, Employee Benefits Practice, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP)
February 11, 2008 (Michael R. Eisenson '81 Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Charlesbank Capital Partners, LLC)
February 4, 2008 (The Hon. Myron Steele, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware)
January 28, 2008 (David Machlowitz ‘77, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Medco Health Solutions, Inc.)

2007

May 7, 2007 (Siri S. Marshall '74, Senior Vice-President, General Counsel & Secretary, General Mills)
April 30, 2007 (Paul T. Friedman '80, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP)
April 16, 2007 (Boris Feldman '80, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati)
April 9, 2007 (George J. Schutzer '80, Partner, Patton Boggs LLP)
April 2, 2007 (Eric Beckman '94, Partner/Managing Director in the Private Debt Group, Ares Management LLC)
March 26, 2007 (David M. Crowe '80, President, Rockfish Realty LLC; Managing Director-Retired, Lehman Brothers)
March 12, 2007 (Alan U. Schwartz '56, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig)
March 5, 2007 (Eric S. Robinson '83, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Mitchell Presser '89, Managing Director, Fox Paine & Company LLC)
February 26, 2007 (Marshall S. Huebner '93, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell)
February 12, 2007 Herbert S. Wander '60, Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenmann LLP; Co-Chair SEC Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies)
February 5, 2007 (John Hueston '91, Former Lead Prosecutor of the Enron Task Force; Partner, Irell & Manella LLP)

2006

May 1, 2006 (Peter Ezersky '85, Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group LLC)
April 24, 2006 (The Honorable William Chandler LL.M. '79, Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery)
April 17, 2006 (Robert Todd Lang '47, Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP)
April 14, 2006 (Martin W. Korman '89, Partner, Chair, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati)
April 10, 2006 (Stewart Kagan '85 and Rosa Testani '88, Partners, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP)
March 31, 2006 (James A. Geraghty '80, Senior Vice President, Genzyme)
March 27, 2006 (Marcel Kahan, George T. Lowy Professor of Law, NYU School of Law)
March 6, 2006 (Michael E. Levine '65, Distinguished Research Scholar, NYU School of Law, Retired Senior Airline Executive, Former Dean, Yale School of Management)
February 27, 2006 (John C. Coates, Professor, Harvard Law School)
February 24, 2006 (Victoria Cundiff '80, Partner and Chair, Partnership Evaluation Committee, Paul Hastings)
February 13, 2006 (Charles Nathan '65, Partner and Global Co-Chair, Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Latham & Watkins)
January 30, 2006 (Mark Campisano '80, Partner and General Tax Counsel, McKinsey & Company)