Panels, Symposia & Conferences

Poster for the April 4, 2024 Yale JREG Volume 41 Symposium.

JREG Vol. 41 Symposium on "Financial Regulation in the 21st Century"

Panel Discussion I: Banking System Reform in the Wake of Silicon Valley Bank

Panelists: Hilary Allen, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Scholarship, American University Washington College of Law; Kathryn Judge, Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Intellectual Life, Columbia Law School; and Saule Omarova, Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, and Sidley Austin–Robert D. McLean Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School.

Panel Discussion II: Regulatory Strategies for Risk Mitigation

Panelists: Raúl Carrillo, Academic Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School; Edward Janger, David M. Barse Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School; and Jonathan Macey ‘82, Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law, Yale Law School.

* There is a reception after the Symposium from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in SLB Room 120.

Co-sponsored with the Yale Journal on Regulation and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

Commercial Litigation Financing: Challenges and Opportunities

Panelists: Dai Wai Chin Feman, Managing Director - Commercial Litigation & Corporate Counsel, Parabellum Capital; Maria Glover, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; and Angela Ni, Managing Director – Risk Management & Corporate Counsel, Parabellum Capital. Moderator: Victoria A. Cundiff ‘80, Chair, Sedona Conference Working Group 12 on Trade Secrets Law, YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law, and Fellow of the YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society and the Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership.

Poster for the March 28, 2024 Career Panel on "Women in Corporate Law."

Career Panel: "Women in Corporate Law"

Panelists: Elina Tetelbaum ’10, Partner, Corporate Department, Hannah Clark, Associate, Corporate Department, Allison Rabkin Golden ’20, Associate, Corporate Department, and Farrah Ricketts ’20, Associate, Corporate Department, all with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, co-sponsor. Also co-sponsored with the Yale Journal on Regulation.

An Assessment of Recent U.S. Antitrust Enforcement: Goals, Tools, and Decisions

A Conversation with Fiona Scott Morton, Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management and Jonathan Baker, Professor of Law Emeritus, Washington College of Law, American University.

Co-sponsored with the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale.

Poster for the March 12, 2024 Hilibrand Series Panel on "Government Enforcement in the Cryptocurrency Arena: Where Do Things Stand?"

Hilibrand Series Panel: "Government Enforcement in the Cryptocurrency Arena: Where Do Things Stand?"

Panelists: Andrew Ceresney ’96, Partner and Co-Chair of Litigation, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; Claudia Quiroz, Acting Director, National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, and Acting Deputy Chief, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, U.S. Department of Justice; and Jorge Tenreiro ’06, Deputy Chief, Crypto Asset and Cyber Unit, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Moderator: David Zornow ’80, YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Fellow, Center Fellow, and Of Counsel, White Collar Defense and Investigations, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society, the Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership, and the Ludwig Program in Public Sector Leadership.

Panel Discussion: "The Anatomy of an IPO"

Panelists: Christina Banthin, Chief Corporate Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Corebridge Financial, Inc.; Synne D. Chapman, Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP; Apoorva Ramesh, Vice President, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.; and Craig B. Brod ‘80 and Adam E. Fleisher ‘00, YLS Visiting Clinical Lecturers and Partners, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

Poster for the April 11, 2023 Hilibrand Series Panel on "The Current and Future State of Cryptocurrency Enforcement"

Hilibrand Series Panel: "The Current and Future State of Cryptocurrency Enforcement"

Panelists: Eun Young Choi, Director, National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, U.S. Department of Justice; Brian Klein, Partner, Waymaker Law; Jorge Tenreiro ‘06, Deputy Chief, Crypto Asset and Cyber Unit, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; and Kevin Werbach, YLS Visiting Professor of Law, Liem Sioe Liong / First Pacific Company Professor, Professor and Department Chair of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Moderator: David Zornow ‘80, YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law, Center Fellow, and Of Counsel, White Collar Defense and Investigations, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society, the Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership, and the Ludwig Program in Public Sector Leadership.

Poster for the April 4, 2023 Hilibrand Series Panel on "A Broken String on the Prosecutor’s Stradivarius?: Recent Developments in the Evolution of Federal Criminal Mail, Wire and Securities Fraud"

Hilibrand Series Panel: "A Broken String on the Prosecutor’s Stradivarius?: Recent Developments in the Evolution of Federal Criminal Mail, Wire and Securities Fraud"

Panelists: The Hon. Richard J. Sullivan ’90, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Alexandra A.E. Shapiro, Partner, Shapiro Arato Bach LLP. Moderator: David Zornow ’80, YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law, Center Fellow, and Of Counsel, White Collar Defense and Investigations, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society, the Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership, and the Ludwig Program in Public Sector Leadership.

Poster for the March 28, 2023 Career Panel on "Women in Corporate Law"

Career Panel: "Women in Corporate Law"

Panelists: Elina Tetelbaum ’10, Partner, Corporate Department, Hannah Clark, Associate, Corporate Department, Helen Diagama ‘17, Associate, Corporate Department, and Farrah Ricketts ’20, Associate, Corporate Department, all with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, co-sponsor. Also co-sponsored with the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Poster for the February 28, 2023 Hilibrand Series Panel on "What's on the Agenda for 2023? Federal Criminal and Civil Enforcement Priorities Post-COVID"

Hilibrand Series Panel: "What’s On the Agenda for 2023?: Federal Criminal and Civil Enforcement Priorities Post-COVID."

Panelists: Vanessa Roberts Avery, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut; Scott Hartman ’10, Chief, Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York; Lisa H. Miller, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division; and Tejal D. Shah, Associate Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, New York Regional Office. Moderator: David Zornow ’80, YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law, Center Fellow, and Of Counsel, White Collar Defense and Investigations, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society, the Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership, and the Ludwig Program in Public Sector Leadership.

Career Panel: "Women in Corporate Law"

Panelists: Elina Tetelbaum ’10, Partner, Corporate Department, Helen Diagama ‘17, Associate, Corporate Department, and Farrah Ricketts ’20, Associate, Corporate Department, all with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, co-sponsor. Also co-sponsored with the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Panel Discussion: "Careers on the Buy-Side"

Panelists: Henry P. Davis ‘93, Partner, Select Equity Group; Jackie C. Klaber ‘12, Managing Director and Head of Opportunistic Investing, Rockefeller Capital Management; Jonathan Lewinsohn ‘06, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Diameter Capital Partners LP; and Rizwan Sabar ‘07, Founder and Senior Portfolio Management, Zade Capital. Moderator: John McCormick ‘95, YLS Associate Research Scholar and recent Global Group Head, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. All biographies available at this link. Co-sponsored by the Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership and the Yale Law & Business Society.

Poster for the February 10, 2022 Panel Discussion on "Women in White Collar: Perspectives from Three Friends."

Panel Discussion: "Women in White Collar: Perspectives from Three Friends"

Panelists: Joanna C. Hendon ’91, Partner, Alston & Bird LLP and Co-Leader, White Collar, Government and Internal Investigations Team; Dani R. James ’95, Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP and Co-Chair, White Collar Defense and Investigations Group; and Mei Lin Kwan-Gett ’92, Deputy General Counsel and Global Head of Litigation and Regulatory Investigations, Citigroup. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society, Yale Law Women, the Career Development Office, and the Chae Private Sector Initiative of The Tsai Leadership Program.

Panel Discussion: “The Future of IPOs”

Panelists: Kristy Grippi, Senior Managing Director and Head of Equity Capital Markets, Evercore; Scott Hendler, Associate General Counsel, Viking Global Investors; John D. Morley ‘06, YLS Professor of Law; and Craig B. Brod ‘80 and Adam E. Fleisher ‘00, YLS Visiting Clinical Lecturers and Partners, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

Poster for the March 23, 2021 Career Panel on "Women in Corporate Law"

Career Panel: "Women in Corporate Law"

Panelists: Elina Tetelbaum ’10, Partner, Corporate Department, Helen Diagama ‘17, Associate, Corporate Department, Elizabeth Ingriselli ‘16, Associate, Corporate Department, and Ellis Liang ‘19 (J.D./M.B.A.), Associate, Corporate Department, all with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, co-sponsor. Also co-sponsored with the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Poster for the March 16, 2020 Career Panel on "Women in Corporate Law"

(Cancelled) Career Panel: "Women in Corporate Law"

Panelists: Elina Tetelbaum ’10, Partner, Corporate Department, Loren Oumarova ‘17, Associate, Corporate Department, Emily Barreca ’19, Law Clerk, Corporate Department, and Bita Assad ‘15, Associate, Litigation Department, all with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, co-sponsor. Also co-sponsored with the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Poster for the Oct. 30, 2019 Panel Discussion on "End of an Era? Effects of Consolidation on the Innovation Economy."

Panel Discussion: “End of an Era? Effects of Consolidation on the Innovation Economy”

Panelists: Paul T. Cappuccio, Vice Chairman, the dtx company and former Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Time Warner Inc., Fiona Scott Morton, Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management, Howard Shelanski, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, and Tim Wu, Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology, Columbia Law School; Moderator: Sam Mandel ‘87, Senior Vice President, betaworks. Co-sponsored with Yale Law & Business Society.

Career Panel: "Women in Corporate Law"

Panelists: Elina Tetelbaum ’10, Partner, Helen A. Diagama ‘17, Associate, and Loren Oumarova ‘17, Associate, all with the Corporate Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, co-sponsor. Also co-sponsored with the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Poster for the 2019 Panel Discussion on "An Inside Look at Spotify's Direct Listing: The Impact on IPO Decision-Making"

Panel Discussion: “An Inside Look at Spotify’s Direct Listing: The Impact on IPO Decision-Making”

Panelists: Horacio Gutierrez, General Counsel and Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs, Spotify Technology S.A.; John D. Morley ‘06, YLS Professor of Law; and Craig B. Brod ‘80 and Adam E. Fleisher ‘00, YLS Visiting Clinical Lecturers and Partners, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

Panel Discussion: “Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Yale”

Panelists: Dianne Lake ‘20, Tsai CITY Student Advisory Board Member; Sven Riethmueller, Visiting Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Clinic at Yale Law School; Wazhma Sadat ‘19, Co-Founder, Firoz Academy; and Baljeet Sandu, Tsai CITY Innovator in Residence and ISP Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale and the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Clinic at Yale Law School.

Panel Discussion: Entrepreneurial Presentations and New Entrepreneurship Summer Fellowships

Mark Gerson '98 , Co-Founder and Chairman, The Gerson Lehrman Group

Josh Abramowitz '97 , Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bread Finance

Part of the Many Paths Initiative by Dean Heather Gerken.

Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office and Yale Law & Business Society.

Panel Discussion: “Marijuana Legalization: Impetus and Implications”

Panelists: Amy C. Brown, J.D., Assistant U.S. Attorney, Violent Crimes & Narcotics Unit, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut; G. Malik Burnett, MD, MBA, MPH, Resident Physician, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and former DC Policy Manager, Office of National Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance; Richard P. Compton, Ph.D., Director, Office of Behavioral Safety Research, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation; Douglas Fischer, J.D., Chief Legal Officer, National Association of Cannabis Businesses; and Robert G. Rowe, III, J.D., LL.M., Vice President and Associate Chief Counsel, Regulatory Compliance, American Bankers Association; Moderator: Katherine Kraschel, Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law, Research Scholar, and Executive Director of the Solomon Center. Co-sponsored with the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School.

Panel Discussion: “Is the YLS-SOM 3-Year JD-MBA Joint Degree Program for You?”

Panelists include: Travis Anderson-Hamilton ’19 (JD and MBA); Gabriella Capone ‘19 (JD and MBA); Sandra Lynne Fryhofer ‘19 (JD and MBA); Paul Joo ‘18 (JD and MBA); Gurjot Kaur ‘19 (JD and MBA); Snow Rui ‘18 (JD and MBA); and Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, Yale SOM; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Career Panel: “Women in Law”

Panelists: Tijana Dvornic, Partner, Tax Department, Emily Johnson, Associate, Restructuring and Finance, and Elina Tetelbaum ’10, Associate, Corporate Department, all with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, co-sponsor. Also co-sponsored with the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Panel Discussion: “Is the YLS-SOM 3-Year JD-MBA Joint Degree Program for You?”

Panelists include: Minjae (John) Jo ’17 (JD and MBA); Julia Knight ‘17 (JD and MBA); Alexios Shaw ‘17 (JD and MBA); Paul Strauch ‘18 (JD and MBA); and Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, Yale SOM; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Panel Discussion: “Pondering a Post-Brexit World”

Panelists: David Bach, Senior Associate Dean for the Executive MBA and Global Programs & Professor in the Practice of Management, Yale SOM; Gregory Fleming ’88, YLS Visiting Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar in Law and Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow; Gary B. Gorton, Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor of Management & Professor of Finance, Yale SOM; Stephen S. Roach, Senior Lecturer, Yale SOM and Senior Fellow, Yale University Jackson Institute of Global Affairs; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director.

Panel Discussion: “Is the YLS-SOM 3-Year JD-MBA Joint Degree Program for You?”

Panelists: Sarah Goldman ‘16 (JD and MBA); Tomas Rua ‘16 (JD and MBA); Evan Turnage ‘17 (JD and MBA); Samuel Page ‘16 (JD and MBA); Kayla DeLeon ‘17 (JD and MBA); Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, Yale SOM; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Panel Discussion: ”Is the YLS-SOM 3-Year JD-MBA Joint Degree Program for You?”

Panelists: Tosin Agbabiaka ‘16 (JD and MBA); Kristen Bushnell ‘16 (JD and MBA); Marisa Choy ‘16 (JD and MBA); Sarah Esty ‘16 (JD and MBA); Sarah Goldman ‘16 (JD and MBA); Julia Knight ‘17 (JD and MBA); Mike Lane ‘15 (JD and MBA); Karlanna Lewis ‘15 (JD and MBA); Samuel Page ‘16 (JD and MBA); Tomas Rua ‘16 (JD and MBA); Luci Yang ‘15 (JD and MBA); Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, Yale SOM; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Panel Discussion: ”Is the YLS-SOM 3-Year JD-MBA Joint Degree Program for You?”

Panelists: Yousef AbuGharbieh ‘15 (JD and MBA); Mike Lane ‘15 (JD and MBA); Karlanna Lewis ‘15 (JD and MBA); Dayo Olopade ‘15 (JD and MBA); Luci Yang ‘15 (JD and MBA); Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, Yale SOM; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Sullivan & Cromwell Conference on Challenges in Global Financial Services

Welcome and Panel I: Bank Capital and Liquidity Requirements Video

Stijn Claessens , Assistant Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund

Michael H. Krimminger , Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and former General Counsel, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Andrew Metrick , Deputy Dean for Faculty Development & Michael H. Jordan Professor of Finance and Management, Yale SOM

Roberta Romano '80 , YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director

Moderator: Ian Ayres '86 , YLS William K. Townsend Professor of Law

Panel II: Bank Transparency and the Financial Crisis Video

Robert J. Giuffra, Jr. '87 , Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Gary B. Gorton , Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor of Management and Finance, Yale SOM

Henry T. C. Hu '79 , Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance, University of Texas Law School and former Director, Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Frederick Schauer , David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

Moderator: Donald Kohn , Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and former Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Board

Keynote Address Video

Daniel K. Tarullo , Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Panel III: Accountability and Structuring of Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs) Video

H. Rodgin Cohen , Senior Chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Edward J. Kane , Professor of Finance, Boston College

Andrew W. Lo , Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, MIT Sloan SOM and Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering

John F. Simonson , Deputy Director for Systemic Resolution Planning and Implementation, Office of Complex Financial Institutions, FDIC

Moderator: Henry B. Hansmann '74 , YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law

Panel IV: Cross-Border Resolution Video

James W. Giddens '66 , Chair, Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy Group, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP and Liquidation Trustee, Lehman Brothers Inc. and MF Global Inc.

Seth Grosshandler , Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Richard J. Herring , Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking & Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Jonathan R. Macey '82 , YLS Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law

Moderator: John D. Morley '06 , YLS Associate Professor of Law

Career Panel: “Careers in Consulting”

Panelists: Charrissa Lin, Consultant, Wellspring Consulting; Grant Martinez ‘10, Associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (and previously of Boston Consulting Group); Naveed Rashid ‘11, Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Co. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Panel Discussion on Executive Compensation: “Who’s Listening to Say on Pay?”

Panelists: Arthur Kohn, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Stephen Brown, Associate General Counsel, TIAA-CREF; Moderator: Jonathan R. Macey ‘82, YLS Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law. Co-sponsored with the American Constitution Society.

Panel Discussion: “Emerging Issues in M&A Law: A Case Study Presented by Sullivan & Cromwell”

Panelists: Melissa Sawyer, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Marc Trevino ’93, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; and Jason Tyler, Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Moderator: Jonathan R. Macey ’82, YLS Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society and the Career Development Office.

Yale Global Business Ethics Conference. Presented by the Yale Law & Business Society.

Introductory Lecture: Neil Fligstein, Class of 1939 Chancellor’s Professor, University of California Sociology Dept.

Panel I: Securities Law Enforcement Since 2008

Panelists: Troy Paredes ‘96, Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; David Anders, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Antonia Apps, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York; William Cohan, Award-Winning Author and Journalist; Moderator: Richard Squire, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Panel II: The Ethics of Extractive Industries

Panelists: Ernesto Zedillo, Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and Chair, Natural Resource Charter; Ken Cohen, Vice President of Governmental Affairs, ExxonMobil; Joseph Bell ‘68, Partner, Hogan Lovells; Keith Phillips, Global Head of Metals & Mining Investment Banking, Dahlman Rose; Moderator: Peter Rosenblum, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein Clinical Professor of Human Rights Law, Columbia Law School

Keynote Speaker: Sheila Bair, former Chairman, U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Interview: Paul Volcker, former Chairman, President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board and former Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve

Panel III: Fostering Growth in Emerging Markets

Panelists: Paul Brest, former Head, Hewlett Foundation; Lynn Roland, General Counsel, Acumen Fund; Baily Blair Kempner, Director of Growth and Sustainability, Endeavor Global; Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Development Economics, Yale University; Moderator: Dayo Olopade, YLS student and author of The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules & Making Change in Modern Africa

Panel IV: Closing Dialogue

Panelists: James Wolfensohn, former President, World Bank and Founder, Wolfensohn & Co.; Michael Elliott, President and CEO, ONE Campaign; Moderator: Amy Chua, YLS John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law

Panel Discussion: ”Is the YLS-SOM 3-Year JD-MBA Joint Degree Program for You?”

Panelists: Bob Borek ‘13 (JD and MBA); Marjan Firouzgar ‘14 (JD and MBA); Fiona Heckscher ’14 (JD and MBA); Taylor Hedrick ‘13 (JD and MBA); Daud Munir ‘13 (JD and MBA); Daniel Weisfield ‘14 (JD and MBA); Jim Williamson ‘13 (JD and MBA); Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, Yale SOM; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Panel Discussion: “SEC Decisionmaking and Rulemaking: An Agency under Pressure”

Panelists: David M. Becker, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and former General Counsel, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Alan L. Beller, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and former Director, Division of Corporate Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Moderator: Craig B. Brod ’80, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

Career Panel: “Careers at Technology Companies and Startups”

Panelists: Leah Belsky ‘09, Vice President and General Manager, EMEA, Kaltura; Jared Grusd, General Counsel, Spotify; Sander Daniels ‘09, Co-Founder and Director of Business Development, Thumbtack, Inc. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office and the Yale Law & Business Society.

“BRIC by BRIC: An Emerging Markets Conference”

Featuring: Emilson Alonso, President, HSBC Latin America; Domingo Cavallo, President Central Bank, Argentina; Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO, Women’s World Banking; Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow, Yale University and Non-Executive Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia. Co-sponsored with the Yale Undergraduate Business Society.

Career Panel: “What Do Transactional Lawyers Do?”

Panelists: Nishka Chandrasoma ‘06, Associate, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP; Sue Meng ‘10, Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; Aaron Schlaphoff ‘04, Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Career Panel: “Careers in Consulting”

Panelists: Grant Martinez ‘10, Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group; Christian McNamara, Consultant, Wellspring Consulting; Daniel Reid ‘09, Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Co. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Panel Discussion: “Emerging Issues in M&A Law: A Case Study Presented by Sullivan & Cromwell”

Panelists: Melissa Sawyer, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Marc Trevino ’93, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Brian Parness, Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

Movie Screening and Discussion: “Margin Call”

Commentators: Ian Ayres ‘86, YLS William K. Townsend Professor of Law; Jonathan Macey ‘82, YLS Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

Panel Discussion: “Is the YLS-SOM Accelerated Integrated 3-year JD-MBA Joint Degree Program for You?”

Panelists: Jackie Carter ‘12 (JD and MBA); Chris Hines ‘12 (JD and MBA); Chris Hurtado ‘12 (JD and MBA); Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

“Asia Tomorrow 3.0: Technology’s Next Transition”

Featuring: Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics; James Woolsey, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; James Chanos, President & Founder of Kynikos Associates; Arun K. Singh, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India; Stephen Roach, Non-Executive Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute. Co-sponsored with the Yale College Business Society.

Movie Screening and Discussion: “Inside Job”

Commentators: Steven M. Davidoff, Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law; Larry Ribstein, Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law and Associate Dean for Research, University of Illinois College of Law; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

Career Panel: ”Careers in Consulting”

Panelists: Priam Dutta ‘07, Consultant, McKinsey & Company; Sarah Fortt ‘10, Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group; Charrissa Lin, Senior Manager, Wellspring Consulting LLC. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office, Yale Law & Business Society and Yale Law Social Entrepreneurs.

Career Panel: “What Do Transactional Lawyers Do?”

Panelists: Sara Feinstein, Associate, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP; Sue Meng ’10, Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; DongJu Song, Associate, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office and the Yale Law & Business Society.

Career Panel: “In-House Legal Practice”

Panelists: Michelle Browdy ‘90, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, IBM Corporation; Harold Rose ‘96, Associate General Counsel, Yale University; Alexander Shapiro ‘91, Managing Director and Senior Managing Counsel, Bank of NY Mellon; Saema Somalya Kaukab ‘02, Senior Legal Director and Corporate Counsel, PepsiCo, Inc. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Career Panel: “Careers in Finance”

Panelists: John Kim ‘00, Managing Director, Southfield Investment Management; Eugene Nardelli ‘07, Investment Banking Associate, Morgan Stanley; Jason Silvers ‘02, Vice President, Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office and the Yale Law & Business Society.

Career Panel: “Careers in Finance”

Panelists: Jonathan Lewinsohn ‘06, Head of Research/Investment Committee Member, Anchorage Capital; Nathan Pierce, Associate, FBR Capital Markets; Rizwan Sabar ‘07, Associate, Goldman Sachs. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Career Panel: “What Do Corporate Lawyers Do?”

Panelists: Michael Bretholz ’06, Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP; Marcia Governale ‘03, Associate, Hemenway & Barnes LLP; Jonathan Spencer ‘06, Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Career Panel: “Careers in Consulting”

Panelists: Brandon Fail ‘06, Associate, McKinsey & Company; Kennedy Gachiri ‘12, Former Consultant, Dalberg Global Development Advisors; Chelsea Hamilton, Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group; Christopher Keevil, Managing Director, Wellspring Consulting. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Panel Discussion: “Lawyering and the Financial Crisis”

Panelists: Brian Daly, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Raptor Group Holdings LP; Lauren Teigland-Hunt, Managing Partner, Tiegland-Hunt LLP; David Zimmerman, General Counsel, Quantitative Financial Structurings; Moderator: Reshma Saujani ‘02, YLS Research Scholar. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

Panel Discussion: “Is the New YLS-SOM Accelerated Integrated 3-year JD-MBA Joint Degree Program for You?”

Panelists: Beth Foster ’11 (JD and MBA); Kristen Ghattas ‘10 (JD and MBA); Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, Yale SOM; Doug Rand ‘10 (JD and MBA); Eric Robinson ‘83 (JD and MBA), Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law; Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

“Industry Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis Series”

Hosts: Gregory J. Fleming ‘88, YLS Senior Research Scholar, Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow, and former President and Chief Operating Officer, Merrill Lynch & Co., and Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society and on Apr. 14 and 29, with the Yale Law and Media Program.

Feb. 3: Gregory J. Fleming ‘88, YLS Senior Research Scholar, Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow, and former President and Chief Operating Officer, Merrill Lynch & Co.

Feb. 17: Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock.

Mar. 3: Rich Bernstein, Chief Investment Strategist & Head of Investment Strategy Group, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and David Rosenberg, Chief North American Economist, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.

Mar. 31: James P. Gorman, Co-President, Morgan Stanley.

Apr. 8: Steven Galbraith, Limited Partner, Maverick Capital and Michael Lyons, Principal, Maverick Capital.

Apr. 14: Daniel L. Doctoroff, President, Bloomberg, L.P.

Apr. 21: H. Rodgin Cohen, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Jonathan N. Eisenberg, Special Counsel, Bank of America and former Senior Vice President and Co-Head of Global Litigation, Merrill Lynch; and Lawrence S. Makow, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Apr. 29: Susanne Craig, Wall Street Editor, Wall Street Journal; David Faber, Anchor and Reporter, CNBC; and Lucas van Praag, Global Head of Corporate Communications, Goldman Sachs.

May 5: Alan D. Schwartz, Former President and CEO, Bear Stearns.

Panel Discussion: “The Financial Crisis: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?”

Panelists: Gary B. Gorton, Professor of Finance, Yale SOM; Michael Klausner ‘81, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Andrew Metrick, Professor of Finance, Yale SOM; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the YLS Association of Northern California and Yale SOM.

Career Panel: “What Do Transactional Lawyers Do?”

Panelists: Peter Schwartz ‘98, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP; Aaron Schlaphoff ‘04, Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell; Lara Phimister ‘04, Associate, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr LLP. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.

Career Panel: “Careers in Banking, Hedge Funds and Private Equity”

Panelists: John Kim ‘00, Southfield Investment Management LLC; John Wright ‘05, Rollins Capital. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office and the Yale Law & Business Society.

Panel Discussion: “What’s Going on in the Financial Markets?”

Panelists: William Goetzmann, Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies, Yale SOM; Gary Gorton, Professor of Finance, Yale SOM; Jonathan Macey ‘82, YLS Deputy Dean and Sam Harris Professor of Law; Andrew Metrick, Professor of Finance, Yale SOM; Moderator: John Morley ‘06, Executive Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law.

Career Panel: “What Does a General Counsel Do?”

Panelists: Ben Heineman ‘71, former General Counsel, General Electric; Siri Marshall ‘74, former General Counsel, General Mills, Inc.; William McDavid ‘72, former General Counsel, JP Morgan Chase; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Center Director. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office and Yale Law & Business Society.

Career Panel: “Careers in Banking, Hedge Funds and Private Equity”

Panelists: Rishi Gupta ‘04, Senior Associate, OrbiMed Advisors, LLC; Jonathan Lewinsohn ‘06, Associate, Anchorage Capital Group; John Wright ‘05, Silver Lake Partners. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office and Yale Law & Business Society.

Career Panel: “What Do Corporate Lawyers Do?”

Panelists: Stuart Barkoff, Senior Associate, Arnold & Porter LLP; Christina Padden ‘01, Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Kory Langhofer ‘06, Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office and the Yale Law & Business Society.

Yale Symposium on Corporate Governance

Jan. 29: Inaugural Symposium: Michael C. Jensen, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School. “Integrity: A Positive Model with Applications to Corporate Governance and Finance”

Mar. 1: Christian Leuz, Professor of Accounting and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. “Cost of Capital Effects and Changes in Growth Expectations around U.S. Cross-Listings.”

Mar. 28: Luigi Zingales, Roberta C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. “Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?”

Apr. 19: Robert M. Daines ’92, Pritzker Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School. “Mandatory Disclosure, Information Asymmetry and Liquidity: The Effect of the 1934 Act”

Co-sponsored with the Yale SOM Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance.

Symposium on: “Reassessing Director Elections”

Panel I: Alternatives to Plurality Voting

Panelists: Margaret M. Foran, Sr. Vice President-Corporate Governance, Associate General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Pfizer Inc.; Alan Gerber, Professor of Political Science, Yale University; Jeffrey N. Gordon, Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; John Wilcox, Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Governance, TIAA-CREF; Moderator: Robert Todd Lang ‘47, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Panel II: Institutional Perspectives on Elections

Panelists: Stephen Deane, Vice President and Director of the Institute for Corporate Governance, Institutional Shareholder Services; Harvey J. Goldschmid, Dwight Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School; Joseph A. Grundfest, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School; Eric D. Roiter, Sr. Vice President and General Counsel, Fidelity Management & Research Company; Damon A. Silvers, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO; Moderator: Charles M. Nathan ‘65, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP

Panel III: Comparative Perspective

Panelists: Guido Ferrarini LLM ’78, Professor of Business Law, University of Genoa; Laurence Hazell, Director of Governance Services, Standard & Poor’s; Reinier H. Kraakman ‘79, Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; J. Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School; Moderator: Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law

Panel IV: Federalism and Elections

Panelists: Lucian A. Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics and Finance, Harvard Law School; Alan Beller, Director, Division of Corporate Finance and Senior Advisor to the SEC Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Jonathan R. Macey ‘82, YLS Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law; The Hon. Ralph K. Winter ’60, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit; Moderator: The Hon. E. Norman Veasey, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

International Symposium on Assessing Corporate Law Reform in the Transatlantic Context

Panel I: Corporate Governance Reform

Panelists: Andreas Cahn, Professor and Director, Institute for Law and Finance, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main; Paul Davies LLM ‘69, Cassel Professor of Commercial Law, London School of Economics and Political Science; Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Professor of Finance and Economics and Director, International Institute for Corporate Governance, Yale SOM; Chair: Michael E. Levine ’65, YLS Professor (Adjunct) of Law and former Dean, Yale SOM

Panel II: Financial Market Reform

Panelists: Eilis Ferran, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge; Jean-Francois Theodore, Chairman and CEO, Euronext; David Wright, Director, Financial Markets, European Commission; Eddy Wymeersch, Chairman, Banking and Finance Commission, Belgium and Professor of Commercial Law, University of Ghent; Chair: Roberta Romano ’80, YLS Allen Duffy/Class of 1960 Professor of Law

Keynote Address: Jean-Francois Lepetit, Chairman of the Commission des Operations de Bourse

Panel III: Proposed EU Takeover Directive

Panelists: Richard G. Asthalter ’71, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Marco Becht, Professor of Finance, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Executive Director of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Klaus Hopt, Professor and Director, Max Planck Institute of Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg and Member, EU High Level Group of Company Law Experts; Alain Pietrancosta, Professor, Francois Rabelais University Tours and Member, Financial Law Research Center, University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne); Chair: Alan Schwartz ’64, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director

Panel IV: Corporate Restructuring and Mobility

Panelists: Gerard Hertig, Professor of Law, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich); Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Said Business School, University of Oxford; Helene Ploix, Chairman, Pechel Industries, and Board Member, BNP Paribas, Boots Group plc, Lafarge and Ferring S.A.; Roberta Romano ’80, YLS Allen Duffy/Class of 1960 Professor of Law; Chair: Reid Feldman ’71, Partner, LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae LLP

Panel Discussion: “The Enron Situation: A View from the Professions”

Panelists: William T. Allen, Professor of Law and Clinical Professor of Business, and Director, New York University Center for Law and Business, and Founding Chair, Independence Standards Board; Rick Antle, Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Accounting, Yale SOM; Richard Ippolito, Professor of Law, George Mason University and former Chief Economist, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Eugene A. Ludwig ‘73, Managing Partner, Promontory Financial Group and former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency; Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Allen Duffy/Class of 1960 Professor of Law; Michael Shepherd, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, The Bank of New York Company, Inc. and former Senior Deputy Comptroller of the Currency and Associate Counsel to the President of the United States; Moderator: Alan Schwartz ‘64, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director

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