Colloquium For Spring-2015

February 16, 2015

Charles J. Ditkoff ‘86, Counsel, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, “The LBO of HCA: Practical Applications of a Supervised Analytic Writing.” 

February 23, 2015
Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Lecture

Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics, Harvard University, “Against Against Prediction: How Machine Learning Can Improve the Legal System.” 

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March 2, 2015

Alvaro Barriga, General Counsel, Corp Group; Lynn K. Neuner ‘92, Partner, and David Williams, Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, “The CorpBanca Deal: Fighting Off Challenges in New York and Santiago to a Chilean Bank Merger.” 

March 9, 2015

Steven Lofchie ‘89, Partner and Co-Chair, Financial Services Group, and Tom Baldwin, Chief Information Officer, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, “Looking Three Years Forward.”

March 23, 2015

The Hon. Donald F. Parsons, Jr.Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery, “Two Current, Important, But Unrelated, Topics in Delaware Law: (1) Alternative Entities and (2) Activist Shareholders.”  

March 30, 2015

Donald J. Toumey ‘81, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, “Representing Financial Institutions During and After the Financial Crisis.”

April 6, 2015

John A. Levin ‘63, Chief Executive Officer, Levin Capital Strategies, LP, “Issues in Fair Disclosure and Shareholder Activism.”

April 16, 2015

Kimberley D. Harris ‘96, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, NBCUniversal, “ABC v. Aereo: Legal and Regulatory Challenges Facing the TV Business in a Digital Age.”

April 20, 2015

Andrew J. Ceresney ‘96, Director, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement, “The SEC’s Enforcement of Insider Trading Law: Opportunities and Challenges.”

April 23, 2015
Winter Lecture

Jeremy Stein, Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics, Harvard University, “The Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet and its Financial Stability Objectives.”

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April 27, 2015

Linda C. Goldstein ‘85, Partner and Co-Leader, White Collar and Securities Litigation Practice, Dechert LLP, “How to Litigate a Corporate Governance Dispute: A Case Study.”

April 28, 2015
Gregg Engles ‘82, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The WhiteWave Foods Company, “Law and Entrepreneurship: The Evolution of a Business Strategy.”