Open to invited guests and the Yale community.
The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law invites you to the 2024-2025 Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided. New York State CLE credits will be available, as described further below.
Papers and readings for the panel discussion will be posted on the Center’s website by Friday, March 28, 2025.
Morning Program
9:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m.
Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:55 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Welcome by Heather Gerken, YLS Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law
10:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.
Paper Presentation I: “Getting to Yes: The Role of Coercion in Debt Renegotiations”
Paper Presenter:
Vincent S.J. Buccola, Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School
Discussants:
G. Mitu Gulati, Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law, The University of Virginia School of Law
Stewart A. Kagan ’85, Partner, Finance, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Moderator:
Edward Janger, David M. Barse Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
11:20 a.m. to 11:35 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:35 a.m. to 12:55 p.m.
Paper Presentation II: “ESG Overperformance? Assessing the Use of ESG Targets in Executive Compensation Plans”
Paper Presenter:
Adam B. Badawi, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Discussants:
Dhruv Aggarwal (J.D. ’21/Ph.D. ’23), Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and Assistant Professor of Finance (Courtesy), Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Marc Treviño ’93, Co-Head of Corporate Governance Practice and Managing Partner, Executive Compensation Group, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Moderator:
Kelly Shue, Amman Mineral Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management.
Afternoon Program
12:55 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.
Lunch
1:20 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.
Panel Discussion: “Fiduciary Duties and the Contractarian Turn in Corporate Law”
Panelists:
Stephen Fraidin ’64, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Dorothy S. Lund, Columbia 1982 Alumna Professor of Law, Columbia Law School W. Bentley MacLeod, Visiting Professor and Senior Research Scientist, Yale University, Department of Economics, and Sami Mnaymneh Professor Emeritus of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs Emeritus, Columbia University
Sarath Sanga ’14, YLS Professor of Law and Co-Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Moderator:
Roberta Romano ’80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Co-Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
CLE Credit
Yale Law School has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of CLE programs. The following credits are available:
1.5 CLE credit hours in Professional Practice for attending the entirety of Paper Presentation I (Getting to Yes: The Role of Coercion in Debt Renegotiations) from 10:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.;
1.5 CLE credit hours in Professional Practice for attending the entirety of Paper Presentation II (ESG Overperformance? Assessing the Use of ESG Targets in Executive Compensation Plans) from 11:35 a.m. to 12:55 p.m.; and
2.0 CLE credit hours in Professional Practice for attending the entirety of the Afternoon Panel Discussion (Fiduciary Duties and the Contractarian Turn in Corporate Law) from 1:20 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.
The above CLE credit hours are appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. Preregistration is required for CLE credit. You must be present for the entirety of a session to receive CLE credit; we cannot provide CLE credit for partial session attendance. CLE reading materials will be posted on the Center’s website by Friday, March 28, 2025.