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Creation Date
4-14-2015
Description
Symposium: Limiting Shareholder Rights
Entrenching Management or Establishing Commitments?
April 14, 2015
Notre Dame Law School
Sponsored by the Program on Law and Market Behavior (LAMB).
PLEASE JOIN US This LAMB conference will bring together a panel of experts, scholars in corporate law and finance and practicing lawyers, to present new empirical evidence in the area of shareholder rights and discuss its implications for corporate law and governance. ALL ARE WELCOME! CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
12:30 pm Opening Remarks Avishalom Tor, Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School, and Director of the Program on Law and Market Behavior (LAMB)
12:40 pm Presentation of Papers “Staggered Boards and Firm Value, Revisited,” Simone Sepe, Associate Professor of Law and Finance, University of Arizona College of Law and “The Bonding Hypothesis of Takeover Defenses: Evidence from IPO Firms,” William C. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Finance, Suffolk University, Sawyer Business School
1:40 pm Coffee Break 2:00 pm Presentation of Papers “The Empirical Evidence on Limiting Shareholder Rights,” Robert J. Jackson, Jr., Professor of Law and Milton Handler Fellow, Columbia Law School
2:30 pm Roundtable Discussion Moderated by Martijn Cremers, Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business
3:25 pm Closing Remarks and Audience Question and Answer Professor Martijn Cremers
SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE
K.J. Martijn Cremers Professor of Finance, Mendoza College of Business and LAMB Faculty Fellow, University of Notre Dame (moderator)
Robert J. Jackson, Jr. Professor of Law and Milton Handler Fellow, Columbia Law School
William C. Johnson Assistant Professor of Finance, Suffolk University, Sawyer Business School
Trevor S. Norwitz Partner, Watchell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Lecturer, Columbia Law School
Simone Sepe Associate Professor of Law and Finance, University of Arizona College of Law
Avishalom Tor Professor of Law and Director, Research Program on Law and Market Behavior, Notre Dame Law School
Julian Velasco Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School