Harvard Convenes the M&A Roundtable

The Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance will convene its M&A roundtable later this week. The M&A Roundtable, which is supported by the Corporation Service Company, will bring together leading M&A experts, including from the judiciary, legal practice, investment banking and the investor community. The Roundtable will discuss current issues at the forefront of M&A policy and practice. In particular it will discuss (i) defenses to unsolicited offers, (ii) activism and responses, and (iii) negotiated transactions and deal protection. The participants in the M&A Roundtable will include:

  • Randall J. Baron, Senior Partner, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
  • George R. Bason, Partner and Global Head of M&A, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
  • Lucian Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, Harvard Law School
  • Richard Breeden, Chairman, Breeden Capital Management
  • Chris Cernich, Director of M&A and Proxy Fight Research, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.
  • Warren Chen, Managing Director, Glass Lewis & Co. LLC
  • Robert Clark, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor & Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  • Richard Climan, Partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
  • John C. Coates, John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School
  • Isaac D. Corré, Senior Managing Director, Eton Park Capital Management LP
  • David Fox, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
  • Jesse M. Fried, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  • Eduardo Gallardo, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
  • Mark D. Gerstein, Global Chair, Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Latham & Watkins LLP (Chicago and New York offices)
  • Mark Gordon, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
  • Larry Hamdan, Executive Chairman, Global M&A, Barclays Capital PLC
  • Scott Hirst, Executive Director of the Program on Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School
  • Jack B. Jacobs, Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware
  • Roy J. Katzovicz, Chief Legal Officer, Pershing Square Capital Management, LP
  • Reinier Kraakman, Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  • J. Travis Laster, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
  • Jack Levin, Senior Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
  • Raymond J. McGuire, Head of Global Banking, Citigroup Inc.
  • Alan Miller, Co-Chairman, Innisfree M&A Inc.
  • James C. Morphy, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
  • Francisco Müssnich, Founder, Barbosa, Müssnich & Aragão Advogados
  • Toby S. Myerson, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • Eileen Nugent, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
  • Morton Pierce, Vice Chair and Co-chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
  • Gerald Rosenfeld, Senior Advisor and Vice Chairman US Investment Banking, Lazard Ltd. and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, NYU Law School
  • Paul K. Rowe, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
  • Faiza Saeed, Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
  • Brian Schorr, Chief Legal Officer and Partner, Trian Fund Management, LP
  • Leo E. Strine, Jr., Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
  • Greg Taxin, Managing Member, Spotlight Advisors, LLC
  • Barry Volpert, Chairman and Co-Founder, Crestview Partners, LP
  • Marc Weingarten, Partner, Shulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • Jim Woolery, Co-Head of North America Mergers & Acquisitions, J.P. Morgan
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