Upcoming Events
“Lawyering Across Public and Private Markets” with Matthew Bloom ’08, General Counsel, Viking Global Investors LP
Please join us for a Marvin A. Chirelstein Colloquium with Matthew Bloom ’08, where he will discuss the complexities of being General Counsel to a crossover manager like Viking Global Investors LP. Matthew will also speak to his path to becoming General Counsel, including the skills and knowledge that he needed to obtain.
This Colloquium is off the record and not open to press.
“The Contrarian Path: From Law School to Value Investing” with Jeffrey Miyamoto ’19 (J.D./M.B.A.), Investment Analyst, Orbis Investments
Curious about investment management? Please join us for a Marvin A. Chirelstein Colloquium with Jeffrey Miyamoto '19, where he will discuss what it means to hold a contrarian perspective, and how that mindset helped him and his colleagues at Orbis Investments identify profitable opportunities in sectors that prevailing sentiment had dismissed — namely, the Asian defense industry and movie theaters. He will also speak to how this perspective carried him from the Law School to the Yale School of Management, and ultimately to the buy side.
This Colloquium is off the record and not open to press.
New Initiatives at the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance: A Conversation with Director Jim Moloney
A Craig Wasserman ’86/Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Alumni Breakfast
Song Ma, Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, Yale School of Management
Bert W. Wasserman Workshop.
David H. Autor, Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor, MIT, Department of Economics
John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellow Lecture.
“The Unique History of Bank Corporate Governance in the U.S.” with Charles W. Calomiris of Columbia Business School
Judge Ralph K. Winter Lectureship on Corporate Law and Governance.
Charles W. Calomiris is Henry Kaufman Professor Emeritus of Financial Institutions in the Faculty of Business and Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs at Columbia Business School, Director of the Business School’s Program for Financial Studies Initiative on Finance and Growth in Emerging Markets, and a professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.
“Never a Dull Moment: A Conversation About a Career in White Collar and Investigations with Nancy Kestenbaum ’90 of Covington & Burling LLP”
Marvin A. Chirelstein Colloquium.
Nancy Kestenbaum ’90 is a YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law and Partner and Co-Chair of White Collar Defense and Investigations at Covington & Burling LLP.
This Colloquium is off the record and not open to press.
Commercial Litigation Funding: How Does it Affect the Litigation Landscape?
A Craig Wasserman ’86/Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Alumni Breakfast
“Two Stories of Corporate Governance” with Douglas G. Baird, Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School
Judge Ralph K. Winter Lectureship on Corporate Law and Governance.
An In-House Point of View: Handling Government and Internal Investigations
A Hilibrand Series panel, featuring Brooke Cucinella (Citadel & Citadel Securities), Mei Lin Kwan-Gett ’92 (Citigroup), Jonathan Leiken (Danaher), David Pitofsky (News Corp.), and moderator David Zornow '80.
Commercial Litigation Funding: Challenges, Opportunities, and Current Developments
Featuring Jason Bertoldi ’15 (Alliant Insurance Services), Maria Glover (Georgetown University Law Center), Erika Levin (Fox Rothschild LLP), William C. Marra (Certum Group), and moderator Victoria Cundiff ’80 (Sedona Conference Working Group 12 on Trade Secrets Law, YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law, and Center Fellow).
A Conversation with Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney for SDNY and Former SEC Chair (2017-2020)
A Craig Wasserman ’86/Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Alumni Breakfast
Women in Corporate Law Panel
Please join the Center and the Yale Journal on Regulation for an exciting panel featuring attorneys from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Our panelists will discuss their journeys to Wachtell and their experiences in corporate law.
Support provided by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and the Charles M. Nathan 1965 Fund for the Study of Corporate and Commercial Law at Yale Law School.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable
Paper presentations:
Columbia Bus. School Prof. Bo Cowgill on “Political Power and Market Power”
U. of Chicago Visiting Assistant Prof. of Finance William Cassidy and Harvard Bus. School Associate Prof. of Finance Elisabeth Kempf on “Partisan Corporate Speech”
Afternoon panel discussion on “Capital Market Competitiveness: Global Rise in Private Capital Markets, Decline in Public Companies, and their Evolving Listing Choices.”
The Roundtable is subject to the Center’s Program Rules.
“Coaches or Cops? The Transatlantic Recasting of Regulatory Agencies” with YLS Emeritus Prof. Susan Rose-Ackerman and Norwegian School of Economics Prof. Tina Søreide
Bert W. Wasserman Workshop.
Open to invited guests only.
“Life as a Private Equity General Counsel: A Conversation with Agnieszka Rafalska ’12, Head of Legal M&A (North America), EQT Group”
Marvin A. Chirelstein Colloquium.
This Colloquium is off the record and not open to press.
“Continuity vs. Disruption: Leading a Major Law Firm Today” with Robert J. Giuffra Jr. ’87
Robert J. Giuffra Jr. ’87 is Co-Chair of Sullivan & Cromwell and a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group. He has served on Sullivan & Cromwell’s Management Committee since 2007. Mr. Giuffra joined the Firm in 1989 after serving as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Ralph Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He focuses on “bet-the-company,” securities, white-collar criminal, product liability, commercial, insurance, banking and tax litigation.
Marvin A. Chirelstein Colloquium.
This Colloquium is off the record and not open to press.
“From Law to Money Stuff: A Conversation with Matt Levine '04 of Bloomberg Opinion”
David M. Zornow '80, YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law, Fellow of the YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law, and Of Counsel, White Collar Defense and Investigations, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, will moderate the conversation.
Other Lectures. Support provided by the Hilibrand Foundation and the Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership.
This event is not open to press.
“Life Lessons from a Tax Lawyer” with Mark Campisano ’80
Please join us for a conversation with Mark Campisano ’80, General Counsel of the Veritas Forum. Mark previously served as Head of Corporate Tax at Pacific Life, Head of Tax Planning at TIAA-CREF, and General Tax Counsel for McKinsey & Company.
Other Lectures. Open to the YLS community only.
This event is off the record and not open to press.
“How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law” with Nancy Liao ’05, Executive Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Other Lectures. Open to the YLS community only.
“An Industry Transformed: Strategy, Law, and the Business of Financial Services M&A” with Seth Lloyd ’08
Seth Lloyd ’08 is a Partner and the Co-Head of North American Financial Institutions at Centerview Partners LLC. He has spent his career working with financial services firms on key strategic, operational, and financial matters, including strategic planning, mergers & acquisitions, capital raising, investor communications, and activist defense. Mr. Lloyd has advised banks, financial technology firms, asset and wealth managers, and specialty finance companies.
Marvin A. Chirelstein Colloquium.
This Colloquium is off the record and not open to press.
“Private Equity Comes to Hospice” with Drexel Law Prof. Barry R. Furrow
Join us for a talk with Professor Barry R. Furrow about the growing financialization of hospice care and the risks for vulnerable residents.
Support provided by the Charles M. Nathan 1965 Fund for the Study of Corporate and Commercial Law at Yale Law School (2006).
“Current Issues and Trends in Shareholder Activism” with Eleazer Klein ’91
Eleazer (“Ele”) Klein ’91 is Chair of the M&A and Securities Group, Chair of the Global Shareholder Activism Group, and a member of the Executive Committee at McDermott Will & Schulte. He works on numerous activist campaigns and related transactions every year for some of the largest private investment groups and investment banks in the United States and abroad. Ele is recognized as a 2022 American Lawyer “Dealmaker of the Year” for his work at Exxon Mobil for Engine No. 1, the largest proxy fight in history, which resulted in the addition of three directors to the ExxonMobil board of directors.
Marvin A. Chirelstein Colloquium.
This Colloquium is off the record and not open to press.
A Conversation with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce ’97
A Craig Wasserman ’86/Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Alumni Breakfast
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable
Featuring:
Paper presentations by U. Chicago Law Prof. Vincent Buccola of “Getting to Yes: The Role of Coercion in Debt Renegotiations” and by Berkeley Law Prof. Adam Badawi of “ESG Overperformance? Assessing the Use of ESG Targets in Executive Compensation Plans.”
Afternoon panel discussion on “Fiduciary Duties and the Contractarian Turn in Corporate Law.”
Martin Schmalz, Professor of Finance, Economics, and Real Estate, University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, “Market-Based Incentives for Optimal Audit Quality.”
Bert W. Wasserman Workshop.
The complete paper is available here.
“AI: The Magic, Some Realities, and the Future”
Featuring Sayoko Blodgett-Ford ’94, Cynthia Cwik '87, Sam Mandel ’87, and moderator Victoria Cundiff '80.
“Fiscal Influences on Inflation in OECD Countries, 2020-2023” with Robert J. Barro, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Judge Ralph K. Winter Lectureship on Corporate Law and Governance.
“Who Calls the Shots in Delaware? The Evolving Tug of War between Boards, Controllers, and Judges”
A Craig Wasserman ’86/Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Alumni Breakfast
“Perspectives on Internal Investigations: How and When Corporations Should Identify, Investigate, and Self-Report Wrongdoing”
A Hilibrand Series panel, featuring Brent Wible '03, Michael Bosworth ’03, Nancy Kestenbaum ’90, and moderator David Zornow '80.