Shareholder Engagement: What is 'Appropriate'?

Date

Location

Securities and Exchange Commission Washington DC

The theme of the eighth conference in the series, which took place in Washington at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington D.C. on Thursday, 15th December 2011, was Shareholder Engagement: What is 'Appropriate'?.

With Poland holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the organisers are most grateful for the support of the Polish Embassy in Washington and for the sponsorship of the 2011 conference by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

 

Programme

Thursday, 15th December 2011
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Registration and continental breakfast

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Coffee

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Lunch

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Session 4 - Hedge Fund Activism and 'Patient Capital'

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Coffee

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Session 5 - Barriers to Institutional Investor Engagement

Moderator

Speakers

Ronald Gilson

Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business
Columbia Law School & Stanford Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Marco Becht

Professor of Finance and the Goldschmidt Professor of Corporate Governance
Solvay Brussels School for Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles
Fellow, Research Member

Jeffrey Gordon

Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership
Columbia Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Julian Franks

Professor of Finance
London Business School
Fellow, Research Member

Katharina Pistor

Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Edward Rock

Martin Lipton Professor of Law
NYU Law
Fellow, Research Member

Luigi Zingales

Robert C. McCormack Professor Entrepreneurship & Finance
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Fellow, Research Member
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