The Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital
ABOUT THE EVENT
The DFG LawFin Center at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, the LSE Law School, the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford, and the Institute for Law & Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, along with the Oxford Business Law Blog and ECGI, were pleased to announce, as part of the Oxford Business Law Blog Annual Conferences Series, the annual conference “The Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital.”
This year, the conference took place on 22-23 June 2023 in Oxford as an in-person, by-invitation-only event. The focus was on academic research, with participation from relevant practitioners, industry representatives, and policymakers. The conference highlighted interdisciplinary research of the highest scholarly quality in the field of private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC), broadly defined, including topics such as: PE/VC and corporate law, governance of PE/VC-backed firms, regulation of PE/VC funds, PE/VC and ESG/sustainability, comparative PE/VC law.
Organisers:
- Luca Enriques (University of Oxford and ECGI)
- Jill E. Fisch (Penn Carey Law, University of Pennsylvania and ECGI)
- Geneviève Helleringer (Essec Business School Paris, University of Oxford, and ECGI)
- David Kershaw (LSE Law School and ECGI)
- Casimiro A. Nigro (LawFin, Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Elizabeth Pollman (Penn Carey Law, University of Pennsylvania and ECGI)
- Tobias H. Tröger (LawFin, Goethe University Frankfurt, SAFE and ECGI)
- Simon Witney (LSE Law School)
Programme
Welcome
Session 1: Public and Private Markets | Chaired by
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Session 2: Corporate Law and PE & VC Investment | Chaired by
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Break
Risk-Seeking Governance
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Trados 10 Years On
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Pre-Dinner Drinks
Dinner | Keynote Speech by
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Session 3: The Social Aspects of PE & VC | Chaired by
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ESG Transparency of Private Equity and Debt Firms
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Break
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Lunch
Session 4: A Closer Look into the PE & VC Machinery | Chaired by
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Law Firm Expertise and Global VC Investments
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High-Class Conflicts
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Break
Session 5: Debt Finance and PE & VC | Chaired by
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CVC-backed Start-up Failure
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Concluding Remarks
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Adriana Robertson
Thomas Hellmann
Jill Fisch
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