Columbia Law School Conference on M&A and Corporate Governance - Panel 3 | Controlling Shareholders

The Columbia Law School annual Conference on M&A and Corporate Governance was held on 22 November 2024. It gathered speakers from academia, the judiciary, and the legal and finance industries to explore relevant issues in M&A and corporate governance, including implications of the US election for M&A. Topics of conversation included the state of shareholder activism, legislative and regulatory developments affecting dealmaking, and Delaware law regarding controlling shareholders.

The final panel of the day, "Controlling Shareholders" was moderated by Zohar Goshen, Jerome L. Greene Professor of Transactional Law, Columbia Law School and panelists comprised of:

• Stephen Fraidin (Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP) 
• Hon. Jack B. Jacobs (Former Justice, Delaware Supreme Court)
• Mark Lebovitch (Former Partner, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP) 
• Ann M. Lipton (Michael M. Fleishman Professor in Business Law and Entrepreneurship, Tulane University Law School)  
• Daniel Slifkin (Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP)