Corporate governance experts to visit UD for Weinberg Center's 2016 symposium

11:36 a.m., Feb. 29, 2016--The University of Delaware community is invited to attend the 2016 Corporate Governance Symposium hosted by the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at UD’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics on Tuesday, March 15.

The symposium will take place at UD’s Clayton Hall and will provide attendees with cutting edge governance discussion and debate, and will begin with a panel of pubic company directors, investors, proxy advisory firms, other representatives from the corporate and investor community, and the Delaware judiciary, including:

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• Les A. Brun, chairman and chief executive officer of Sarr Group, LLC; chairman of the board, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. and CDK Global Inc.; director, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, Merck and Co. Inc. and NXT Capital Inc.
• Margaret M. Foran, chief governance officer, senior vice president and corporate secretary, Prudential Financial Inc.; director, Occidental Petroleum Corp.
• Michael Garland, assistant comptroller for environmental, social and governance, New York City Office of the Comptroller.
• J. Travis Laster, vice chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery.
• Robert M. McCormick, chief policy officer, Glass Lewis and Co.
• Patrick S. McGurn, special counsel and head of strategic research and analysis, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS).
• Allie Rutherford, principal, CamberView Partners LLC.
• Thomas Sandall, Sandell Asset Management Corp.
• Anne Sheehan, director of corporate governance, California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS).

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. Chair of Corporate Governance, director of the Weinberg Center and professor of finance, will moderate the discussion, which will ask each panelist to share what matters most to them in 2016.

The symposium will continue with a special academic paper presentation by Lucien Bebchuk, who is the William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance and director of the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School.

Bebchuk’s presentation will be followed by the presentation of three academic papers on topics of critical importance to boards and institutional investors today. These papers include:

• “Shareholder Power and Corporate Innovation: Evidence from Hedge Fund Activism” by Alon Brav, Duke University (presenter); Wei Jang, Columbia University; Song Ma, Duke University; Xuan Tian, Indiana University (Bloomington). Discussant: Sabastian V. Niles, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz.
• “Who Controls Corporate Charters? Shareholder Activism and Corporate Charter Amendments?” by Geeyoung Min, University of Virginia Law School (presenter). Discussant: Myron T. Steel, Potter, Anderson and Corroon, and former chief justice, Delaware Supreme Court.
• “Banker Loyalty in Mergers and Acquisitions” by Andrew F. Tuch, Washington University School of Law (presenter). Discussant: J. Travis Laster, vice chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery.

The 2016 Corporate Governance Symposium is free to attend. Click here to register.