Conferences 2017-2018

April 19, 2018

• Held in collaboration with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

December 4, 2017

• Co-sponsored with the Center for Global Enterprise and in collaboration with the National Association of Corporate Directors

Columbia University’s Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy and the Center for Global Enterprise have developed and introduced new analytics that can help corporations anticipate engaged investor interest. The analytical methods are based on statistical review of engaged investor behavior against companies over time. This event will include presentation of the analytical methods and its capability to help companies anticipate engaged and activist investor interest in particular firms. Discussion of the work will include comments by representatives of Columbia University Law School, the Richman Center and the Center for Global Enterprise. The discussion will inform the listener of key factors in corporate financial performance that draw the interest of engaged investors. It will also review the work at Columbia to develop statistical analysis methods to identify those corporations that may draw the interest of such investors. This will be of importance to senior corporate officers, board members, legal department leaders, chief financial officers, heads of investor relations of corporations, and investors.

Participants

• Jesse J. Greene, Senior Fellow at the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy
• Samuel J. Palmisano, Chairman of the Center for Global Enterprise
• Jeff Gordon, Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
• Shane Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Project Director at the Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy
• 25 years of M&A, corporate finance, and principal investing experience at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Credit Suisse
• Christopher G. Caine, President of the Center for Global Enterprise