Monday, October 18

6:30PM

DEANS’ OPENING DINNER

Rosenthal Pavilion
Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South
New York University

OPENING ROUNDTABLE

Martin Lipton
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, New York University

WELCOME

Peter Blair Henry
Dean, New York University Stern School of Business

Richard L. Revesz
Dean, New York University School of Law

Zhang Weiying
Dean, Peking University Guanghua School of Management

Peter Williamson
Professor of International Management, Cambridge Judge Business School

Tuesday, October 19

8:00AM – 8:30AM

REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

Tishman Auditorium
Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South
New York University

8:30AM – 8:40AM

WELCOME

William T. Allen
Nusbaum Professor of Law and Business, New York University School of Law and Stern School of Business
Director, NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business

Peter Blair Henry
Dean, New York University Stern School of Business

8:40AM – 9:00AM

GLOBAL M&A AND STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS – MARKET OVERVIEW

Robin Panovka
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Franny Yao
Partner, Key Accounts & Government Relations (China), Ernst & Young

9:00AM – 10:00AM

THE POST-CRISIS WORLD ORDER – A NEW PARADIGM FOR CROSS-BORDER M&A, INVESTMENT, AND CAPITAL FLOWS?

Chen Dongsheng
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Taikang Life Insurance Co.

Ding Wei
Executive Chairman and Head of Investment Banking, China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC)

Joshua J. Harris
President and Founding Partner, Apollo Management LP

Martin Lipton
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Baron David de Rothschild
Chairman, N M Rothschild & Sons Limited

David M. Solomon
Co-Head of Investment Banking Division and Member of Management Committee, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

James Turley
Global Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Ernst & Young

Peter Williamson
Professor of International Management, Cambridge Judge Business School [Moderator]

10:00AM – 10:20AM

BREAK

10:20AM – 11:20AM

EMERGING COMPANIES GOING GLOBAL – ISSUES FOR TARGETS AND ACQUIRORS IN MAKING ACQUISITIONS IN DEVELOPED ECONOMIES

Juan Luís Cebrián Echárri
Chief Executive Officer, Grupo Prisa SA

Adam O. Emmerich
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz [Moderator]

Dr. Sanghoon Lee
President, Doosan Corporation

Nayan Gregory Parekh
Chief Executive Officer, New Rhein Healthcare LLC

Joseph R. Perella
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Perella Weinberg Partners

Bharat Vasani
Group General Counsel, The Tata Group

Wang Ran
Chief Executive Officer, China eCapital Corporation

Wu Bin
Chairman, ICBC Financial Services LLC
U.S. Head, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd.

11:20AM – 12:20PM

THE SEARCH FOR GROWTH IN EMERGING MARKETS – BRIC-BOUND M&A AND STRATEGIC INVESTMENT FOR MULTINATIONALS AND INVESTORS

William R. Berkley
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, New York University School of Law and Stern School of Business
Director, W.R. Berkley Corporation

Barry Diller
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, IAC/InterActiveCorp

Henry R. Kravis
Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

James J. Mulva
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, ConocoPhillips

Tim Payne
Managing Partner, Brunswick Group LLP [Moderator]

Ronald O. Perelman
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings Inc.
Chairman, Revlon, Inc.

Albert P.L. Stroucken
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Owens-Illinois, Inc.

12:30PM – 2:00PM

LUNCH

Greenberg Lounge

UNDERSTANDING CHINA’S ECONOMIC TRAJECTORY – OPPORTUNITIES AND HURDLES IN THE UPCOMING YEARS

Zhang Weiying
Dean, Peking University Guanghua School of Management

2:00PM – 3:00PM

THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN CROSS-BORDER TRANSACTIONS: WATCHDOG, FACILITATOR, DOMESTIC PROTECTOR, SOVEREIGN WEALTH INVESTOR?

William T. Allen
Nusbaum Professor of Law and Business, New York University School of Law and Stern School of Business
Director, NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business [Moderator]

Robert Hingley
Managing Director and co-Head of Financial Institutions Group (U.K.), Lazard Ltd
former Director General, UK Panel on Takeovers and Mergers

Andrew Low
Chief Executive Officer, RedBridge Pacific

Albert Ng
Managing Partner, Ernst & Young China

Leon Pasternak
Vice Chairman & Head of M&A (Australia), Merrill Lynch Bank of America

Zhang Weiying
Dean, Peking University Guanghua School of Management

James H. Zukin
Senior Managing Director & Chairman of Asia, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin

3:00PM – 3:10PM

INTERIM REPORT ON RESEARCH RESULTS OF XBMA PhD FELLOWS

3:10PM – 3:30PM

BREAK

3:30PM – 4:30PM

TOWARDS A FLATTER WORLD FOR BUSINESS EXPANSION, TRADE AND INVESTMENT

Lawrence Abeln
Deputy Director of Cambridge Judge Business School and Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Executive Education, Cambridge Judge Business School

Henry Cai
Chairman, Corporate Finance, Asia; Head of Corporate and Investment Bank in China, Deutsche Bank

Eric J. Gleacher
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gleacher & Company

Ken Miller
Managing Partner, Keylink Capital International [Moderator]

Dinesh C. Paliwal
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Harman International Industries

Barry F. Schwartz
Vice Chairman, MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings Inc.

Jeffrey Towson
Managing Partner, Saudi-China Investment Group

Artem Volynets
First Deputy Chief Executive Officer, EN+ Group; Member of the Board of Directors, RUSAL

4:30PM – 5:30PM

IMPACT OF GLOBAL REGULATORY CHANGES ON CROSS-BORDER INVESTMENT, M&A AND CAPITAL FLOWS

Dimitry Afanasiev
Chairman, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners

Roger C. Altman
Founder and Chairman, Evercore Partners
former Deputy Secretary of U.S. Treasury

Nigel P. G. Boardman
Partner, Slaughter and May [Moderator]

George Brokaw
Managing Director, Perry Capital, LLC

Raymond J. McGuire
Head, Global Banking, Citigroup, Inc.

Bruce D. Moore
Member of the Board of Directors, China Life Insurance Company

Richard H. Neiman
Superintendent of Banks, New York State Banking Department

Yo Takeuchi
Chief Financial Officer, Development Bank of Japan, Inc. (DBJ)

Wang Kejin
Deputy Director-General, China Banking Regulatory Commission

6:30PM

SPEAKERS’ CLOSING DINNER

University Club
1 West 54th Street
New York

LEGAL ROUNDTABLE
Special issues in cross-border M&A transactions
Hosted by NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business

Pollack Colloquium, Furman Hall
245 Sullivan Street
New York University

October 18, 2010
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

William T. Allen, Nusbaum Professor of Law and Business and
Director, New York University Pollack Center for Law and Business

  • Dimitry Afanasiev
    Chairman, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev and Partners (Moscow)
  • Nigel P. G. Boardman
    Partner, Slaughter and May (London)
  • Andrew R. Brownstein
    Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York)
  • Santiago Carregal
    Partner, Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal (Buenos Aires)
  • Martín Carrizosa
    Partner, Prieto & Carrizosa (Bogotá)
  • Ewen Crouch
    Chairman, Allens Arthur Robinson (Sydney)
  • Olivier Diaz
    Partner, Darrois Villey Maillot & Brochier (Paris)
  • Adam O. Emmerich
    Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York)
  • Sergio Erede
    Partner, Bonelli Erede Pappalardo (Milan)
  • Danny Gilbert
    Managing Partner, Gilbert & Tobin (Sydney)
  • Juan Miguel Goenechea Domínguez
    Partner, Uría & Menéndez (Madrid)
  • Juan Francisco Gutiérrez I.
    Partner, Philippi Yrarrázaval Pulido & Brunner (Santiago)
  • Christian Herbst
    Partner, Schönherr Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Vienna)
  • Masakazu Iwakura
    Partner, Nishimura & Asahi (Tokyo)
  • Michael Mervyn Katz
    Chairman, Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs (Johannesburg)
  • Handel Lee
    Partner, King & Wood (Beijing)
  • Martin Lipton
    Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York)
  • Sergio Michelsen Jaramillo
    Partner, Brigard & Urrutia (Bogotá)
  • Hiroshi Mitoma
    Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu (Tokyo)
  • Zia Mody
    Partner, AZB & Partners (Mumbai)
  • Christopher S. Murray
    Partner, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt (Toronto)
  • I. Berl Nadler
    Partner, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (Toronto)
  • Robin Panovka
    Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York)
  • Sang-Yeol Park
    Partner, Kim & Chang (Seoul)
  • Leon Pasternak
    Vice Chairman & Head of M&A (Australia), Merrill Lynch Bank of America (Sydney)
  • José Antonio Payet Puccio
    Partner, Payet Rey Cauvi (Lima)
  • Kees Peijster
    Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek N.V. (Amsterdam)
  • Juan Martín Perrotto
    Partner, Uría & Menéndez (Madrid/Beijing)
  • Philip Podzebenko
    Partner, Freehills (Sydney)
  • Lester Pollack
    Chairman and Founder, Centre Partners Management LLC (New York)
  • Geert Potjewijd
    Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (Amsterdam/Beijing)
  • Jack R. Rodman
    President, Global Distressed Solutions LLC (Beijing)
  • Alberto Saravalle
    Managing Partner, Bonelli Erede Pappalardo (Milan)
  • Shardul S. Shroff
    Managing Partner, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co. (New Delhi)
  • Anton G. Sitnikov
    Partner, Goltsblat BLP (Moscow)
  • Ezekiel Solomon
    Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson (Sydney)
  • Emanuel P. Strehle
    Partner, Hengeler Mueller (Munich)
  • David E. Tadmor
    Managing Partner, Tadmor & Co. (Tel Aviv)
  • Kevin J. Thomson
    Partner, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (Toronto)
  • Wang Junfeng
    Chairman of the Management Committee, King & Wood (Beijing)
  • Shuji Yanase
    Of Counsel, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu (Tokyo)
  • Alvin Yeo
    Senior Partner, WongPartnership LLP (Singapore)
  • Zhao Bing
    Partner, King & Wood (Beijing)