2023-2024 Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable

Dec. 1, 2023
9:00AM - 3:30PM
Registration: SLB Room 122; Roundtable: SLB Room 120
Open to the Yale Community

The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law invites you to the 2023-2024 Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable.

* Breakfast and lunch will be provided.  New York State CLE credits will be available, as described further below.

** Papers and readings for the panel discussion will be posted on the Center's website by Friday, November 17, 2023.

*** Please register by Tuesday, November 21, 2023.

Morning Program
9:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m.Continental Breakfast and Registration.
9:55 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.Welcome by Heather Gerken, YLS Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law.
10:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.

Paper Presentation I: “Follow the Pipeline: Anticipatory Effects of Proposed Regulations” by Joseph Kalmenovitz, Assistant Professor of Finance, Simon Business School, University of Rochester.

Discussants: Adriana Z. Robertson (J.D. ’15/Ph.D. ’17), Donald N. Pritzker Professor of Business Law, The University of Chicago Law School and Sarath Sanga ’14, YLS Professor of Law and Co-Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law. 

Moderator: Ian Ayres '86, YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law.

11:20 a.m. to 11:35 a.m.Coffee Break.
11:35 a.m. to 12:55 p.m.

Paper Presentation II: “Destabilizing Digital ‘Bank Walks’” by Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Discussants: William B. English, Eugene F. Williams, Jr. Professor of the Practice of Finance, Yale School of Management and Natasha Sarin, YLS Associate Professor of Law.

Moderator: Jonathan R. Macey '82, YLS Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law.

Afternoon Program
12:55 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.Lunch.
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Panel Discussion: “Lessons Learned from a Post-Mortem of the Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse Failures” with Viral V. Acharya, C.V. Starr Professor of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business and Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India (2017-2019); Randall D. Guynn, Chair, Financial Institutions Practice, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP; Andrew Metrick, Janet L. Yellen Professor of Finance and Management, Yale School of Management; and Sir Paul Tucker, Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School, author, Unelected Power and Global Discord, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (2009-2013), and Chair of the Systemic Risk Council (2016-2021). 

Moderator: Roberta Romano '80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Co-Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law.

  • CLE Credit.

Yale Law School has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of CLE programs. The following credits are available:

  • 1.5 CLE credit hours in Professional Practice for attending the entirety of Paper Presentation I (Follow the Pipeline: Anticipatory Effects of Proposed Regulations) from 10:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.;
  • 1.5 CLE credit hours in Professional Practice for attending the entirety of Paper Presentation II (Destabilizing Digital ‘Bank Walks’) from 11:35 a.m. to 12:55 p.m.; and
  • 2.0 CLE credit hours in Professional Practice for attending the entirety of the Panel Discussion (Lessons Learned from a Post-Mortem of the Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse Failures) from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The above CLE credit hours are appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. Preregistration is required for CLE credit; please tell us whether you would like CLE credit when you register. You must be present for the entirety of the paper presentation or panel discussion to receive CLE credit for that session; we cannot give CLE credit for partial session attendance. CLE reading materials will be posted on the Center’s website by Friday, November 17, 2023.

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law