Inaugural institutes to attract legal experts
BY LAUREN BARTLETT
UCLA Today
Some of the world’s most experienced mergers and acquisitions
lawyers, judges, government officials and investment bankers will
gather Feb. 27-March 2 for the UCLA School of Law’s inaugural
institutes on mergers and acquisitions.
There will be three inaugural institutes focusing on issues related
to corporate, securities and related aspects; U.S. and European
Union (EU) antitrust aspects; and tax aspects. Professionals from
around the country will flock to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Marina
del Rey for “Seven Days of M&A at UCLA.”
“The inaugural institutes provide an outstanding opportunity
for participants to hear from premier professionals in the field
of mergers and acquisitions,” said Samuel C. Thompson Jr.,
professor of law and director of the UCLA Law Center for the Study
of Mergers and Acquisitions.
Martin Lipton, the inventor of the “poison pill” defense
strategy and a founding partner of the law firm Wachtell, Lipton,
Rosen & Katz, will be the keynote speaker for the first institute.
It will focus on corporate, securities and related aspects of mergers
and acquisitions.
The institute will also highlight recent developments in Delaware
corporate law affecting mergers and acquisitions. The Delaware judiciary
is the focal point for corporate law issues, and three Delaware
judges will lead the panel.
The U.S. and EU antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions
will be the focus of the second institute, which will examine the
essential elements of antitrust merger enforcement. Mario Monti,
antitrust com-missioner of the European Commission, and R. Hewitt
Pate, assistant attorney general in the antitrust division of the
U.S. Department of Justice, will be the institute’s keynote
speakers.
The third institute will focus on the tax aspects of mergers and
acquisitions. The “ins and outs” of tax considerations
arising in mergers, acquisitions and related transactions —
such as joint ventures — will be examined. Keynote speakers
will be George Yin, chief of staff, Joint Committee on Tax-ation,
and Gregory F. Jenner, acting deputy assistant secretary for tax
policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
For more information about the institutes, go to www.law.ucla.edu/centerma.
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