Events

"Is There MFW Creep? (And, if so, in Which Direction?)," 2023 Conference on Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Governance hosted by Columbia Law School

December 8, 2023 at 9:00am
Lerner Roone Arledge Auditorium

2920 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Young Conaway Corporate Litigation and Counseling Partner Elena Norman will be speaking at the 2023 Conference on Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Governance hosted by Columbia Law School on Friday, December 8th. The event brings together academics, prominent practitioners, economists, and judges to discuss various legal updates.

Ms. Norman will be participating in a panel discussion about oral argument in In re Match Group, a significant case before the Delaware Supreme Court that will feature an important question - briefed for the first time on appeal - involving the MFW case and controller fiduciary claims. 

Ms. Norman will be joined on the panel by: 

  • Eduardo Gallardo, Partner, Paul Hastings, LLP;
  • Zohar Goshen, Jerome L. Greene Professor of Transactional Law and Director of the Center for Israeli Legal Studies, Columbia Law School;
  • Jeroen van Kwawegen, Partner,Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP;
  • Eric Talley, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, Columbia Law School; and 
  • Mike Leonard, Reporter, Bloomberg Law, Moderator.

The event is co-sponsored by the school’s Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, the Columbia Law School Center on Corporate Governance, and the law firms of Paul Hastings LLP and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.  To register, visit Summary - Conference on M&A and Corporate Governance (cvent.com).