TCGD2005 - Programme

Corporate Board Elections
and
Internal Controls

27th September 2005
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

A free all-day conference co-sponsored by the American Law Institute and the European Corporate Governance Institute

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8.00-8.30am	Registration and coffee
8.30-8.45am	Welcome Thomas C. Baxter, Jr. General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
	Introduction Michael Traynor President of the American Law Institute and Senior Counsel, Cooley Godward LLP Antonio Borges Chairman, European Corporate Governance Institute and Vice-Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
Session 1– Keynote speech
8.45-9.30am	Keynote speaker William J. McDonough Chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Q&A
9.30-9.45am	Coffee
Session 2– Corporate Board Elections
9.45-11.30am	Moderator Roberta C. Ramo Shareholder, Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk P.A.; 1st Vice President, The American Law Institute Briefings Board elections in the United States Robert Mundheim Of Counsel to Shearman & Sterling Board elections in Europe Professor Guido Ferrarini Professor of Law, University of Genoa; Vice Chairman of the ECGI and ECGI Fellow Panel Martin Lipton Founding partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Klaus J. Hopt Professor and Director, Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg; Board member of the ECGI and ECGI Fellow James H. Cheek III Partner, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC B. Espen Eckbo Tuck Centennial Professor of Finance and Founding Director, Center for Corporate Governance, Dartmouth College; ECGI Research Associate
11.30am-1.00pm	lunch (provided at no cost to delegates)
Session 3– Keynote speech
1.00-1.45pm	Keynote Address Alexander Schaub Director General, European Commission, DG Internal Market Q&A
Session 4– Internal Controls
1.45-3.30pm	Moderator Myles V. Lynk Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and the Legal Profession, Arizona State University Briefings Internal Control in the United States John C. Coffee Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia University; ECGI Fellow Internal Control in Europe David Devlin President, Fédération des Experts Comptables Européens (FEE) Panel Pierre Delsaux Head of Unit and Acting Director, DG Markt, European Commission Paul Saffert Allianz AG Alan L. Beller Director, Division of Corporate Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Charles W. Gerdts, III General Counsel, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Session 5– Floor discussion and summing up
3.30-4.15pm	Summing up Lance Liebman William S. Beinecke Professor of Law, Columbia University, Director of the American Law Institute Marco Becht Professor of Finance and Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles; ECGI Executive Director

4.30-6.00pm	Post-conference reception Venue: Federal Reserve Bank of New York