TCGD2007 - Edited transcripts and video recordings

	Corporate Governance Standards and Capital Market Competitiveness
	9th October 2007 Securities and Exchange Commission Washington DC
A free all-day conference co-sponsored by the American Law Institute and the European Corporate Governance Institute
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Introduction		6 mins 0 secs
Antonio Borges Chairman, European Corporate Governance Institute; Vice-Chairman, Goldman Sachs International Lance Liebman Director of the American Law Institute; William S. Beinecke Professor of Law, Columbia University

Session 1 – Keynote speech		38 mins 54 secs
Christopher Cox Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission Questions & Answers

Session 2 – Empirical Finance		83 mins 17 secs
Moderator Roberta Cooper Ramo Shareholder, Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk P.A.; 1st Vice President and President Designate, The American Law Institute Panel René Stulz Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics; Director of the Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics, Ohio State University; ECGI Fellow Luigi Zingales Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business; ECGI Fellow

Session 3 – Keynote speech		48 mins 11 secs
Eddy Wymeersch Chairman, Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) Questions & Answers

Session 4– Comparative Law
Moderator Luca Enriques Commissioner, Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa; ECGI Research Associate Briefing Howell E. Jackson James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Panel John C. Coffee Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; ECGI Fellow Eilís Ferran Professor of Company and Securities Law, University of Cambridge Law Faculty and Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law; ECGI Research Associate		79 mins 36 secs

Session 5 – Making Corporate Governance work across the Atlantic
Moderator Michael Traynor Senior Counsel, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP President of the American Law Institute Panel Pierre Delsaux Director, Free Movement of Capital, Company Law and Corporate Governance, DG, Internal Market and Services, European Commission Harvey Goldschmid Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; former Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission Paul Sarbanes Former US Senator; co-sponsor of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Jaap Winter Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek		76 mins 48 secs

Session 6 – Summing up		13 mins 20 secs
Marco Becht Professor of Finance and Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles; ECGI Executive Director Lance Liebman Director of the American Law Institute; William S. Beinecke Professor of Law, Columbia University


The ALI and the ECGI are grateful for support for the 2007 Conference from

	The European Commission