Thursday, March 1st

8:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.

Corporate Governance I (Arrowhead I)

• Susan Bokermann, Discussant
• Dorothy Lund, The Case Against Passive Shareholder Voting
• Greg Shill, The Independent Board as Shield
• Kish Parella, Public Relations Litigation

M&A I (Arrowhead II)

• Curt Anderson, Discussant
• Rob Anderson & Jeff Manns, Contract Theory and the Delaware Default: Evidence from M&A Transactions
• Minor Myers, What Drives “Private Ordering” in M&A Litigation?
• Gabriel Rauterberg, The Poison Pill and Hostile Takeover Market in Canada: An Empirical and Doctrinal Analysis

Empirical Studies of Contract Design (Painted Horse I and II)

• Pam Morgan, Discussant
• Adam Badawi, Lawyers, Law Firms, and the Production of Legal Information
• Matt Jennejohn, Disrupting Relational Contracts
• Jeremy McClane, Assessing the Features of Merger and Acquisition Agreements

9:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m

Contract Design (Arrowhead I)

• Susan Bokermann, Discussant
• Megan Shaner, Interpreting Organizational “Contracts” and the Private Ordering of Public Company Governance
• Abe Cable, Searching for Trados in Silicon Valley Dealmaking: A Preliminary Report
• Cathy Hwang & Matt Jennejohn, Deal Structure

Debt Contracting (Arrowhead II)

• Pam Morgan, Discussant
• Marcel Kahan, Sovereign Debt and Moral Hazard: The Role of Collective Action and Contractual Ambiguity
• Aditi Bagchi, Judicially Engineered Uncertainty:  Comparing Material Adverse Change Clauses in Loan Agreements and Merger Agreements
• Tony Casey, The Bankruptcy Partition
• Sean Griffith, Dead Hand Proxy Puts, Hedge Fund Activism, and the Cost of Capital

Corporate Governance II (Painted Horse I and II)

• Matt Jennejohn, Discussant
• Elizabeth Pollman, Startup Governance
• Jeff Schwartz, De Facto Shareholder Primacy
• Summer Kim, De-Democratization of Firms

4:00 p.m. – 5:20 p.m.

M&A II (Arrowhead I and II)

• Kathy Ku, Discussant
• Eric Talley, Appraisal Arbitrage and Shareholder Value
• Adam Badawi & Elisabeth de Fontenay, Is There A First-Drafter Advantage in M&A
• George Triantis & Albert Choi, The Design of Staged Contracting

Valuation and Judicial Scrutiny (Painted Horse I and II)

• Brad Sorrels, Discussant
• Bobby Bartlett, The Misuse of Tobin’s Q
• Rob Daines, Can Staggered Boards Improve Value?
• Iman Anabtawi, The Twilight of Enhanced Scrutiny in Delaware M&A Jurisprudence
• Charlie Korsmo, Delaware’s Retreat from the Judicial Scrutiny of Mergers