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2011 DIRECTORS' INSTITUTE
FRIDAY, MAY 6th, 2011
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

[Link to Brochure](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/uat_026332.pdf)

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: A NEW GOVERNANCE LANDSCAPE?

8:15 a.m. REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST

8:30 a.m. WELCOMING REMARKS
Richard Revesz, Dean, NYU School of Law

8:35 – 8:45 a.m. OVERVIEW OF CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS
William R. Berkley, Chairman and CEO, W. R. Berkley Corp.

8:45 – 9:30 a.m. UPDATE ON THE ECONOMY FROM THE NEW YORK FED
Joseph S. Tracy, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

9:30 – 10:15 a.m. FIRST PRINCIPLES AS AN ANTIDOTE TO PROSECUTION
Preet Bharara, US Attorney, Southern District of New York

10:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. ASK MARTY LIPTON: CORPORATE LAW & GOVERNANCE Q&A
Chair: William T. Allen, Director, NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business
Panelist: Martin Lipton, Senior Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. CORPORATE M&A IN THE BOARDROOM
Chair: Mark Gordon, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Panelists: Peter Crnkovich, Managing Director & Chairman of Global Healthcare, Morgan Stanley
David Harding, Senior Partner & Leader of Global Corporate M&A Practice, Bain & Co.

1:00 – 2:30 p.m. LUNCH WITH KEYNOTE: [A JUDICIAL DIGESTIVO: SOME TIPS ON AVOIDING HAVING STOCKHOLDERS, THE BUSINESS PRESS, AND JUDGES LIKE ME WRITE STOMACH-CHURNING, HEAD-SEARING THINGS ABOUT YOU!](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/uat_026333.pdf)
Introduction: Peter Blair Henry, Dean, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Keynote: Honorable Leo E. Strine, Jr., Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

2:30 – 3:30 p.m. AUDIT COMMITTEE IN TIMES OF CRISIS
Chair: Ruby Sharma, Partner, Ernst & Young

3:30 – 5:00 p.m. COMPENSATION ISSUES FOR BOARDS
Chair: Jeremy Goldstein, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Panelists: Linda Fayne Levinson, Director, Jacobs Engineering Group, DemandTec, Inc., Ingram Micro, Inc., NCR Corp., The Western Union Company
Raj L. Gupta, Senior Advisor, New Mountain Capital; Director, Hewlett-Packard Co., Tyco, The Vanguard Group

###  Past Directors' Institutes

- [2011 NYU Directors' Institute](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/pollack-center-law-business/events/directors-institute/2011)
May, 6th 2011
- [2010 NYU Directors' Institute](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/pollack-center-law-business/events/directors-institute/2010)
May, 7th 2010
- [2009 NYU Directors' Institute](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/pollack-center-law-business/events/directors-institute/2009)
May, 1st 2009
- [2008 NYU Directors' Institute](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/pollack-center-law-business/events/directors-institute/2008)
May, 9th 2008
- [2007 NYU Directors' Institute](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/pollack-center-law-business/events/directors-institute/2007)
May, 4th 2007
- [2006 NYU Directors' Institute](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/pollack-center-law-business/events/directors-institute/2006)
May, 18th 2006
- [2005 NYU Directors' Institute](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/pollack-center-law-business/events/directors-institute/2005)
June, 2nd 2005
- [2004 NYU Directors' Institute](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/pollack-center-law-business/events/directors-institute/2004)
May, 21st 2004
- [2003 NYU Directors' Institute](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/pollack-center-law-business/events/directors-institute/2003)
May, 29th 2003