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SeminarsMany highly successful seminars and conferences have been organised in the area of corporate law by the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. These seminars have included: Directors' Duties: Navigating the Storm on Board Speakers: Bob Baxt A.O, Partner, Freehills (Melbourne seminar); Tim On 2 April 2008, the Employee Share Ownership Project (a joint initiative of Melbourne The London Takeover Panel - Approach to Regulation and Current Issues Replacing Misused Limited Liability with Enterprise Analysis in Corporate Groups For further information, click here For further information, click here This seminar was co-hosted with the Asian Law Centre Speakers: George Durbridge, Special Advisor, Freehills (Melbourne and Sydney); Norman For further information, click here ASIC v Citigroup - The Decision and its Implications ASIC v Citigroup - The Issues and Their Significance Speakers: Pamela Hanrahan , Deputy Director, Centre for Corporate Law and Securities For further information, click here Speaker: Associate Professor Christina Cregan, Associate Professor in Industrial Relations, Should Institutional Investors Use Their Considerable Market Power to Influence the Human Resource Practices of Companies? Speakers: Professor Ian Ramsay, Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law, Director of the Speaker: Professor Howell Jackson, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, United States No Seat at the Table-How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of America's Boardrooms Contesting Accountability and Legitimacy in Non-State Regulatory Regimes 2007 Corporate Governance Conference For further information, click here Law and the Market: The Impact of Enforcement Speaker: Professor John Coffee, Adolf A Berle Professor of Law, Columbia University For further information, click here Corporate Governance and the Management of Labour: Australian Perspectives This conference was co-hosted with the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, For further information click here
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Enlightened Shareholder Value and the New Responsibilities of Directors: What Does the Best Director do for the Creditors?
For further information, click here Directors' Duties and Corporate Social Responsibility - The New Environment Speakers: Bob Baxt AO, Partner, Freehills (Sydney and Melbourne); Bill Beerworth Managing Director, Beerworth & Partners (Sydney seminar); Leon Davis AO, Chairman, Westpac (Melbourne seminar); Meredith Hellicar, Chairman, James Hardie Industries (Sydney seminar); Harrison Young, Chairman, Morgan Stanley Australia (Melbourne seminar); Richard St John Convenor, Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee(Sydney and Melbourne) Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance Professor Geof Stapledon, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
Professor Ian Ramsay launches Leon Gettler's book "Organisations Behaving Badly: A Greek Tragedy of Corporate Pathology" For further information, click here The Takeovers Panel: Key Issues for Companies and Advisers (3 March 2005 Melbourne, 9 March 2005 Sydney)
Shareholder Meetings: Key Issues and Developments (9 November 2004 Melbourne, 18 November 2004 Sydney) Speakers: Andrew Lumsden, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth (Melbourne and Sydney), Stephen Mayne, Crikey.com.au (Melbourne and Sydney), John McCombe, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth (Melbourne and Sydney), Mervyn Peacock, Chief Investment Officer and Director, AMP Capital Investments (Sydney), Kathryn Watt, Corporate Counsel, Vanguard Investments Australia Ltd (Melbourne)
The Policies and Powers of the ACCC (1 October 2004)
The Ideas, Practices and Regulatory Context of Employee Share Ownership Schemes in Australia (27 August 2004)
Directors' Duties: Recent Developments and Their Implications for Directors and Advisors (4 August 2004 Melbourne, 11 August 2004 Sydney)
Speaker: Karen Wheelwright, School of Law, Deakin University
Speakers: Gregg Drumm, Practice Leader-Products, Consumer, Business and Corporate Legal Group, ANZ Bank; Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan, Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, The University of Melbourne; Pamela McAlister, Deputy Executive Director - Financial Services Regulation, Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Speaker: Professor Harry Glasbeek, Osgood Hall Law School, York University, Toronto This seminar was co-hosted with the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law
Speaker: Sau Ngan Wong, Head - Policy and Regulatory Review, Securities Commission of Malaysia
Speaker Sue Woodward, University of Melbourne Corporate Governance Conference (13 February 2004) Speakers included: Professor Randall S Thomas, Vanderbilt University Law School; Professor Steven Schwarcz, Duke University; John O’Grady, Partner, Ernst & Young, Melbourne; Dean Paatsch, Director of Governance Services, SIRIS.
Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Boros, Monash University
Speakers: Stephen Creese, General Counsel, Rio Tinto, Quentin Digby, Partner, Freehills, Associate Professor Geof Stapledon, The University of Melbourne
Speaker: Dr Alan Dignam, University of London
Speakers: Richard Cockburn, Director, Corporate Finance, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, James Gerraty, Manager, Manager of Companies, Australian Stock Exchange, Penny Grau, Partner, Clayton Utz, Rod Halstead, Partner, Clayton Utz; Charles Macek, Chairman, IOOF and Non-executive Director, Telstra and Wesfarmers, Charles Rosedale, Partner, Clayton Utz, Gai McGrath, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Perpetual Corporate Complicity in International Law (9 April 2003) Speaker: Professor Celia Wells, University of Cardiff
Cross Border M & A Regulation Conference (23 October 2002) Speakers: Dennis Garris, Chief of the Office of Mergers and Acquisitions, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Noel Hinton, Deputy Director General, London Takeovers Panel, Thorsten Behnke, Assistant Director, German Financial Supervisory Authority, Zhang Xin, Deputy Director General, China Securities Regulatory Commission, Luis Figueroa, Chilean Securities and Insurance Regulator, Peter Cameron, Chairman, Investment Banking, Credit Suisse First Boston Australia Ltd This seminar was co-hosted with the Takeovers Panel and the Securities Institute of Australia Enron - The Implications for Corporate Governance (5 July 2002)
Auditors and Audit Committees: Key Issues and Developments (12 June 2002, Sydney and 28 May 2002, Melbourne) Speakers: Jillian Segal, Deputy Chair, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Alison Lansley, Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques (Melbourne), Jan McCahey, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Melbourne), Jan Muysken, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Sydney), Tony Bancroft, Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques (Sydney), Professor Ian Ramsay, Director, Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, The University of Melbourne Compulsory Acquisitions: Key Issues and Developments (6 June 2002, Melbourne and 4 June 2002, Sydney) Speakers: Allan Bulman, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, George Durbridge, Counsel, Takeovers Panel, Ron White, Partner, Coudert Brothers (Sydney), Rob Catto, Paul Meadows, Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson (Melbourne) When Corporate Law & Labour Law Collide: Lessons From The Ansett Administration (23 May 2002)
Eliminating Road Blocks to a Deal (18 April 2002, Sydney and 12 March 2002, Melbourne) Speakers: Mr George Durbridge, Counsel, Takeovers Panel, Mr Bruce Dyer, Special Counsel, Blake Dawson Waldron (Melbourne), Mr Michael Hoyle, Director, Macquarie Bank Limited, Mr Ross Jones, Mergers Commissioner, ACCC, Mr John Kench, Partner, Blake Dawson Waldron (Sydney), Mr Michael O'Bryan, Barrister, Victorian Bar, Mr Damian Reichel, Partner, Blake Dawson Waldron (Sydney) and Mr Bill Reid, Partner, Blake Dawson Waldron (Sydney) Enron - The Consequences for Corporate Governance and Corporate Law Reform (16 April 2002) Speaker: Professor Robert Haft, Georgetown University Law School, USA The New Takeoves Panel: Key Issues and Developments (16 October 2001, Sydney and 26 September 2001, Melbourne) Speakers: Mr Richard Cockburn, Director, Corporate Finance, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Mr Rodd Levy, Partner, Freehills (Melbourne), Mr Justin Mannolini, Partner, Freehills (Sydney), Mr Simon McKeon, President, the Takeovers Panel and Executive Director of Macquarie Bank Market Misconduct and The Financial Services Reform Bill (14 August 2001, Sydney and 25 July 2001, Melbourne) Speakers: Mr Joe Longo, Special Counsel, Freehills, Mr Robert Pride, General Counsel, Deutsche Bank and Mr John Kluver, Executive Director, Companies and Securities Advisory Committee Dual Listed Companies: Structure and Legal Issues (18 July 2001) Speakers: Mr Cameron Rider, Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson, Mr Jon Webster, Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson and Mr Shane Tregillis, Executive Director, Policy and Markets Regulation, Australian Securities and Investments Commission Lock-ups and Break Fees in The United States (6 July 2001)
Penalties and Regulatory Enforcement (14 June 2001)
The Purposes and Accountability of the Corporation in Contemporary Society: Corporate Governance at a Crossroads (4 June 2001)
The Very Uncertain Prospect of Global Convergence in Corporate Governance (3 May 2001)
Key Developments in Corporate Law & Equity - A Celebration of The Scholarship of Emeritus Professor Harold Ford (16 March 2001)
2001 Australian Securities and Investments Commission Summer School (18-23 February 2001) The 2001 Australian Securities and Investments Commission Summer School was held at The University of Melbourne. It was planned with the support of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. The theme of the Summer School was "Retail Financial Product Distribution: Challenges for Financial Service Firms, Consumers and Regulators in the 21st Century". The Summer School brought together senior regulators from many countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea. Keynote speakers at the Summer School included:
Enforcement of Foreign Country Judgments and the Proposed Hague Convention (5 February 2001)
A Transactional Framework To Interpret Contract Law (5 February 2001)
Directors' Duties: Recent Developments and their Implications for Directors and Advisers
The Future of Corporate Regulation: Hughes and Wakim and The Referral of Powers
E-Commerce and Financial Services (16 October 2000)
Economic Law Reform in Developing Countries: The Case of Indonesian Company Law (11 August 2000) Speaker: Professor Paul Brietzke, Professor of Law, Valparaiso University Law School, USA Presented by the Faculty of Law's Asian Law Centre, Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation and Institute for Comparative and International Law. Insider Trading: Recent Developments and Practical Issues for Market Participants (4 July 2000)
Hughes and Wakim: The Challenges for Corporate Regulation (22 June 2000) Speakers: The Hon Michael E J Black AC, Chief Justice, Federal Court of Australia; Mr Alan Cameron AM, Chairman, Australian Securities and Investments Commission; Professor Robert Baxt, Partner, Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks; Professor Cheryl Saunders AO, Director, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, The University of Melbourne The Corporate Law Economic Reform Program and Fundraising (30 March 2000) Speakers: Mr Jon Webster, Partner, Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks; Mr Michael Ziegelaar, Partner, Freehills; Ms Deborah Hambleton, National Listings Counsel, Australian Stock Exchange; Mr John Price, Principal Lawyer, Regulatory Policy Branch, Australian Securities and Investments Commission The Corporate Law and Economic Reform Program and Takeovers (9 March 2000) Speakers: Mr Rodd Levy, Partner, Freehills; Ms Alison Lansley, Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques; Mr Richard Cockburn, National Coordinator, Fundraising and Mergers and Acquisitions, Australian Securities and Investments Commission; Mr Simon McKeon, Executive Director, Macquarie Bank, President, Corporations and Securities Panel CLERP 6 and Securities (9 September 1999)
Lawyers' Professional Negligence: Recent Developments (23 August 1999)
Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance: Practical and Legal Issues (12 August 1999)
Share Capital Changes: Practical Implications (20 May 1999)
The Business Judgment Rule: Key Issues for Company Directors and Officers and Their Advisers (4 May 1999) Speaker: Professor Douglas Branson, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh; Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, The University of Melbourne This seminar was co-hosted with the Australian Institute of Company Directors. 1999 Australian Securities and Investments Commission Summer School (21-26 February 1999)
Interpreting Ministerial Directions to Statutory Corporations: Can Responsible Government Determine Corporate Governance? (21 October 1998) Speaker: Mr Christos Mantziaris, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Long-Term Contracts and Competition Laws (16 September 1998) Speakers - Mr David Goddard, Partner, Chapman Tripp, New Zealand; Professor Robert Baxt, Partner, Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks, Professorial Associate, The University of Melbourne; Associate Professor Joshua Gans, Melbourne Business School A United States Perspective on the Business Judgment Rule (13 July 1998) Speaker - Professor Deborah DeMott, School of Law, Duke University, USA This seminar was co-hosted with the Corporations Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia. Patrick Stevedores v Maritime Union of Australia: The Labour Law, Corporate Law and Commercial Litigation Issues (24 June 1998) Speakers - Dr Graham Smith, Partner, Clayton Utz; Mr Andrew Lumsden, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth; Professor Greg Reinhardt, Executive Director, Australian Institute of Judicial Administration. This seminar was co-hosted with the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law of The University of Melbourne. 1998 Australian Securities Commission Summer School (22-27 February 1998)
The 1998 Australian Securities Commission Summer School was held at The University of Melbourne. It was planned with the support of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. The theme of the Summer School was Investors, Global Financial Markets and Regulation: Current Trends and Issues. The Summer School brought together senior regulators from many countries including Australia, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, China, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, The Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea. The Regulation of Managed Investments: Current Issues and Perspectives (24 February 1998) Speakers - Mr Edward Waitzer, Senior Partner, Stikeman, Elliott, Toronto; former Chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission and former Vice-President of the Toronto Stock Exchange; Mr Barry Barbash, Director of the Division of Investment Management, United States Securities and Exchange Commission; Mr Shane Tregillis, National Director, Regulation, Australian Securities Commission; Ms Pamela Hanrahan, Senior Lecturer and Member of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, The University of Melbourne, Senior Associate, Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks. This seminar was co-hosted with the Australian Securities Commission. Developments in Closely Held Firms in the United States (13 February 1998) Speaker - Professor Robert Thompson, Washington University, USA. The Corporate Law Economic Reform Program (21 November 1997) Keynote speakers included Mr Jim Murphy, First Assistant Secretary, Business Law Division, The Treasury; Ms Claire Grose, Chairperson, Corporations Law Committee, Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia and Partner of Freehill Hollingdale & Page; Professor Robert Baxt, Chairman, Corporations Law Committee, Australian Institute of Company Directors and Partner of Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks; Professor Bernard Black, Columbia University Law School, USA; Mr David Goddard, Partner, Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young, New Zealand. This one day conference was co-hosted with the Centre for Law and Economics, The Australian National University. Do Independent Directors Matter? (20 November 1997) Speakers - Professor Bernard Black, Columbia University Law School, USA; Henry Bosch AO, Company Director; Jeffrey Lawrence, J P Morgan. This seminar was co-hosted with the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Contemporary Developments in Corporate Insolvency Law (A Centenary Celebration of Salomon v Salomon & Co Ltd) (18 September 1997) Speakers - The Rt Hon The Lord Cooke of Thorndon, Member of the House of Lords and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Professor Len Sealy, SJ Berwin Professor of Corporate Law, University of Cambridge; Professor Roy Goode, Norton Rose Professor of English Law, University of Oxford; Professor John Farrar, School of Law, Bond University and Professorial Associate, The University of Melbourne. This seminar was co-hosted with the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia and the 30th Australian Legal Convention. Directors' and Officers' Remuneration: Current Australian and United States Issues (30 July 1997) Speakers - Professor Charles Yablon, Cardozo Law School, New York, USA; Ms Elizabeth Alexander, Victorian State President of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Partner of Price Waterhouse; Mr Alan Cameron, Chairman of the Australian Securities Commission; Mr Paul Jennings, Member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Australian Investment Managers Association and Australian Shares Manager of National Mutual Funds Management; Mr John Egan, remuneration advisor to governments and the private sector. This seminar was co-hosted with The University of Melbourne Law School Foundation. Commercial Fiduciary Duties (8 July 1997) Speaker - Professor Gillian Hadfield, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; Commentator - Professor Tony Duggan, Faculty of Law, Monash University Electronic Commerce: Regulating in a World of Technological Change (11 February 1997) Speaker - Mr Steven Wallman, Commissioner, United States Securities and Exchange Commission; Commentators - Mr Shane Tregillis, Director, Regulatory Policy, Australian Securities Commission and Associate Professor Mark Sneddon, Faculty of Law, The University of Melbourne This seminar was co-hosted with the Australian Securities Commission. Corporate Law Teachers National Conference (9-11 February 1997)
Thirty papers were presented at the Conference. The keynote speakers included:
The Courts and Corporate Law (31 October 1996) Speakers - Justice Norman Veasey, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware; Justice David Malcolm, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Western Australia; Justice Edward Thomas, Court of Appeal of New Zealand; Alan Cameron, Chairman, Australian Securities Commission; Michael Rozenes QC, Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions; Catherine Walter, professional non-executive director; Karen Byrne, General Counsel, Australian Stock Exchange; Andrew Rogers QC, former Chief Judge, Commercial Division, Supreme Court of New South Wales; Alex Chernov QC, Victorian Bar; Professor Robert Baxt, Partner, Arthur Robinson and Hedderwicks; Professor Ian Ramsay, Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, The University of Melbourne. This conference was co-hosted with the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration and the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia. Corporate Strategies in the Single European Market (20 August 1996) Speaker - Professor Gilles Guyot of the University of Lyon Derivatives Regulation in the United States: Problems and Issues (8 July 1996) Speaker - Professor Roberta Romano of Yale University School of Law and School of Management; Commentator - Mr Shane Tregillis of the Australian Securities Commission Deregulation of Public Utilities (4 June 1996) Speaker - Professor Michael Trebilcock of the University of Toronto Law School with a panel consisting of Professor Phillip Williams of the Melbourne Business School, Mr Jim Holmes, Executive Manager, Business Development of Powernet, Mr David Goddard a partner with the New Zealand firm of Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young, and Mr John Perham of the Privatisation and Industries Reform Division of the Victorian State Treasury Department. This public lecture was co-hosted with the Australian Law and Economics Association The CRA-RTZ Merger (7 May 1996) Speakers - Mr Stephen Creese of CRA Limited and Mr Ian Renard and Mr Cameron Rider of Arthur Robinson and Hedderwicks Recent Developments in Legal Professional Privilege and the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination (21 March 1996) Speakers - Associate Professor Sue McNicol of Monash University, and Mr Peter Cranswick and Mr Peter Hiland of the Australian Securities Commission Corporate Governance: An International Perspective (12 February 1996) Speaker - Professor Richard Buxbaum, University of California at Berkeley Shareholders' Remedies: Australian and United States Developments (29 June 1995) Speakers - Professor Deborah DeMott, Duke University School of Law; Mr John Kluver, Companies and Securities Advisory Committee; Dr Elizabeth Boros Daniels v AWA Limited (28 June 1995) Speakers - Professor Robert Baxt, Arthur Robinson and Hedderwicks; The Hon Andrew Rogers QC, formerly Chief Judge, Commercial Division, Supreme Court of New South Wales; Mr W R M Irvine, Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Australia Bank Recent US Developments in Directors' Duty of Care in Corporate Transactions (10 May 1995) Speaker - Professor Douglas Branson, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Gambotto v WCP Limited (5 April 1995) Speakers - Quentin Digby, Freehill Hollingdale and Page; Geoff Hone, Blake Dawson Waldron; Ian Renard, Arthur Robinson and Hedderwicks; Ron White, Norton Smith and Co Corporate Groups: A United States Perspective on Current Legal Issues and Policies (12 December 1994) Speaker - Professor Phillip Blumberg, University of Connecticut School of Law The NRMA Case (7 December 1994) Speakers - George Durbridge, Australian Securities Commission; Frances Hanks, The University of Melbourne; Norman O'Bryan, Barrister; Jon Webster, Arthur Robinson and Hedderwicks Current Developments in Closely Held Firms in the United States: Limited Liability Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (17 November 1994) Speaker - Professor Larry Ribstein, George Mason University School of Law, Washington, DC
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