Recent Events

Building Your Future in the Private Capital Markets
 

Robert T. Slee
Managing Director, Robertson & Foley

Rob Slee is Managing Director of Robertson & Foley, a middle market investment banking firm. His firm provides business valuations, arranges substantial amounts of private capital, and advises on the transfer of private business transfers.

Rob has authored more than one hundred fifty articles on private finance topics in a variety of legal and business journals. Rob's book, Private Capital Markets, was published in mid-2004 by John Wiley & Sons and is now considered the seminal work in finance for private companies. Law schools and MBA programs around the world use this book in a new course of the same name. A second edition of this book with companion Workbook is currently underway. Rob’s second book, Midas Managers, was released in 2007 and describes how super-successful private business owners create substantial wealth in a global economy. This book is now the top selling book in the United States regarding private business strategy. Rob’s next book, Midas Marketing, is due out in early 2009.

Rob is an adjunct faculty member at Loyola University in Chicago, and co-teaches a course there on mergers and acquisitions. He speaks each year more than 60 times to trade associations, family and entrepreneurial programs, legal, CPA, and valuation conferences.

Rob is a board member of numerous professional associations and private companies. He has owned equity positions in a large number of mid-sized private businesses. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University, and received a Master's degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008.

Master Class with Professor Ronald Filler

'Lehman Brothers-- How Its Bankruptcy Impacted the International Future Derivatives Market'

Ronald H. Filler is an expert in the area of financial services law. He recently joined New York Law School as Professor of Law and Director of the School’s newest academic center, the Center on Financial Services Law. He will teach Derivatives Market Regulation, Special Topics in Corporate Law: Financial Services Seminar and Workshop, and Special Topics in Corporate Law: Regulation of Brokers/Dealers and Futures Commissions Merchants. Professor Filler was previously the Managing Director in the Capital Markets Prime Services Division at Lehman Brothers. He has spoken at hundreds of industry conferences and seminars during his more than 30 years in the futures and derivatives legal fields and has taught several different courses as an adjunct professor of law at four U.S. law schools, including New York Law School, the University of Illinois, Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Brooklyn Law School. He founded the Commodities Law Institute at Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1978, and this institute became the futures industry’s leading academic law program through 1995. Professor Filler has served on numerous industry boards and advisory committees during his career and, most recently, as a member of the CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee, the CME Clearing House Risk Operating Committee, The Clearing Corporation Board of Directors, the FIA Board of Directors, and the FIA Law and Compliance Division Executive Committee.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008.

CBLP Harlan Scholar Lunch with Center Director Faith Stevelman and Associate Director Howard Meyers

Professors Stevelman and Meyers spoke about the current economic crisis: how we got into this crisis, what are possible solutions, and what this means for our scholar's careers.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Master Class with Richard Nohe, Chief Counsel, USA & Canada, BT Global Services

'Managing Change in a Global Legal Department'

With over 20 years in the communications industry, Richard Nohe has comprehensive experience in corporate legal affairs, complex multi-jurisdictional commerical contract negotiations, government relations and regulatory/economic analysis, corporate strategy, and business development in global markets.

As Chief Counsel, Richard is responsible for legal matters in the U.S. and Canada, and plays an integral role in leading BT's Commercial Legal and Regulatory team in the region.

Richard has published several articles in trade publications, including an award-winning law journal article on international comparative law. He has an A.B. degree from Augusta College, a Master's degree in Telecommunications from New York University, and a J.D. from New York Law School.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
 

Center on Business Law & Policy Cocktail Reception at City Hall Restaurant

A social reception where returning students, faculty, and alumni talked about their summer experiences and discussed their plans for the upcoming year.

September 18, 2008

Center on Business Law & Policy End of the Year Fete at City Hall Restaurant

To honor the Center's graduating 3Ls, the wonderful 2Ls, the new pre-affiliates, and the always hard working faculty and staff, and our distingushed guests.

April 10, 2008

Faculty Presenation Day

A day long event where faculty and students present their scholarly work. This year the Center's Director, Professor Faith Stevelman, is speaking about her piece, "Fifteen Years of (Not) Teaching About Corporate Social Responsibility" as part of the morning's Legal Education Session. Associate Director Professor Howard Meyers is presenting his work, "The Inherent Unfairness of the Securities Arbitration Process,” during the Coporporate Law Session. Three Center Students, Erin Efland, George Esposito, and Erin Martin, are presenting their scholarly work during the lunch time session.

April 2, 2008

Lawerence Lederman Lecture Series with Philip Howard

Philip Howard, a partner at Covington & Burling LLP and founder of the organization "Common Good," spoke about "Lawsuits and Liberty." Philip K. Howard is the author of The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America (Random House 1995) and The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom (Ballantine 2002). He is a periodic contributor to the op-ed pages of The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and speaks before judicial, government, and professional organizations around the country. In the Oxford Companion To American Law, Howard contributed the section on American law since 1968. He is the Vice-Chairman of Covington & Burling and a prominent civic leader in New York.

Howard has advised leaders of both parties on reform initiatives. He was special advisor to the Securities and Exchange Commission on regulatory simplification, worked on environmental and management reforms with Vice President Al Gore's reinventing government program, advised the Republican leadership on regulatory reform, and worked on overhauling civil service and other bureaucratic institutions with several governors, including Zell Miller in Georgia, Bill Weld in Massachusetts and Jeb Bush and Lawton Chiles in Florida.

February 21, 2008

Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability, Ethics, and Human Rights Seminar Series

The seminar series, conducted by Professor Sheldon Leader, focuses on human rights responsibilities of private companies and public and private institutions providing finances for projects in development in various parts of the world. It examines the clash and complementarily aspects between the core objectives of these institutions and the demands of human rights protection and environmental sustainability.

Click here to download the Brochure for this event

Seminar One: Corporations & Human Rights: the Framework

The seminar discusses the principles governing human rights and corporate interest and where they diverge and where they potentially complement one another. The seminar also looks how to apply these principles, including the possibility of “internalizing” certain basic rights into the corporate constitution, so that protecting those rights are part of the officers fiduciary responsibilities.

January 28, 2008

Seminar Two: Corporate Investments Impact on the Developing World: the State

The seminar examines investment treaties and contracts and their impact on host government’s ability to manage domestic social policies.It will focus on Host Government Agreements, including the example of the BTC pipeline and an innovation in its legal regime known as the Human Rights Undertaking. Professor Sheldon Leader, Visiting Professor at New York Law School, will lead the discussion with attorneys Thomas Dimitroff and Andrea Shemberg. The attorneys were responsible for the first legally binding human rights undertaking to be signed by a multinational corporation as part of its investment in one of the world’s largest infrastructure projects – the BTC petroleum pipeline between the Caspian and Mediterranean.

February 11, 2008

Seminar Three: Corporate Structure, the Distribution of Power, and Problems of Accountability

The seminar examines the fit between theories linking the responsibilities of entities within a corporate group and the issue of responsibility for the actions of subsidiaries in foreign jurisdictions. It examines whether legal principles setting thresholds of control of one company by another are adequate for a policy of transnational responsibility.

February 25, 2008

Seminar Four: Corporate Investment Impact on the Developing World: Private & Public Lenders

The seminar examines public and private financing strategies and their social impact, including the requirements set by the Equator Principles and the International Finance Corporation. Also, it will look at securing project revenue for the public good in the developing world.

March 10, 2008

The Center on Business Law & Policy Luncheon for Harlan Scholars

January 23, 2008

Master Class with Stephen Fraidin

"Revlon Duties Updated: Go-Shop Clauses and Reverse Break-Up Fees"

November 29, 2007

Robert Slee Speech on "Lawyers as Gatekeepers to the Capital Markets"

This presentation enables lawyers to "gatekeep" the private capital markets for business owners. Attendees will be exposed to the structure of the private capital markets; the behavior of players in the markets; an approach for making value-added decisions in business; and strategies that create private business value.

Robert Slee is Managing Director of Robertson & Foley, a middle market investment banking firm. He is the author of Private Capital Markets, a seminal work in privaate finance, and Midas Managers. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami Univeristy, and received a Master's degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.

November 26, 2007

Otto Walter Distinguished Chair International Tax Law Lecture Series Presents Professor Karen B. Brown

"Can Cross-Border Distribution Serve the Caribbean Region?"

November 14, 2007