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travers_smith_logo.pngSeminar Programme for 2015

Michalmas Term

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper/Slides

Recording

13 October 2015

Professor Stavros Gadinis
University of California, Berkeley

"Three Pathways to Global Standards: Private, Regulator, and Ministry Networks"

 

Not recorded

27 October 2015 Colin Mackie
Aberdeen
"A Reassessment of the Foundations of the Corporate Structure"  

Not recorded

4 November 2015

Professor Blanaid Clarke
Trinity College, Dublin

"Datafin Revisited: Judicial Review During a Takeover Bid"

 

Not recorded

10 November 2015

Jeremy Walsh
Travers Smith

"UK Debt Restructuring Techniques"

 

   

1 December 2015

Anna Donovan
UCL

"Reconceptualising Corporate Compliance"

 

Not recorded

Easter Term

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper/Slides

Recording

28 April 2015

5.30pm

Professor Emilios Avgouleas
University of Edinburgh

"The Future of Fractional Reserve Banking in Light of Recent Reforms: Is Jimmy Stewart Dead?"

Reading:

Emilios Avgouleas, 'Large Systemic Banks and Fractional Reserve Banking, Intractable Dilemmas in Search of Effective Solutions' Chapter in Arner, Avgouleas, Buckley (eds), Reconceptualizing Global Finance and its Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2015) forthcoming;

'Critical Reflections on Bank Bail-ins', Emilios Avgouleas; Charles Goodhart (2015) 1 Journal of Financial Regulation 1;

'Excessive Leverage and Bankers' Pay: Governance and Financial Stability Costs of a Symbiotic Relationship', (2015) 21 Columbia Journal of European Law.

   

11 May 2015

1.15pm

Dr Wayne Courtney
University of Sydney

"The nature and enforcement of contractual indemnities"

 

Not recorded

 

Lent Term

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper/Slides

Recording

4 February 2015

1pm

Professor Irene Lynch-Fannon
University College Cork

"From Genius to Quackery: Corporate Law Theory and Boards"

 

   

18 February 2015

6.15pm

Dr Marc Moore
University College London

"Rationalising CEO-Worker Pay Equity"

 

 

 

23 February 2015

12noon

Professor Brian Havel
DePaul University, Chicago

Aviation Finance

 

 

 Not recorded

24 February 2015

1pm

Dr Roger Barker
Head of Corporate Governance, Institute of Directors

Short-termism in UK public companies – implications, evidence and policy options

 

 

 

 

26 February 2015

1pm

Simon Whitney
King & Wood Mallesons

"Demystifying Private Equity Funds: How They are Structured and Why"

 

 

Not recorded

9 March 2015

12noon

Danielle Quaggiotto
Principal Counsel at EBRD

"Financing Renewable Energy Projects"

 

 

Not recorded