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Roger B. Vincent,
Chairman, NACD-NY
President of Springwell Corp.
Director, ING Funds,
UGI
Corporation
James L. Gunderson,
President, NACD-NY
CEO of Governance and Transactions
Director,
Aibel Group Limited
Robert L. Messineo
Secretary, NACD-NY
Partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges
LLP
Mark Serock,
Treasurer, NACD-NY
Partner of KPMG, LLP
Kenneth
J. Abt
Chairman, President, CEO, First Federal Savings of Middletown
Paul M. Albert, Jr.
Director, DigitalGlobe, Inc.
John F. Budd, Jr.
Chairman of The Omega Group
Member, Advisory Board
of NACD
Candace Cox
Managing Director, Emerald Capital Advisors, LLC
Ray Groves
Retired Chair & CEO,
Ernst & Young
Director, EDS, Boston Scientific
Steven E. Hall
Managing Director of
Steven Hall & Partners
Brian
Inselberg
President, Corporate Accounts and Private Non Profit Divisions, AIG
Executive Liability
Roger M. Kenny
Chairman of Boardroom Consultants
Kenneth
Kopelman
Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, LLP
Director, Liz Claiborne
Thomas J.
Opladen
Managing Director, Kestrel Consulting, LLC
J. Thomas Presby
Director, American Eagle Outfitters,
AMVESCAP Plc, Tiffany &
Co.
Steven H. Rice
Director, Allegheny
Energy
Hye-Won Choi
Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate
Governance,
TIAA-CREF
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Activist Hedge Funds:
What Public Company Directors Need to Know
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Hedge funds now account for as much as 30% of
total U.S. equity trading, and activism is a
rapidly growing hedge fund strategy. The
success of activist campaigns to add dissident
directors to boards and force significant
changes at companies has been remarkable,
reflecting their ability to strike suddenly, use
sophisticated "engineering" to obtain votes
beyond their share ownership, and bring a
tougher playbook to their campaigns than most
companies are prepared for. Sophisticated
legal, investment banking and proxy advice are
critical to a company's defense against an
activist hedge fund campaign, and this program
will bring together top advisors from the
leading national firms to explain how these
activists operate, how to anticipate and prepare
for them, and what to do if you suddenly find
your company is a target.
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Stephen R. Munger,
Chairman, Global Mergers & Acquisitions, Morgan Stanley
Michael J. Aiello, Partner, Weil Gotshal & Manges, LLP
Daniel H. Burch, CEO &
Chairman, Mackenzie Partners
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
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TIAA-CREF
730 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017
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Members: $40
Non-Members: $75
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