Exploring government's regulatory impact on financial institutions and other corporations

12:43 p.m., Sept. 14, 2015--Next month a distinguished group of thought leaders will visit the University of Delaware to discuss how government regulation impacts financial institutions and corporations in today’s world.

On Thursday, Oct. 8, the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at UD’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics will partner with The Clearing House Association to present “The Government as Regulator and/or Shareholder – The Impact on Director Duties: The Effect of Regulatory Mandates on Financial Institutions and Other Regulated Corporations in the Post Dodd-Frank Era.”

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Hosted in Gore Recital Hall in the Roselle Center for the Arts from 9:30 a.m.–noon, the event will feature experts in corporate governance, financial services and law.

Topics for discussion will include: 

• The interplay between the board’s duties under corporate law and emerging expectations of regulators and other stakeholders;
• Interaction between supervisors and boards; and
• The duties of directors of regulated institutions experiencing financial distress. 

Confirmed panelists and speakers include the following:

• Rolin P. Bissell, partner, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP
• Amy Borrus, interim executive director, Council of Institutional Investors
• Laban P. Jackson, Jr., chairman and CEO, Clear Creek Properties Inc. and director, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• Peter A. Langerman, chief executive officer, Franklin Mutual Advisers LLC
• Giovanni P. Prezioso, partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
• William R. Rhodes, president and CEO, William Rhodes Global Advisors LLC; senior adviser, Citi and professor-at-large, Brown University
• Edward B. Rock, Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Gregg L. Rozansky, managing director, The Clearing House
• Mary Schapiro, advisory board vice chair, Promontory Financial Group LLC and former chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Collins J. Seitz, Jr., justice, Supreme Court of Delaware
• Michael M. Wiseman, partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

The moderator will be Charles M. Elson, director of the Weinberg Center and Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair in Corporate Governance and professor of finance in the Lerner College.

To register for “The Government as Regulator,” click here.

Those with questions should contact Louisa Cresson of the Weinberg Center at lcresson@udel.edu or The Clearing House events staff at association.events@theclearinghouse.org.