The Seventh Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and Governance
The forum will be hosted virtually by Ethan Klingsberg of Freshfields and Steven Davidoff Solomon of Berkeley on March 4th and 5th from 9 AM to 12 PM PST/ 12 PM to 3 PM EST.
- Dan Gallagher, Chief Legal Officer of Robinhood and former SEC Commissioner, in conversation with Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horwitz
- The Honorable J. Travis Laster, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery, with Mary Eaton of Freshfields, followed by a panel discussion of M&A lawyers from public companies on how case law and market practice from the pandemic era may have forever changed terms of merger agreements
- The Honorable Christine S. Wilson, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission with a special keynote address, followed by a panel discussion of antitrust in 2021 led by Mary Lehner of Freshfields
- CEO Peter Gassner of Veeva on being the first public company to convert to a public benefit corporation, followed by a panel discussion about the new wave of public benefit corporations among representatives of Allbirds, Veeva, Morgan Stanley and others, led by Pam Marcogliese of Freshfields
- CEO Winnifred Mitchell Baker of Mozilla Corporation on censorship, privacy, security and misinformation
- National security and M&A – special address and panel discussion
Takeaways from the 7th Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and Governance
Freshfields Speakers
New York
Ethan KlingsbergPartner, Co-Head of US Corporate and M&A
New York, Silicon Valley
Pamela MarcoglieseHead of US Transactions
New York
Mary EatonPartner, Co-head of Securities & Shareholder Litigation
Washington, DC
Mary LehnerPartner
Washington, DC
Aimen MirPartner | Foreign Investment and National Security | Head of CFIUS Practice