10th Annual Spring Forum on M&A and the Boardroom

Confirmed topics and speakers include:

• The latest on antitrust and M&A from:
  • Olivier Guersent, Director-General, European Commission – DG Competition
  • Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition, FTC
  • Colin Raftery (formerly Senior Director of Mergers at the UK CMA), Freshfields
  • David Altschuler, Salesforce (formerly of DOJ-Antitrust Division); Kevin Yingling, Director of Competition at Google; and Freshfields’ Julie Elmer (formerly of DOJ-Antitrust Division) and Jenn Mellott
• Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz, Jr. in conversation with Mary Eaton, Freshfields’ Co-Head of Securities and Shareholder Litigation
• TPG Growth and Tech Adjacencies General Counsel Michael Guo, Blackstone General Counsel of Private Equity Natasha Gopaul, Sixth Street General Counsel Joshua Peck and Morgan Stanley Head of Global Technology M&A Mike Wyatt discussing the future of LBOs
• Cybersecurity insights featuring:
  • Spencer Fisher, Chief Counsel, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, US Department of Homeland Security; Jorge Tenreiro, Deputy Chief, Crypto Asset and Cyber Unit, SEC Enforcement Division; and Sean Newell, Chief, NatSec Cyber Section, DOJ; in conversation with Freshfields’ Beth George, formerly General Counsel of the US Department of Defense
• Pulitzer Prize finalist and WSJ reporter, Dana Mattioli, discussing her new book, The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power, with NY Times’ Diana Henriques, another Pulitzer Prize finalist

For those attending the conference in-person at the Julia Morgan Ballroom, the legendary post-conference reception returns to celebrate a decade of the spring M&A and the Boardroom Forum!