CONFERENCE

FGV DIREITO RIO
Duisenberg School of Finance
Vanderbilt Law School
CONFERENCE
MAR 06, 2015
REALIZAÇÃO:
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
FGV DIREITO RIO
Duisenberg School of Finance
Vanderbilt Law School
CONFERENCE
MAR 06, 2015
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
PROGRAM
9:00-11:45 - Corporate Governance Panel
Speakers:
Florencio Lopez de Silanes and Rafael Matta (EDHEC Business School and University of
Amsterdam- Faculty of Business and Economics): ‘Improved Creditor Protection and Verifiability
in the US’
Joseph McCahery (Tilburg University and DSF), 'Behind the Scenes: The Corporate Governance
Preferences of Institutional Investors'
Morgan Ricks (Vanderbilt Law School), ‘The Money Problem: Financial Institutions and Design of
Monetary Instruments’
Patrick Gottfried Behr (Associate Professor of Finance at the Brazilian School of Public and
Business Administration - FGV/EBAPE), ‘Did Government Regulation Improve Credit Rating
Quality?’
Antonio D. C. Castro (Executive Chairman of Abrasca – Brazilian Association of Publicly-Held
Corporations)
12:00-12:30 - Welcome
Speaker:
Joaquim Falcão (Dean of FGV DIREITO RIO)
12:30-14:15 - Luncheon Speaker
Speaker:
Leonardo P. Gomes Pereira (Executive Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission of
Brazil) — 13:30 to 14:15 speech
14:15-16:15 - Shareholder Litigation Panel
Speakers:
Amanda Rose (Vanderbilt Law School), ‘Recent Trends in U.S. Securities Litigation and
Enforcement: Lessons for Abroad’
Merritt Fox (Columbia University Law School), ‘Halliburton II: It All Depends on What Defendants
Need to Show to Establish No Impact on Price’
Randall Thomas (Vanderbilt Law School) ‘Zealous Advocates or Self-interested Actors:
Assessing the Value of Plaintiffs’ Law Firms in U.S. Merger Litigation’
Francisco Müssnich (Lawyer; LL.M at Harvard Law School, and professor at FGV DIREITO
RIO and PUC)
16:30-18:30 - Recent Developments in Securities Markets Panel
Speakers:
Erik P.M. Vermeulen (Tilburg & Philips): ‘The Truth about Secondary and IPO Markets for High
Tech Companies’
Antonio J. Maristrello Porto and Pedro Butelli (FGV DIREITO RIO/CPDE), ‘The IPO Lock-Up
Period and its Effect on Stock Prices’
Nelson Eizirik (Lawyer; partner at Carvalhosa e Eizirik Advogados)
Roberto Belchior (General Counsel at BM&FBovespa S.A. - Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias
e Futuros)