The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance

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The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance is an academic research center whose mission is to raise public and academic awareness of current corporate and securities law issues, to produce and disseminate research on a broad range of topics in these fields, and to educate and train students and professionals. [1] The Heyman Center is part of at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law located at 55 Fifth Avenue in the Union Square area of New York City. [2]

The Heyman Center sponsors and organizes a variety of symposia and lectures by business and political leaders and legal scholars. The Center hosts annual programs focusing on current issues in corporate restructurings. [3] At the Third Annual Perspectives in Corporate Restructurings Conference: Corporate Restructurings in a Difficult Market on April 9, 2008, billionaire investor Wilbur L. Ross delivered a keynote address, providing his views on the current credit crisis and the outlook for investors. [4]

The Heyman Center and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Compliance and Legal Division (SIFMA-CL) have a cooperative relationship to hold a series of programs each year at The Heyman Center on issues related to the securities industry. This relationship has produced the public programs such as Attorneys as Gatekeepers, Future of the Securities Markets, Fraud and Federalism, Corporate Trouble, Regulating Financial Markets by Rules or Principles, and Debating the Merits of Prudential Supervision. [3]

Other notable figures that have spoken at The Heyman Center public programs includes Mark A. Belnick, former Tyco International general counsel, Charlie Rose, Emmy award-winning journalist who interviewed hedge fund investor T. Boone Pickens on shareholder activism, and legendary investor Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. [3]

Professor Eric J. Pan is the director of The Heyman Center. He is an associate professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, where he is the director of The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance and an associate fellow in the international economics program of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He specializes in corporate, securities and international law with a particular focus on international financial regulation and the operation of financial markets. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Mission Statement". heyman-center.org. Archived from the original on 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
  2. ↑ "Heyman Center Home Page". Archived from the original on 2008-10-16. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
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  4. ↑ "DealBook". The New York Times.
  5. ↑ "Prof. Eric Pan, Assistant Professor of Law and Director, The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance". www.cardozo.yu.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-05-01.
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