Open
Meeting (open
to ECGI members and invited guests)
17.45 - 17.55
Introduction
17.55-18.40
Keynote
speech:The
New Vote Buying Professor
Bernard Black
Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence and
Professor of Law,
University of Texas at Austin School of Law and ECGI Fellow Q&A
Oxford
Union-style Debate (open
to ECGI members and invited guests)
18.40-19.55
Motion:“This
House believes that long-term shareholders should have
double voting rights ”
In the chair: Professor Colin Mayer, Peter
Moores Dean and Professor of Management Studies,
Said Business School, University of Oxford and
ECGI Fellow
Proposing the motion: Bertrand Collomb, Chairman of Lafarge Seconded by: Christophe Clerc,
Counsel, Shearman & Sterling LLP
Opposing the
motion: Guy Jubb, Head of Corporate
Governance, Standard
Life Investments Seconded by: Ernst Maug, Professor for Corporate Finance, Mannheim Business School, University of Mannheim
Dinner
and Presentation of the 2007 ECGI Working Paper Series
Prizes (open to ECGI
members and invited guests)
20.00-22.30
Drinks
and Dinner
Over dinner, presentations
were made to the winners of the 2007 Egon
Zehnder International prize, the Standard
Life Investments Finance prize and the De
Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law prize