Tuesday, October 24, 2017
8:00AM – 9:00AM
REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST
9:00AM – 9:15AM
WELCOME & OPENING THOUGHTS
Robert Daines
Pritzker Professor of Law and Business, Associate Dean for Global and Graduate Programs, Stanford Law School
Liu Qiao
Dean and Professor of Finance, Peking University Guanghua School of Management
Peter Williamson
Professor of International Management, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
9:15AM – 9:35AM
XBMA REPORT AND OVERVIEW OF THE TECH M&A MARKETS
Ronald C. Chen
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Raaj Narayan
Co-editor, XBMA Quarterly Review
9:35AM – 10:15AM
STRATEGY: How to Set the Course in Volatile, Multi-National Markets
Hamid Moghadam
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Prologis
Peter Williamson
Professor of International Management, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (moderator)
10:15AM – 10:30AM
BREAK
10:30AM – 12:15PM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
GENERAL COUNSEL ROUNDTABLE: Cutting Edge Legal Issues in Tech and XB M&A
Nigel Boardman
Partner, Slaughter and May
Jim Cowie
General Counsel, Cadence Design Systems
Adam O. Emmerich & Edward J. Lee
Partners, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (moderators)
Jeffrey Freedman
General Counsel, CAA
Javier Illescas Fernandez Bermejo
Head of Corporate Legal, Banco Santander, S.A
Pek Siok Lan
Senior Managing Director, General Counsel, Temasek International Pte. Ltd.
John Schultz
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Marnie Seif
Chief Legal Officer, Analog Devices
Lenny Stein
General Counsel, Splunk
12:20PM – 1:40PM
LUNCH – LUNCH CONVERSATION:
The Silicon Valley/China Axis
moderated by Rocky Lee, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons
Jerry Yang
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AME Cloud Ventures,
Founder, Yahoo!
Zhang Ya-Qin
President, Baidu, Inc.
1:45PM – 2:05PM
CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CHINA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CROSS-BORDER BUSINESS
Liu Qiao
Dean and Professor of Finance, Peking University Guanghua School of Management
Cai Hongbin
Dean, Chair of Economics, Hong Kong University
2:05PM – 2:25PM
AND THE RESEARCH SHOWS…Six Surprising Patterns and Trends in Global M&A Uncovered by the Latest Data
Tim Payne
Senior Partner, Brunswick Group L.L.P.
2:25PM – 3:25PM
CROSS-BORDER EXPANSION: Why, How, When?
Howard Hochhauser
Interim Chief Executive Officer, ancestry.com
Emily Keeton
Global Head of M&A, WeWork
Andrew J. Nussbaum
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (moderator)
Scott Offer
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Flex
Wang Kejin
Vice President, China Oceanwide Holdings Group
Former Deputy Director-General, China Banking Regulatory Commission
Franny Yao
Senior Partner, Ernst & Young (China)
3:25PM – 3:40PM
BREAK
3:40PM – 4:40PM
TECH DEALS: Opportunities, Complications and Solutions
Andrew R. Brownstein & Benjamin M. Roth
Partners, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (moderators)
Courtney McBean
Managing Director, Evercore
Jung Min
Partner, Goldman Sachs
Rafael Torres
Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategy, Varian Medical Systems
Rishi Varma
Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Securities and M&A, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Neal Wolin
Senior Counselor, Brunswick Group L.L.P.
Fei Yin
Managing Director, Guotai Junan Securities
4:40PM – 5:30PM
ADAPTING BUSINESS MODELS, STRATEGIES AND DEALS TO GET AHEAD OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
David Enrich
Finance Editor, New York Times (moderator)
Mark Gordon
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Albert Liu
General Counsel, Head of Corporate Development, VeriFone Systems
Angel Mendez
Chief Operating Officer, HERE Technologies
Sunny Sun
Chief Growth Officer, Yum China
Jonathan Turner
Co-Founder, Senior Advisor, Qatalyst Partners
6:00PM
COCKTAILS & DINNER
The Village Pub
2967 Woodside Road
Woodside, California
DINNER PROGRAM: Corporate Governance Trends
Martin Lipton
Founding Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
