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“Lucky Strikes”: Public
Policy Issues in Backdating and Springloading
Monday, October 30, 2006
9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
The Columbus=
Club, Union Station, Washington,
DC
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9:30 a.m.=
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sp; Registration
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10:00 a.m=
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sp; Introduction
and Welcome
The Honorable Christopher Co=
x, Chairman, US Securiti=
es and
Exchange Commission
Joseph A. Grundfest, =
William A.
Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School; Faculty
Director, The Rock Center for Corporate Governance
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10:15 a.m. &n=
bsp; Empirical
Evidence Regarding Backdating, Springloading and other Potentially
Problematic Trading Practices
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Moderator:
David F. Larcker<=
/b>, James Irvin Miller Professor=
of
Accounting, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Faculty Directo=
r,
The Rock Center for Corporate Governance
Panel:
Alan
D. Jagolinzer, Asst. Professor of Accounting, Stanford =
Graduate
School of
Business
Ron Kasznik, Associa=
te
Professor of Accounting, Stanford
Graduate School of Business<=
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11:30 a.m=
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sp; The
Springloading Debate
Presenters:
Joseph A. Grundfest, Faculty
Director, The R=
ock
Center for
Corporate Governance
Donald C. Langevoort<=
/i>, Thomas
Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law; Co-Director, Joint Degree in L=
aw
and Business Administration, Georgetown Law
School
12:30 p.m. &n=
bsp; LUNCH
Remarks by Linda Chatman Tho=
msen,
Director of the Division of Enforcement, SEC
1:30 p.m. &n=
bsp; Accounting
and Other Related Issues
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Moderator:
Katherine Schipper, Thomas =
F.
Keller Professor of Accounting, Fuqua =
School
of Business, Duke University
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bsp; Panel:
Peter Klinger, BDO Seidman=
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Cherian Huskins, Woodruff-Sawyer & Co.
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; Daniel L. Goelzer, Board Member, Public Comp=
any
Accounting
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Oversight Board and former General Counsel, SEC (1983-1=
990)
2:45 p.m.=
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sp; Litigation
and Enforcement Policy Issues
Moderator:
Joseph A. Grundfest,<=
/i> Faculty
Director, The R=
ock
Center for
Corporate Governance
Panel:
Simon M. Lorne, Vice Chairman, Millennium
Partners, LP; former General Counsel, SEC (1993-1996)<=
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Stephen M. Cutler=
, Co-Chai=
r,
Securities Department, Wilmer Hale; former Director of the Divisi=
on
of Enforcement, SEC (2001 – 2005)
Stanley Sporkin, Ombudsman, British Petroleum
– U.S.; former District Judge for District of Columbia; for=
mer
Director, Division of Enforcement, SEC; former General Counsel, C=
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