Wulf A. Kaal

· Dodd-Frank Act, Form ADV, Form PF, Hedge Funds, International Finance, Investment Advisers, Investment Companies, Investment Funds, Securities Regulation

The Effect of the Dodd-Frank Act on Hedge Fund Performance - Presentation at George Washington University Law School

THE CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS AND FINANCE AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL FOURTH ANNUAL JUNIOR FACULTY BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL LAW WORKSHOP AND JUNIOR FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP PRIZES

Sponsored by Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

The George Washington University Law School 2000 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20052 February 7-8, 2014

Friday February 7 Welcome, FACULTY CONFERENCE CENTER, B 505
Gregory Maggs, Interim Dean, GW Law School Arthur Wilmarth, Professor of Law, GW Law School; Executive Director, C-LEAF Lisa Fairfax, Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research Professor of Law, GW Law School Session 1: Systemic Risk Paradox Felix Chang, University of Cincinnati College of Law Commentators: Heidi Schooner, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America John Buchman, Executive Counsel- Regulatory Affairs, General Electric Capital Corporation Session 2: Bankruptcy Stigma: A Socio-Legal Study Michael Sousa, University of Denver College of Law Commentators: Robert Lawless, Associate Dean for Research, Co-Director, Illinois Program on Law, Behavior and Social Science, University of Illinois College of Law Deborah Thorne, Wagner Teaching Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio University Session 3: The SEC and the Courts’ Cooperative Policing of Related Party Transactions Geeyoung Min, University of Virginia School of Law Commentators: Joan Heminway, W.P. Toms Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law David Lynn, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Session 4: The (Un)enforcement of Corporate Officer Duties Megan Shaner, University of Oklahoma College of Law Commentators: Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Ruby R. Vale Professor of Corporate and Business Law, Director, Widener Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business Law, Widener University School of Law Lyman Johnson, Robert O. Bentley Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law Session 5: Testing the Bounds of Fiduciary Obligations: An Empirical Study of U.S. Mutual Fund Proxy Voting Behavior Olivia Dixon, The University of Sydney Commentators: JIll Fisch, Perry Golkin Professor of Law, Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania Law School Lisa Fairfax, GW Law School Session 6: Functional Financial Regulation Sung Eun (Summer) Kim, University of Illinois College of Law Commentators: Richard Carnell, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law Art Wilmarth, GW Law School Session 7: The Outside Investor: Citizen Shareholders and Corporate Law Alienation Anne Tucker, Georgia State University College of Law Commentators: Jeff Mahoney, General Counsel, Council of Institutional Investors Jennifer Taub, Associate Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
Saturday February 8
Session 8: Hedge Fund Performance After the Dodd-Frank Act-A Regression Discontinuity Analysis Wulf Kaal, University of St. Thomas School of Law Commentators: William Bratton, Deputy Dean and Nicholas F, Gallicchio Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute of Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania Law School Sabastian V. Niles, Counsel, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, LLP Session 9: Professional Responsibility of Investment Bankers Andrew Tuch, Washington University School of Law Commentators: William Wilhelm, Jr., William G. Shenkir Eminent Scholar Finance, University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce Andre Owens, Partner, WilmerHale LLP Morning Break Session 10: Insider Trading in Derivative Markets (And What it Means for Everyone Else) Commentators: James Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law School Arthur Wilmarth, GW Law School Session 11: Do the Securities Laws Matter? The Matter of Convergence of the Loan and Bond Markets
Elisabeth de Fontenay, Duke University School of Law Commentators: Donald Langevoort, Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Theresa Gabaldon, GW Law School Session 12: The Special Problem of Banks and Crime Gregory Gilchrist, University of Toledo College of Law Commentators: Samuel Buell, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law Cornelius Hurley, Director, Center for Finance, Law & Policy, Professor of the Practice of Banking Law, Boston University School of Law