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Whether you serve on a private or a public board, the litigation landscape is changing. SVDX is pleased to host a session with experts on Delaware law who will bring board members up to speed on Delaware fiduciary duties, to include case studies and best practices in recent months.
SPEAKERS
Stephen Blake
Steve Blake is a Litigation Partner in the Simpson Thacher Palo Alto office. Steve has extensive experience resolving high-stakes shareholder litigation and securities regulatory matters. Steve regularly advises corporations, financial institutions, funds and their advisors in connection with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, legal compliance and commercial disputes. Steve also regularly represents entities and individuals before the SEC, FINRA and stock exchanges.
Linda Grais
Linda S. Grais is an Independent Board Director for biopharma companies of PRA Health Sciences, Corvus Pharma, Zosano Pharma, and Arca Biopharma. She was the President and CEO of Ocera Therapeutics and she received her B.A. from Yale University, magna cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa, an M.D. from Yale Medical School and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Robert May
Robert May is a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Litigation Department. His practice focuses on M&A litigation, corporate governance disputes, and securities litigation. Robert has more than a decade of experience representing clients in a broad range of industries including technology, financial services, and pharmaceuticals.
Elena Norman
Elena Norman is a partner at Young Conaway. The desire and ability to persuade drives Elena’s approach to advocacy — her oral presentations, her writing, her editing, her work as an expert witness on Delaware law, her work with testifying experts, and especially her frequent appearances before the Delaware Court of Chancery. Clients and co-counsel understand that Elena’s persuasiveness stems from her creativity, her deep understanding of Delaware corporate law, her deep immersion into the facts of a case, and from her sharp command of the law and facts in briefs and in the courtroom. Having lived and worked in other cultures — as a commercial lawyer in Japan, a human rights lawyer in Russia, and a student in England — Elena brings a wide range of perspectives to her practice. Clients and co-counsel credit her unusually broad background with honing her abilities as a creative and strategic thinker, a clear communicator, a team leader, and an astute reader of the courts and adversaries she seeks to persuade.
F. Daniel Siciliano, moderator
Dan Siciliano is a successful technology CEO-founder and entrepreneur, as well as Vice Chair of the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and a recognized expert in corporate strategy and governance, capital financial markets, executive compensation, and technological disruption (including fintech, AI and cybersecurity). He is currently Chairman of SVDX, board member of the Latino Corporate Directors Education Foundation, chair-elect of the Council of Federal Home Loan Banks, and a fellow at Stanford University.