TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012

5:30-6:30 p.m. Hosted cocktail hour, socializing and wine-tasting
6:30-8:30 p.m. Dinner and speaker

Location:
Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club
3000 Alexis Drive
Palo Alto, CA

DO'S AND DON'TS FOR CORPORATE DIRECTORS

A Former Chancellor's Tips on How To Avoid the Courtroom

A provocative perspective from the recently retired chief judge of the Delaware Court of Chancery, Bill Chandler

This Delaware court makes most of the laws in our country regarding fiduciary duty and corporate governance. Looking at a few well-known corporate cases, Bill will describe how boards have evolved over the last decade and forces that caused evolution in composition and conduct.

Chancellor William B. Chandler III is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he advises both public and private clients in connection with corporate governance matters, special committee assignments, internal investigations and merger and acquisition transactions.

Chancellor Chandler joined the firm from the Delaware Court of Chancery, the nation's leading court for corporate law cases, particularly those relating to change of control and other corporate law issues. He was appointed chancellor in 1997, after serving as vice chancellor since 1989. Widely regarded as one of the country's most influential judges on issues of corporate law and governance, he issued more than a thousand opinions and presided over some of the most contentious and high-profile corporate law disputes in the country, including those involving The Walt Disney Company, Yahoo, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, eBay, Citigroup, Dow Chemical and, most recently, the Air Products/Airgas dispute.

The Chancellor holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School, a J.D. from University of South Carolina and a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Delaware.