[Wilmclub] Professor Elson

[Wilmington Club]

The next Speaker Luncheon will be on Tuesday, November 3rd

 

Professor Charles Elson

12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m.

 

“THE DUPONT PROXY CONTEST AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE”

 

Prof. Elson will discuss the origins, outcome and future of the DuPont/Peltz
proxy contest of last spring.

He will discuss the implications of the fight for both DuPont and future
activist investor campaigns.

 

 

 

Charles M. Elson is the Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair in Corporate Governance
and the Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at
the University of Delaware. He is also "Of Counsel" to the law firm of
Holland & Knight. 

 

He formerly served as a Professor of Law at Stetson University College of
Law from 1990 until 2001. His fields of expertise include corporations,
securities regulation and corporate governance. He is a graduate of Harvard
College and the University of Virginia Law School, and has served as a law
clerk to Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson III and Elbert P. Tuttle of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits. 

 

Professor Elson served on the National Association of Corporate Directors'
Commissions on Director Compensation, Director Professionalism, CEO
Succession, Audit Committees, Strategic Planning, Director Evaluation, Risk
Governance, Effective Lead Director, and Board Diversity and was a member of
its Best Practices Council on Coping With Fraud and Other Illegal Activity.
He served as well on that organization’s Advisory Council. He is Vice
Chairman of the ABA Business Law Section’s Committee on Corporate Governance
and was a member of its Committee on Corporate Laws. 

 

Additionally, Professor Elson served as an adviser and consultant to Towers
Perrin and as a director of Circon Corporation, Sunbeam Corporation, Nuevo
Energy Company, the Investor Responsibility Research Center, Alderwoods
Group and AutoZone, Inc. 

 

He is presently a member of the Board of Directors of HealthSouth
Corporation. He has served as trustee of the Big Apple Circus, Talledega
College, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, and
the Delaware Museum of Natural History. He is presently a trustee of the
Hagley Museumand Library, the Delaware Art Museum and the Museum of American
Finance.                         

 

 

                

      

MENU

 

Navy Bean Soup

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JUMBO LUMP CRAB CAKES

SUCCOTASH    -    COLE SLAW

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Warm Banana Cake, Pineapple Compote

 


 

Cookies - Macaroons

 

Coffee – Tea – Iced Tea

 

 

 

Please contact the Club or respond to this email if you would like to
attend. 

 

Pamela J. Potere

Wilmington Club

P. O. Box 433

Wilmington, DE  19899

'Phone:  (302) 658-4287

ÊFax: (302) 658-7112

*Email:   <mailto:Wilmclub at comcast.net> Wilmclub at comcast.net

 

 



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