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November 28, 2007:
Shareholder Suffrage: The Battle to Reform Director Elections at Corporate Boards (Roel Campos, SEC Commisioner)
4:00 pm, Horchow Hall, General Motors Room, 55 Hillhouse Avenue
Roel Campos is the partner in charge of Cooley Godward Kronish’s Washington, DC office. He is a member of the Litigation Department and joined the firm in 2007.
Prior to joining Cooley, Mr. Campos was a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was sworn in as a Commissioner of the SEC on August 22, 2002. On June 2, 2005, he was nominated by President George W. Bush for a second term, and was confirmed by the Senate on July 29, 2005.
Mr. Campos served for four years as the Commission’s liaison to the international regulatory community.
He became an influential voice for the convergence of standards and for rational regulation that promotes cross-border transactions. As the Vice Chair of the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissioners, he developed productive relationships with securities regulators in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. Mr. Campos also facilitated the development of international auditing and accounting standards through his work as Chair of the Monitoring Group, which oversees the setting of International Standards of Audit.
Mr. Campos has presided over hundreds of complex enforcement cases, applying the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. He also has extensively participated in the crafting and adoption of all of the SEC’s major regulatory initiatives, including: the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, mutual fund governance and compliance rules, and the new National Market System. In addition, Mr. Campos has spoken and published extensively in the areas of the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate governance, director liability, corporate penalties, international accounting and auditing standards, Securities Act reform, SRO and market reform, retirement investment protection, research analyst conflicts, and the internationalization of the securities markets.
This event is open to the public. To attend this event please register at millstein.som.yale.edu
