The Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital
The DFG LawFin Center at Goethe University in Frankfurt, the LSE Law School, the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford, and the Institute for Law & Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, together with ECGI, are pleased to announce the convening of “The Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital” on June 11-12, 2025, at LSE Law School in London.
This years' focus is on the fields of law and finance related to private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC), broadly defined.
- This is an invitation-only event.
Programme
Wednesday, 11 June 2025 | 08:00 BST
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Breakfast & Welcome
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Session 1
Moderator
Welcome from the Dean of LSE Law School
Speaker(s)
Buyout Value Creation in the Age of Easy Money
Speaker(s)
Discussant
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Break
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Session 2
Moderator
ESG Incidents and Fundraising in Private Equity
Speaker(s)
Discussant
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Lunch
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Session 3
Moderator
Stress Testing Private Credit
Speaker(s)
Discussant
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Break
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Session 4
Moderator
An Inducement Theory of Venture Capital
Speaker(s)
Discussant
No Exit
Speaker(s)
Discussant
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Speaker Dinner at Gray’s Inn, sponsored by Travers Smith LLP
Speaker(s)
Thursday, 12 June 2025 | 08:00 BST
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Breakfast
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UK Policy Breakfast: Carried Interest in Private Equity (Chatham House Rules)
Moderator
Panelist(s)
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Break and restart of the main Conference
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Session 5
Moderator
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Break
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Session 6
Moderator
Lend Me Your Counsel
Speaker(s)
Discussant
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Lunch
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Session 7
Moderator
Venture Capital as a Commons
Speaker(s)
Discussant
Government Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China
Speaker(s)
Isabelle Zhang
Discussant
Pay-to-Play
Speaker(s)
Discussant
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Break
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Session 8
Moderator
Closing Remarks and end of the Conference
Speakers
Luca Enriques
Professor of Business Law
Bocconi University, Department of Legal Studies
Fellow,
Research Member
Jill Fisch
Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Research Member
Cathy Hwang
Barron F. Black Research Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Research Member
Renee Jones
Professor of Law and Dr. Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar
Boston College
Research Member
Adrien-Paul Lambillon
Adrien-Paul Lambillon
Partners Group
Casimiro Nigro
Assistant Professor
CAS on the Foundations of Law & Finance, Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt
Academic Member
Tobias Tröger
Professor of Private Law, Commercial and Business Law
Leibniz Institute SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt, House of Finance
Research Member
Kristin van Zwieten
Clifford Chance Associate Professor of Law and Finance
Law Faculty, University of Oxford
Research Member
Presentations
Organised by
Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Suren Gomtsyan
Assistant Professor
LSE Law School
Assistant Professor
CAS on the Foundations of Law & Finance, Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt
Professor of Private Law, Commercial and Business Law
Leibniz Institute SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt, House of Finance
Contact
LawFin, Goethe University Frankfurt
