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James serves as the Senior Special Counsel for the Cybersecurity Program Office at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. Over the past 15 years, he has held senior appointments in the legal offices of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Click to register.

Jade Newburn serves as the Head of Transactions and Managing Director for U.S. Real Estate at The Carlyle Group. Since joining Carlyle in 2020, Jade has led the strategy and implementation of transactions, overseen disputes and litigation, managed risk, and spearheaded various high-priority initiatives. Before Carlyle, Jade was a Partner at Mayer Brown LLP, where, as partner, he led the U.S. Real Estate practice in the Chicago office from 2004 to 2020. In this role, he represented real estate private equity funds, REITs, pension funds, developers, and investors in national transactions.Click to register.

Natalie Vernon is a corporate associate at Cooley LLP in Denver, Colorado, where she focuses on mergers and acquisitions and represents strategic parties in public and private transactions across a range of industries. Natalie was previously a corporate associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York and has also worked in Cooley’s San Francisco office. She also clerked for the Honorable Michael J. Melloy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Click to register.

Andrew Leblanc serves as managing partner of the Washington, DC office of Milbank LLP. He is a member of the firm’s Financial Restructuring and Litigation & Arbitration Groups. Andrew’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, financial restructuring and international arbitration, with a particular focus on contested issues arising in bankruptcy cases. He regularly represents official committees, secured and unsecured creditors, debtors, and bidders in bankruptcy cases, as well as financial institutions as defendants in adversary proceedings brought as part of bankruptcy cases. Click to register.

Description On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST via Zoom, Professor Mohsen Kadivar (Duke University) will present “The Genealogy of the Death Penalty for Apostasy and Blasphemy in Islam.” This talk examines a few ḥadith that are attributed to the Prophet that support a penalty for apostasy, especially execution, that have been the foundation […]

Vinod Lala is an accomplished finance executive with 25+ years’ experience in strategic investments, M&A, corporate finance, board advisory and public shareholder engagement coupled with domain expertise in cloud communications, digital infrastructure and mobile networks. For the last ten years, Vinod has been the Chief Strategy Officer at Vonage where he spearheaded strategy and M&A execution. Click to register.

Mark Wehrly joined Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. in 1996, and is a Partner, Chief Operating Officer, and Special Counsel of the firm. Prior to joining Farallon, Mark worked as a corporate law associate in the San Francisco office of Shearman & Sterling’s corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions practice groups. Mark graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School with a J.D. and with Distinction from Stanford University with a B.A. in Economics and in English Literature. Click to register.