BCLB Speaker Series (test)

Stephen Bainbridge, Ken Taymor and John P. Hunt

“A Break Down of the Bailout”

Date: 02/18/2010
Description:
As the economy crumbled in 2008, the government intervened to “save” financial institutions that were “too big to fail.”  This unprecedented action generated a multitude of legal, economic, and political questions; perhaps none more important than “will it work?” With the decision to intervene behind us, it is now time to evaluate the impacts and implications for law, business, and the economy as a whole.

Sponsor(s): BCLB and the Federalist Society at Boalt Hall

Nathan Bush, O’Melveny & Myers

“Competing in China: Antitrust, Anticorruption, & Industrial Policy”

Date: 01/14/2010
Description:
China’s leadership enters 2010 with a mammoth stimulus program onstream and mounting (often conflicting pressures) to restructure China’s hybrid “command-market” system and its role in the global economy. At the central government’s disposal are new instruments such as the Antimonopoly Law, older tools such as the Law on Guarding State Secrets, and the state’s tremendous influence over Chinese finance and commerce. Foreign firms active in China face new regulatory challenges, from the antitrust obstacles of acquiring Chinese firms to the corruption risks of dealing with the state sector. Nathan Bush explored the intersection of China’s evolving antitrust, anticorruption, trade, and industrial policies. Nathan Bush is a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice Group of O’Melveny & Myers LLP. He currently serves as the General Counsel of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.