2023 Winners!
Patrick Drown (Haas) & Alex Sasse (Law), representing Boogle
Finalists
Waghmini Lingannagari (Haas) & Yun Yu (Law), representing GPTeahouse
Fall 2023 Schedule:
Participant Training: October 16
Preliminary Round: October 23 (evening)
Semifinal Round: October 26 (evening)
Final Round: October 30
12:50 – 2:00 PM in the Warren Room
Event Description
The Berkeley Law Advocacy Competitions Program and Haas School of Business proudly present the Emma and Joseph H. Halloum Business Competition. The competition, open to all second- and third-year JD students and LL.M. students, is a pioneering effort to combine the unique skills sets of Berkeley Law students and Berkeley Haas MBA students in one competition. Each Fall, the competition pairs MBA and law students to tackle a challenging real world transaction. The fact pattern provides teams with the opportunity to jointly analyze a complex transaction, educate one another, and develop a cohesive strategy using each team member’s strengths. Teams then compete by attempting to negotiate various elements of the transaction in a limited amount of time. Like the real world, the results depend on a team’s ability to work cooperatively both alongside and across the negotiation table. Judges include practicing attorneys, business professionals, and professors who rank teams based on their preparation, teamwork, and outcome.
A Huge Thank You to Joseph Halloum
Berkeley Law alum Joseph Halloum (’10) created and generously funded both the Fall and Spring Halloum competitions, which provide a unique opportunity for students to get a taste of deal negotiations.
Joseph is a corporate partner in the Silicon Valley office of Freshfields. He represents a wide range of transactions, corporate governance issues and securities law matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, activist investor situations, strategic sales and joint ventures, domestic and cross-border transactions, debt and equity financing, and SEC reporting obligations. Joseph regularly represents companies and private equity firms in the U.S. and in cross-border deals. Joseph was recently ranked in 2021, 2020, and 2019 as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star” for M&A, recognized with a 2019 California “Trailblazer” award by The Recorded and has been consistently named in ILFR1000. He was also recognized by The Daily Journal with a 2016 California Lawyer “Attorney of the Year” award.
Past Halloum Business Competition Winners
2023
Alex Sasse (Berkeley Law) and Patrick Drown (Haas)
2022
Snovia Moiz (Berkeley Law) and Elizabeth O’Grady (Haas)
2021
Laura Quazzo (Berkeley Law) and Riddhima Batta (Haas)
2020
Anne Luquette (Berkeley Law) and Vaibhav Anand (Haas)
2019
Event not hosted
2018
Kurt Kurzenhauser (Berkeley Law) and Claudia Luck (Haas)
2017
Luke Blackett (Berkeley Law) and Olga Ballard (Haas)
2016
Dannielle Antone (Berkeley Law) and Chinmay Malaviya (Haas)
2015
Madisson Gorman (Berkeley Law) and Lucy Hakobyan (Haas)
2014
Jared Ginsburg (Berkeley Law) and Jamaur Bronner (Haas)
2013
Meredith Pressfield (Berkeley Law) and Roger Pai (Haas)
2012
Page Robinson (Berkeley Law) and Mike McClay (Haas)