Breakfast Roundtable Series
Each year the Center co-sponsors several breakfast roundtables at which notable speakers address practitioners, members of the Center's faculty, and IBL Fellows. Among the many past speakers have been high-level government officials, Securities and Exchange Commissioners, and foreign securities regulators.

Speaker: Professor Boldizsar Nagy

Customs and Border Protection on "The Beginning and End of Borders"

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An International Business Law Breakfast Roundtable will be held on the subject of “Challenges to Multinational Firms” at the firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

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Presented by Professor Frank Partnoy.

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Thomas C. Baxter, Jr. spoke at this breakfast on Banking Supervision and Economic Sanctions: The New Frontier in Enforcement.

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A panel discussion moderated by Professor Kelly, featured fashion’s legal elite: Steven R. Gursky ’79, a partner at Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky; Frances P. Hadfield, a co-organizer of the event and an attorney and customs broker with Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt; Guillermo C. Jimenez, an attorney and Professor of International Trade at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and co-editor of Fashion Law: a Guide for Designers, Fashion Executives and Attorneys; Barbara Kolsun, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Stuart Weitzman; and Karen Ceil Lapidus ’84, Vice President and General Counsel of Loehmann’s.

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One of the main goals of international taxation treaties is to alleviate or mitigate the risk of double taxation on taxpayers. The Fifth Protocol of the Canada-U.S. Tax Treaty, in force since late 2008, is one such treaty.

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Brooklyn Law School’s Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law (IBL) hosted its first Breakfast Roundtable of the academic year on October 9, 2009. Elisse B. Walter, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, presented an “Update of International Initiatives,” identifying recent SEC efforts to ensure investor protection in light of the increasing global nature of financial markets. Walter was introduced by Roberta Karmel, Brooklyn Law School’s Centennial Professor of Law and former SEC Commissioner who served when Walter was an SEC staff member. The audience included alumni, academicians, attorneys, reporters and BLS International Business Law Fellows.

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Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, featured Andrew “Buddy” Donohue, Director of the Division of Investment Management of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Donohue is among the most senior financial services regulators in the United States, with principal oversight for the $30 trillion investment management industry.

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