Georgetown Law “Corporate Counsel – Europe” : a video interview with Mario Monti

Building on 14 years of success with its Annual Corporate Counsel Institute, Georgetown Law inaugurated “Corporate Counsel Institute – Europe” yesterday in London. Planned by a special advisory board of in-house and outside counsel, the new program was designed to give in-house lawyers and private practitioners practical tips and up-to-the-minute developments affecting the representation of companies throughout Europe.

The program was led by leading general counsels, government officials, academics, jurists and law firm leaders and discussed and debated new case law, regulatory trends, evolving relationships between companies and the law firms representing them, and latest best practices in compliance and corporate governance.

And as one expects from Georgetown Law, they have put together an “A List” of law firm leaders, government officials and  thought leaders in the European legal community:  Mario Monti, John Timer, Nigel Boardman, etc.  For the full speakers list with biographies click here.  

To set the tone you can’t do better than have Mario Monti as your keynote speaker.  In his first term as an EU Commissioner, he was responsible for Internal Market, Financial Services and Financial Integration, Customs, and Taxation.   From 1999 until 2004, he was the European Union Competition Commissioner, in which capacity he initiated anti-monopoly proceedings against Microsoft.   He is currently professor and president of Bocconi University in Milan and the first chairman of Bruegel, a European think tank founded in 2005.

In his keynote address Professor Monti spoke about “the huge silent convergence”, the engines of economic growth in the EU and his upcoming report to EU Commission President Jose Barroso.  We spoke with him after his address: 

This has been an astounding networking event.  Our full coverage continues next week with analysis and video interviews from the conference.