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About Davis, Polk & Wardell
Davis Polk is a world leader in every area in which we practice. This excellence and breadth has made us the firm of choice for many of the world’s leading companies and financial institutions as they address the diverse legal and business challenges they face.
Our practice is organized into four departments—Corporate, Litigation, Tax and Trusts and Estates. The Corporate Department is further divided into three major practice groups—Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Credit—as well as a number of specialist groups. While not formally divided into subgroups, our Litigation Department is preeminent in such areas as securities litigation and compliance, white collar criminal defense, products liability and mass torts, antitrust, insolvency and restructuring, professional liability, banking, consumer actions, and directors' and officers' liability.
Davis Polk lawyers work in highly collaborative teams, which span across our practice and, if necessary, around the world. Our unique, team-oriented culture ensures that all necessary firm expertise and resources are employed to achieve the best possible results for our clients.
About TimeWarner
Time Warner Inc. is a leading global media and entertainment company with best-in-class businesses in filmed entertainment, interactive services, television networks, cable systems and publishing. Whether measured by quality, popularity or financial results, our divisions are at the top of their categories. America Online, Time Inc., Time Warner Cable, Home Box Office, New Line Cinema, Turner Broadcasting System and Warner Bros. Entertainment maintain unrivaled reputations for creativity and excellence as they keep people informed, entertained and connected.
Our enterprise is more than a collection of great brands that are owned under one roof. Time Warner’s businesses strive to gain competitive advantage from opportunities for constructive collaboration. We are innovators in technology, products and services. On the forefront of technology, Time Warner has pioneered industry-shifting products such as the DVD and digital cable. And Time Warner’s businesses continue to develop new and uniquely effective ways for our partners and advertisers to reach the markets, audiences and customers they seek.
Most important, our people’s leadership at every level – their creativity, talent and commitment to excellence -- ensures that Time Warner continues to provide the high-performance service, trustworthy information and enjoyable entertainment our audiences, members and customers expect.
About Harvard University East Asian Legal Studies
The Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Program (EALS) is the United States’ oldest and most extensive academic program devoted to the study of the law and legal history of the nations and peoples of East Asia and their interaction with the United States. The program was created in 1965 in response to increasing interest among lawyers and scholars of international and comparative law in the legal cultures of China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. The Law School offers instruction on the legal systems of East Asia and sponsors in-depth research conducted by scholars in residence. Joint programs of study can also be arranged on an individual basis with other parts of Harvard University. An active extra-curricular program includes a lunchtime speaker series that combines lectures and discussions on Asian legal themes in an informal setting, a workshop series providing a more formal setting for the presentation of research projects, and foreign language discussion groups on legal issues. EALS is directed by William P. Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and guided by a faculty advisory committee comprised of Professor Alford, Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies and Oliver Oldman, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School.
About Harvard Asia Law Society
The Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS) is an organization that brings together students and faculty members on the law school campus with an interest in Asia –- whether that interest is academic, professional, or social. The organization offers numerous social events throughout the year to meet JD and LL.M students and scholars who are interested in Asia practice and development issues, such as short trips to places all over the New England area. Members can also join a foreign language table, and practice one of a number of Asian languages.
About Harvard University Asia Center
The Harvard University Asia Center reflects Harvard’s profound commitment to the study of Asia. Established in 1997, the Asia Center provides logistical and financial support to a number of interdisciplinary programs and projects focusing on China, Japan, Korea, and more recently, South and Southeast Asia. The Asia Center is a focal point for interaction among Asian intellectual, artistic, political, and business circles and the Harvard community. The Asia Center plays a significant role in training the next generation of scholars by overseeing the undergraduate concentration in East Asian Studies and administering the Regional Studies - East Asia Program at Harvard. The Center also supports several student-run organizations and publications in addition to hosting associates and fellows.
About Yale University School of Management China Initiatives
Yale’s intellectual engagement with China’s financial development dates back to the 19th Century, when Yung Wing, famous Chinese economic reformer and 1854 graduate of Yale College, proposed the joint-stock financing of a domestic Chinese steamship transportation company to the governor of Jiangsu province in 1867. His vision became the basis for China’s first domestically-owned modern corporation, The China Merchant’s Steamship Navigation Company, and the beginnings of a stock market in China. China today shares some parallels to China of the 19th Century. While the country in the 21st Century is one of the world’s great political powers, China is undergoing dramatic economic, legal and other institutional changes. Like a century ago, China is one of the world’s most important producers of goods for the world market. Like a century ago, China is engaged in the process of globalization on all fronts: economically, legally, socially, culturally and financially. China’s financial innovations, in particular, hold the possibility to transform Chinese society for the better – to provide an environment for productive allocation of capital, to allow China’s savers to prepare for their future, to allow China’s businesses to tap the vast financial resources of its own citizens and the world’s investors, and to eventually transform China into a modern democratic society.
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