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The Teaching Team
Coates is a frequent panelist and speaker on M&A and financial institution regulation and a consultant to the SEC, law firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other participants in the M&A and capital markets. He is a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange. He is the author of numerous articles on corporate, securities, His current research at Harvard includes empirical studies of the purchasing of legal services by S&P 500 companies, the regulation and taxation of mutual funds, the causes and consequences of the completion or failure of M&A transactions, and the causes and consequences/effects of CEO and CLO turnover.
Professor Subramanian’s research explores topics in negotiations, corporate dealmaking, and deal process design. He has published articles in the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Business Review, and the Harvard Law Review, among other places. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal’s “Heard on the Street” column, the New York Times, the American Lawyer, The Deal’s “Corporate Control Alert”. His new book Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace (Norton 2010) synthesizes the findings from his research and teaching over the past decade. Professor Subramanian has been involved in major public-company deals such as Oracle’s $10.3 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, Cox Enterprises’ $8.9 billion freeze-out of the minority shareholders in Cox Communications, the $6.6 billion leveraged buyout of Toys “R” Us, and Exelon’s $8.0 billion hostile takeover bid for NRG. He also advises individuals, boards of directors, and management teams on issues of dealmaking and corporate governance. Professor Subramanian holds degrees in Economics, Law, and Business, all from Harvard University. George G. Triantis
Professor Triantis began his academic career in 1989 on the faculties of Law and of Management at the University of Toronto. His teaching and scholarship are in the fields of contracts, business law and bankruptcy. His recent work includes “Strategic Vagueness in Contracts: The Case of Corporate Acquisitions” (Yale Law Journal, 2010) and “Completing Contracts in the Shadow of Verification Costs” (Journal of Legal Studies 2008), as well the book, Foundations of Commercial Law (Foundation Press, 2010). He is a former editor of the Journal of Law & Economics and a former director of the American Law and Economics Association. Professor Triantis is currently Vice-Chair of the Avoiding Powers subcommittee of the ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee, and a member of the American Law Institute and the American Law and Economics Association.
Wilkins has written over 60 articles on the legal profession in leading scholarly journals and the popular press and is the co-author (along with his Harvard Law School colleague Andrew Kaufman) of one of the leading casebooks in the field. His current scholarly projects on the profession include After the J.D., a ten-year nationwide longitudinal study of lawyers’ careers, a quantitative and qualitative examination of how corporations purchase legal services, an empirical project on the development of “ethical infrastructure” in large law firms based on a series of focus groups with leading practitioners and regulators, and over 200 in-depth interviews in connection with a forthcoming Oxford University Press book on the development of the black corporate bar. Wilkins also teaches several courses on lawyers and other related professionals, including the country’s only four credit course on the Legal Profession, a course entitled “Professional Service Firms in the Twenty First Century,” seminars on The Future of the Large Law Firm and Cause Lawyers, and an introductory lecture for all first year students on the legal profession and careers. Professor Wilkins is a frequent speaker at academic conferences, law firms and other professional service organizations, and bar groups both in the United States and around the world. He is also a member of Harvard University’s Task Force on Professional Schools.
In addition, Executive Education programs will benefit from the insights of visiting faculty Dan DiPietro, and Ben Heineman.
The Law Firm Group's 200 professionals provide financial advice and services to more than 35,000 attorneys and over 550 law firms in 10 offices in the US and London. The Law Firm Group lends to over 200 law firms in the US & UK, including almost 60 of the Am Law 100, and currently has $6 billion in loans to law firms and their attorneys. Prior to joining Citigroup in 1987, DiPietro spent five years managing Mellon Bank's middle market lending office in New York. Previously, he was a banker within Chase Manhattan Bank’s middle market lending division. He also managed a not-for-profit organization and taught in the NYC school system. DiPietro holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BA from St. John's University. He resides in Sea Cliff, NY with his wife Ann (35 years). He is the father of three and grandfather of one. Aside from his "day job," he teaches yoga.
A graduate of Harvard College (1965), Oxford University (1967 -- graduate degree/political science) and Yale Law School (1971), former Rhodes Scholar, editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Mr. Heineman practiced law in Washington before serving at HEW from 1977-1980, ending his tenure there as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. He was then managing partner of the Washington office of Sidley & Austin, focusing on Supreme Court and test case litigation. In 1987, Mr. Heineman became Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the General Electric Company located in Fairfield, Connecticut. In 2004, he was named GE's Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs. Mr. Heineman is a member of the American Law Institute; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; a member of the Board of Transparency International-USA; a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center; and a member of the Board of Managers and Overseers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is the author of books on British race relations and the American presidency.
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John C. Coates IV joined the Harvard Law School faculty
Ashish Nanda is Director of the Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad. Prior to this role, he was the Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, where he also served as Faculty Director of Harvard Law School Executive Education and Research Director of the Program on the Legal Profession. Additionally, he taught “Leadership in Law Firms” and “Professional Services: Advanced Topics” in the J.D. program. Before joining Harvard Law School, Nanda was a Harvard Business School faculty member for 13 years, where he continues to teach executive education courses.
Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the H. Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School. He is the first person in the history of Harvard University to hold tenured appointments at both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. At HLS he teaches courses in negotiations and corporate law. At HBS, he teaches in several executive education programs, such as Strategic Negotiations, Changing the Game, and Making Corporate Boards More Effective. He is the faculty chair for the JD/MBA program at Harvard University and the Vice Chair for Research at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty he spent three years at McKinsey & Company in their New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C. offices.
George Triantis is a Professor of Law at Stanford University and an affiliated faculty of the Stanford’s Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance. Prior to joining the Standford Law faculty in 2011, he was the Eli Goldston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and formerly held the chairs of Seymour Logan Professor at the University of Chicago and Perre Bowen Professor at the University of Virginia.
David Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is also the Faculty Director of the School’s Program on the Legal Profession and Center on Lawyers and the Professional Services Industry, as well as, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Faculty Associate of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
Mr. DiPietro has been a student of the legal industry for over 25 years. As
client head of the Law Firm Group at the Citigroup Private Bank, he regularly
meets with law firm leaders to present financial analysis of their firms' performance
vs. a group of peer firms. Dan speaks at industry roundtables and partner retreats
and has been published in a number of legal industry periodicals including
frequent contributions to the American Lawyer.
Mr.
Heineman is a distinguished senior fellow of the Program on the Legal Profession
at Harvard Law School and senior fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government.