Stream 3 : Stakeholders Versus Shareholders (Telfer School of Management) ,
1:30 pm

The alignment of interests between stakeholders and shareholders

Sophie L’Hélias is a 15-year investor activist veteran whose strategic investor and media strategies made her one of the premiere sources for activist investor initiatives and campaigns in Europe and the United States.

She advises CEOs on the complex and ever-changing investor environment, to which corporations need to adapt and develops new strategies, initiatives and tools to anticipate and address investor or stakeholder concerns.

She draws upon her extensive global experience as:

An activist investment manager: she was managing director of an activist event-driven global equities hedge fund.

An activist investor campaign advisor: she developed investor campaigns for numerous public pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds and corporate raiders

A co-founder of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), whose current investor membership has more than 10 trillion dollars of assets under management. Ms. L’Hélias was Treasurer and a member of the Board of Governors. She is currently a member of the ICG’s Corporate Governance Award’s Committee.

A corporate governance and shareholder rights expert:
Sophie L’Hélias is Senior Fellow at the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center of Corporate Governance at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.


An M&A attorney: trained in the United States and in France and admitted to practice law in New York and Paris, Ms. L’Hélias specialized in M&A, privatization and shareholder rights.

Sophie L’Hélias is an MBA graduate of INSEAD Business School, a law graduate of the Universities of Pennsylvania, Pathéon Sorbonne (France) and the European Law Institute of Saarbrucken (Germany). She is a former columnist on corporate governance for a leading European financial daily and is the author of The Return of the Investor, comparing corporate governance practices in Europe and the United States.

www.lhelias.com