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54 TH ANNUAL GEORGE A. KATZ<br />
TORCH of<br />
LEARNING AWARD<br />
LUNCHEON<br />
HONORING<br />
SCOTT A. EDELMAN<br />
CHAIRMAN, MILBANK<br />
ANN M. KAPPLER<br />
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL AND<br />
CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER, PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL<br />
THURSDAY, MAY 9, <strong>2024</strong> | 12:00 PM<br />
MIDTOWN, NEW YORK CITY
54 TH ANNUAL GEORGE A. KATZ<br />
TORCH of LEARNING AWARD<br />
LUNCHEON<br />
TRIBUTE COMMITTEE<br />
TRUSTEE<br />
MILBANK LLP<br />
PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL<br />
WACHTELL, LIPTON, ROSEN & KATZ<br />
FOUNDER<br />
DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON LLP<br />
DECHERT LLP<br />
DENTONS US LLP<br />
DUBIN RESEARCH AND CONSULTING<br />
FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER LLP<br />
FRIED, FRANK, HARRIS, SHRIVER & JACOBSON LLP<br />
GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP<br />
MINTZ & GOLD LLP<br />
PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, WHARTON & GARRISON LLP<br />
SEYFARTH SHAW LLP<br />
SULLIVAN & CROMWELL LLP<br />
WALSH PIZZI O'REILLY FALANGA, LLP<br />
WILLKIE FARR & GALLAGHER LLP<br />
WILMERHALE LLP<br />
LAW REVIEW<br />
CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE LLP<br />
KRAMER LEVIN NAFTALIS & FRANKEL LLP<br />
O'MELVENY & MYERS LLP<br />
QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN, LLP<br />
SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE,<br />
MEAGHER & FLOM LLP<br />
WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP<br />
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SUPPORTER<br />
ANALYSIS GROUP, INC.<br />
SHARI AND JEFF ARONSON<br />
CARLTON FIELDS, P.A.<br />
CORNERSTONE RESEARCH<br />
THE COUNCIL OF INSURANCE AGENTS & BROKERS<br />
STEPHEN M. CUTLER AND WENDY N. ZIMMERMANN<br />
JOELE FRANK WILKINSON BRIMMER KATCHER<br />
LORI KRAMER AND STEVE FRAIDIN<br />
KAPLAN HECKER & FINK LLP<br />
ANN M. KAPPLER AND MARK HERLIHY<br />
LOCKTON COMPANIES<br />
MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP<br />
MORVILLO ABRAMOWITZ GRAND IASON & ANELLO PC<br />
PAUL HASTINGS LLP<br />
BARRY F. SCHWARTZ<br />
BART M. SCHWARTZ<br />
STEPTOE LLP<br />
CHARLES A. STILLMAN<br />
TRAVELERS<br />
LORIE ALMON<br />
AMANDA S. AMERT<br />
DANIEL D. BARTFELD<br />
MICHAEL B. CARLINSKY<br />
H. RODGIN COHEN<br />
STEPHEN M. CUTLER<br />
JOSHUA DUBIN<br />
ERWIN DWECK<br />
ADAM O. EMMERICH<br />
LAURA GEIST<br />
DAVID J. GREENWALD<br />
SANDRA D. HAUSER<br />
GINA HOUGH<br />
BRAD S. KARP<br />
MEREDITH E. KOTLER<br />
ANDREW J. LEVANDER<br />
LORI A. MARTIN<br />
DAVID MEISTER<br />
CO-CHAIRS<br />
NICOLE LEVIN MESARD<br />
ATARA MILLER<br />
GARY P. NAFTALIS<br />
DANIEL A. NEFF<br />
MAEVE O’CONNOR<br />
TRICIA B. O’REILLY<br />
DAVID W. OGDEN<br />
STEVEN R. PEIKIN<br />
JONATHAN ROSENBERG<br />
VINCENT A. SAMA<br />
JED M. SCHWARTZ<br />
ERIC SCHWIMMER<br />
SCOTT A. SINDER<br />
ORIN S. SNYDER<br />
IRA LEE SORKIN<br />
AVI WEITZMAN<br />
BARRY M. WOLF<br />
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54 TH ANNUAL GEORGE A. KATZ<br />
TORCH of LEARNING AWARD<br />
LUNCHEON<br />
HONORING<br />
SCOTT A. EDELMAN<br />
CHAIRMAN, MILBANK<br />
ANN M. KAPPLER<br />
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL<br />
AND CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER,<br />
PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL<br />
THURSDAY, MAY 9, <strong>2024</strong> | 12:00 PM<br />
MIDTOWN, NEW YORK CITY<br />
Address will be provided upon RSVP.<br />
Glatt Kosher. Business Attire.<br />
Funds raised will support the Hebrew University Faculty of Law<br />
and the mission of its American Friends<br />
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PAST AWARD LAUREATES<br />
(from inception 1970)<br />
JOSEPH M. PROSKAUER<br />
ROBERT B. MCKAY<br />
HON. ROBERT M. MORGENTHAU<br />
PROF. PAUL A. FREUND<br />
HON. JOHN V. LINDSAY<br />
RITA E. HAUSER<br />
GEORGE A. KATZ<br />
HON. STANLEY H. FULD<br />
MILTON S. GOULD<br />
BORIS KOSTELANETZ<br />
HON. LOUIS J. LEFKOWITZ<br />
ALBERT PARKER<br />
HERBERT KRONISH<br />
BARRY H. GARFINKEL<br />
CHARLES A. STILLMAN<br />
BERNARD W. NUSSBAUM<br />
HON. ABRAHAM D. SOFAER<br />
DONALD J. COHN<br />
DEAN NORMAN REDLICH<br />
STEPHEN E. KAUFMAN<br />
STEPHEN L. HAMMERMAN<br />
SHEILA L. BIRNBAUM<br />
ELKAN ABRAMOWITZ<br />
JULES RITHOLZ<br />
KENNETH J. BIALKIN<br />
ALAN LEVINE<br />
IRA LEE SORKIN<br />
ROBERT J. JOSSEN<br />
RICHARD D. WEINBERG<br />
JODI J. SCHWARTZ<br />
MICHAEL A. CARDOZO<br />
GEORGE A. SCHIEREN<br />
DANIEL J. BELLER<br />
FLOYD ABRAMS<br />
ROBERT J. KATZ<br />
BRAD S. KARP<br />
BARRY F. SCHWARTZ<br />
ADAM O. EMMERICH<br />
GARY P. NAFTALIS<br />
MARY JO WHITE<br />
JAY B. KASNER<br />
ANDREW J. LEVANDER<br />
MICHAEL S. FELDBERG<br />
JANE C. SHERBURNE<br />
DAVID BOIES<br />
H. RODGIN COHEN<br />
ERIC S. GOLDSTEIN<br />
STEPHEN D. SUSMAN<br />
SUSAN E. BRUNE<br />
EDWARD G. TURAN<br />
JENNIFER M. DANIELS<br />
MEREDITH E. KOTLER<br />
MEYER G. KOPLOW<br />
THEODORE N. MIRVIS<br />
DAVID B. PITOFSKY<br />
LAWRENCE J. ZWEIFACH<br />
JOHN S. SIFFERT<br />
MARK A. KIRSCH<br />
MARTIN LIPTON<br />
STACEY R. FRIEDMAN<br />
STEPHEN M. CUTLER<br />
ROBERT B. FISKE, JR.<br />
STEPHANIE GOLDSTEIN<br />
ROBERTA A. KAPLAN<br />
AUDREY STRAUSS<br />
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HONOREES<br />
SCOTT A. EDELMAN<br />
Scott A. Edelman is Chairman of Milbank LLP and<br />
a member of the firm’s Litigation & Arbitration<br />
Group. Mr. Edelman specializes in high-stakes,<br />
bet-the-company litigation and trials across several<br />
substantive areas of the law, including securities,<br />
commercial and white collar.<br />
Over the course of his career, Mr. Edelman has<br />
taken more than 18 cases to trial and argued dozens<br />
of appeals. In 2017, Mr. Edelman was inducted<br />
as a fellow into The American College of Trial<br />
Lawyers (ACTL).<br />
Mr. Edelman joined Milbank in 1994 and became<br />
a partner in 1995. Prior to joining Milbank, he<br />
served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York<br />
from 1990 to 1994. Mr. Edelman started his career at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.<br />
He received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the<br />
Harvard Law Review and a John Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, and received his<br />
B.A., summa cum laude, and M.A. degrees, both in Economics, from Yale University. Mr.<br />
Edelman is a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society.<br />
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HONOREES<br />
ANN M. KAPPLER<br />
As executive vice president, general counsel and<br />
chief compliance officer at Prudential Financial,<br />
Ann Kappler is the head of Law, Compliance,<br />
Business Ethics and External Affairs, leading a<br />
global team of over 1100 employees. She is a<br />
member of the Executive Leadership Team, and<br />
Operating and Enterprise Risk Committees. She<br />
was appointed in September 2020, after serving<br />
as the company’s deputy general counsel and<br />
head of External Affairs for six years.<br />
Prior to joining Prudential in 2009, Kappler<br />
was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale<br />
and Dorr in Washington, D.C., where she<br />
focused on emerging issues at the intersection of<br />
regulation, legislation and litigation. Her previous roles included litigation partner at<br />
Jenner & Block and general counsel at Fannie Mae.<br />
Kappler serves on the boards of directors of the Pro Bono Partnership (Treasurer)<br />
and the National Health Law Program (Chair), and is a member of the Board of<br />
Visitors of the Dartmouth College Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. Kappler<br />
has served on the boards of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights<br />
and Urban Affairs, Appleseed Foundation, and Global Rights; and was a longtime<br />
member of the board of trustees of the Lowell School in Washington, D.C., where<br />
she served as chair. She has earned numerous awards including 2018 Executive<br />
Women of New Jersey Policymakers honoree, NJBIZ Law Power 50 2021–2023,<br />
ranked fourth on Attorney Intel’s Top 25 General Counsels of 2023, 2023 NJ LEEP<br />
Community Impact Award, and was the recipient of the Women, Influence & Power<br />
in Law for In-House Thought Leadership by Corporate Counsel in 2023. She is a<br />
frequent speaker on topics such as legal and compliance best practices, diversity and<br />
inclusion, and is an advocate for workplace mental health issues.<br />
Kappler graduated from Dartmouth College, magna cum laude, and received her law<br />
degree from New York University School of Law, where she received the Alumnae<br />
Key Award and was a member of the Order of the Coif and editor-in-chief of the<br />
Law Review. She clerked for Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Judge Abner<br />
Mikva and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry Blackmun.<br />
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THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (HU) is Israel’s premier academic and<br />
research institution. Ranked among the world’s top 100 universities, HU serves over 23,000<br />
students from 80 countries. HU faculty and alumni have won eight Nobel Prizes (seven of<br />
which were awarded since 2000) and a Fields Medal. The university conducts nearly 40% of<br />
Israel’s civilian scientific research and has received over 11,000 patents. HU has student exchange<br />
agreements with more than 90 institutions in over 30 countries, and the university’s Rothberg<br />
International School annually hosts approximately 2,000 overseas students from 80 countries.<br />
For more about the Hebrew University, visit https://en.huji.ac.il/.<br />
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LAW is the flagship of legal education and research<br />
in Israel. The Faculty of Law was founded as the first law faculty at an Israeli university in 1949, just<br />
after the establishment of the State of Israel. Most of the leadership of the Israeli legal system, including<br />
most of our past and present Supreme Court Justices, have graduated from the law faculty, or taught<br />
therein. Most of the recipients of the prestigious Israel Prize in Law and Criminology also hail from<br />
the faculty. The law faculty’s research work, which involves developments in legal theory with a global<br />
application and more practical oriented study of law from critical and comparative perspectives,<br />
is regularly published in the world's top law journals and publishing houses.<br />
THE GEORGE A. KATZ TORCH OF LEARNING AWARD is presented annually to distinguished<br />
members of the legal community and recognizes the leadership, scholarship and dedication<br />
to the betterment of humanity. It embodies the high ideals and philanthropic commitment of<br />
the late George A. Katz (z”l), co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and dear friend of the<br />
American Friends of the Hebrew University.<br />
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY (<strong>AFHU</strong>) is a national, not-forprofit<br />
organization based in the United States. <strong>AFHU</strong> is headquartered in New York and has seven<br />
regional offices working in close partnership with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. <strong>AFHU</strong><br />
provides supporters, Hebrew University alumni, and the public with stimulating programs and<br />
events and organizes missions to Israel. The organization’s fundraising activities support scholarly<br />
and scientific achievement at the Hebrew University, create scholarships, construct new facilities,<br />
and assist the University’s efforts to attract and retain outstanding faculty. For more information,<br />
please visit www.afhu.org.<br />
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM<br />
Daniel I. Schlessinger, Chair, Board of Governors<br />
Professor Asher Cohen, President<br />
Professor Menahem Ben-Sasson, Chancellor<br />
Professor Tamir Sheafer, Rector<br />
Yishai Fraenkel, Vice President and Director-General<br />
Ambassador Yossi Gal, Vice President for<br />
Advancement and External Relations<br />
Professor Mona Khoury, Vice President of<br />
Strategy and Diversity<br />
Professor Aaron Palmon, Vice President for<br />
Research and Development<br />
Professor Oron Shagrir, Vice President for<br />
International Affairs<br />
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF<br />
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY<br />
Pamela Nadler Emmerich, National President<br />
Clive Kabatznik, National Chair of the Board<br />
Joshua W. Rednik, Chief Executive Officer<br />
Ariel Londoño, Chief Financial and<br />
Operations Officer<br />
Alison Freed, Chief Development Officer<br />
Glennys Huhn, Chief Human Resources Officer<br />
Eileen Hume, Chief Strategy Officer<br />
Monica Loebl, National Director of<br />
Development<br />
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF<br />
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY<br />
NORTHEAST REGION<br />
Jeffrey T. Kuvin, President<br />
Maura Milles, Executive Director<br />
Robin Milich, Senior Philanthropy Officer<br />
Rachel Sigman, Philadelphia Director<br />
Wilhelmina Waldman, Philanthropy Officer<br />
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54 TH ANNUAL GEORGE A. KATZ<br />
TORCH of LEARNING AWARD<br />
LUNCHEON<br />
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