HBA Mergers & Acquisitions Law Section

In Person Presentation

Insider Trading

Professor Ragazzo will survey the law of insider trading from its origins to its more modern development.  He will examine economic arguments for and against insider trading and consider whether modern doctrine fulfills the policies that justify proscribing insider trading.

 
Robert A. Ragazzo
Robert A. Ragazzo is a University of Houston Law Foundation Professor. Professor Ragazzo teaches in the areas of federal civil procedure and business law. He received the University of Houston’s Teaching Excellence Award in 1994 and 2006, the Student Bar Association’s Professor of the Year Award in 1991 and 2004, and the Order of the Barons’ Professor of the Year Award in 1993, 1995, and 2006. Professor Ragazzo graduated summa cum laude from Fordham University in 1982, with a B.A. in Political Science, and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1985. While at Harvard, he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After a clerkship with the Honorable Jon O. Newman on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Professor Ragazzo spent four years as a litigation attorney with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a New York law firm that specializes in mergers and acquisitions. Professor Ragazzo came to the University of Houston Law Center in the fall of 1990 as an Associate Professor of Law. He was tenured in 1995 and promoted to Professor of Law in 1999. Professor Ragazzo was a George Butler Research Professor of Law from 2000 to 2002 and became a University of Houston Law Foundation Professor of Law in 2005.

Thursday, June 25, 2026

11:30 AM – 1 PM

Networking and lunch begin at 11:30 AM; presentation begins at Noon.

 Location

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

1111 Louisiana St., 44^th Floor

Houston, Tx 77002

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Section Members - Free to Attend

Non Members - $20 

Brought to you by the M&A Section Council

 
W. Robert Shearer, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (Chair)
Charles Koerth, Gray Reed LLP (Immediate Past Chair)
Rachel Fitzgerald, Troutman Pepper Locke (Treasurer)
Federica Castro, Mayer Brown (Secretary)
Efren Acosta, Reed Smith LLP
Lauren Anderson, Latham & Watkins LLP
Philip Dunlap, Bradley Arant LLP
Allison Pearce, Troutman Pepper Locke
Professor Robert Ragazzo, University of Houston Law Center
Bob Rapfogel, Rapfogel Law Firm PLLC
Brittany Sakowitz, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

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1111 Louisiana St., 44^th Floor
Houston, Tx 77002