Gerald Backman

Retired Partner Corporate Department

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Current

Harvard University

LL.B.

1962

cum laude

University of Pennsylvania

B.A.

1959

Publication

Publication

Implementing the Final Sarbanes-Oxley Rules of Professional Conduct for Lawyers (San Francisco, August 11, 2003)

The Role and Functions of the Audit Committee (New York, July 15, 2003)

Audit Committees and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (New York, New York, June 02, 2003)

The Metaphysics of Integration of Private and Public Offerings (New York, May 13, 2003)

Corporate Governance and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (New York, April 03, 2003)

Enhanced Disclosure in a Post-Enron World: Credibility through Disclosure: Satisfying Investors, Insurers and Creditors Post-Enron (New York, May 23, 2002)

Private Placements, "The Basics of Private Placements." Sponsored by PLI. (New York, NY, April 15, 2002)

Annual Fall Symposium on Audit Committees. (New York, NY, October 31, 2001)

Financial Executives Institute, "New Requirements To Improve Disclosure for Investors, Analysts and the Media." (Melville, NY, January 18, 2001)

Securities Act Metaphysics in an Electronic World (New York, NY, November 01, 2000) Practising Law Institute 32nd Annual Institute on Securities Regulation