HBO’s Succession with Sean Berkowitz and Kate O’Leary (Season 3)

HBO’s Succession with Sean Berkowitz and Kate O’Leary (Season 3)

Author: Evan Epstein September 11, 2023 Duration: 1:10:45
Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. After popular demand, we cover Succession's third season, from a corporate governance perspective. We invited Sean Berkowitz, a partner at Latham & Watkins and former director of the special task force that investigated the Enron corporate scandal, and lead prosecutor in the criminal case against Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling. Kate O’Leary, the Global Executive Litigation Counsel at GE, comments from the perspective of an experienced in-house lawyer who deals with governance challenges in the real world. We covered the first season of Succession on E98 of this podcast (in May) and the second season on E102 (in June). If you have not heard those episodes, please feel free to check them out. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can also now contribute as a Patron on the link patreon.com/BoardroomGovernancePod and subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com

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