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WORLD RECOGNITION of DISTINGUISHED GENERAL COUNSEL GUEST OF HONOR: Carolyn Herzog Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Arm Limited Copyright © 2019 Directors Roundtable WORLD RECOGNITION of DISTINGUISHED GENERAL COUNSEL THE SPEAKERS Carolyn Herzog Doug Cogen Lior Nuchi Executive Vice President and Partner, Fenwick & West LLP Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP General Counsel, Arm Limited Dominic Robertson Karalyn Mildorf Kevin Anderson Partner, Slaughter and May Partner, White & Case LLP Partner, Wiley Rein LLP (The biographies of the speakers are presented at the end of this transcript. Further information about the Directors Roundtable can be found at our website, directorsroundtable.com.) TO THE READER General Counsel are more important than ever in history. Boards of Directors look increasingly to them to enhance financial and business strategy, compliance, and integrity of corporate operations. In recognition of our distinguished Guest of Honor and her colleagues, we are presenting Carolyn Herzog and the Legal Department of Arm with the leading global honor for General Counsel and Law Departments. Arm is a world-leading global semiconductor and software IP company, providing solutions for AI, IoT [Internet of Things], and security. Her address focused on key issues facing the General Counsel of an international technology corporation. The pan- elists’ additional topics include mergers and acquisitions, technology and innovation, UK/EU digital tax proposals; national security and CFIUS; and intellectual property. The Directors Roundtable Institute is a 501(c)(3) which organizes the preeminent worldwide programming for Directors and their advisors, including General Counsel. Join us on social media for the latest news for Directors on corporate governance and other important VIP issues. Fall 2018 2 Copyright © 2019 Directors Roundtable WORLD RECOGNITION of DISTINGUISHED GENERAL COUNSEL Carolyn Herzog is EVP and General Counsel region, based in the UK. Carolyn has served at Arm. Carolyn joins Arm from Symantec on the European Board of the Association where she served as the Chief Compliance of Corporate Counsel as well as the Board Offi cer, Vice President and Deputy General for the National Cyber Security Alliance, Counsel responsible for the Offi ce of Ethics and prior to moving to the technology sec- and Compliance, the Privacy Program Offi ce, tor, Carolyn worked in the international Litigation, Employment, Product Legal, development arena, both in the non- Global Enterprise Go-to-Market, Americas profi t sector and with The World Bank in Sales and Services and License Compliance. Washington, D.C. Carolyn Herzog Previously, Carolyn was the Vice President, Head of Legal and Public Affairs for Executive Vice President and Symantec’s Europe, Middle East and Africa General Counsel Arm Limited Arm-based chips in products that connect Our People people, enhance the human experience, Arm was founded by a dozen engi- and make anything possible. Extensible, neers working from a converted barn in Arm defi nes the pervasive computing shap- scalable, and ever evolving, it is a founda- Cambridge, UK, a quarter of a century ago. ing today’s connected world. Realized in tion that confi rms how we lead by design By the end of 2015, that team had grown to 125+ billion silicon chips, our device archi- — to serve today, anticipate tomorrow. more than 4,200 people in sites around the tectures orchestrate the performance of the world. Arm gives its people the capabilities, technology transforming our lives — from ARM Company Highlights processes and infrastructure to enable them smartphones to supercomputers, from med- • World’s leading semiconductor IP company to develop and thrive as the business scales ical instruments to agricultural sensors, and and strengthens. At the same time, we seek from base stations to servers. • Arm technologies reach 70% of the global population to nurture a work culture that remains true to our founders’ original vision; empower- A Global Ecosystem of Innovators • More than 6,000 employees from 61 ing our engineers to be innovative and drive The foundation of a global ecosystem of nationalities Arm-based technology into all areas where technology innovators, we empower the compute happens, maximizing their creative world’s most successful business and con- • More than 130 billion Arm-based chips potential and enabling all of our people to sumer brands. Every day our thousands shipped to date be their brilliant selves. of partners embed more than 45 million • An ecosystem of more than 1,000 partners Fall 2018 3 Copyright © 2019 Directors Roundtable WORLD RECOGNITION of DISTINGUISHED GENERAL COUNSEL KAREN TODD: Good morning. I’m Karen Todd, the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Directors Roundtable, and I’d like to welcome you here today. I especially want to thank the law firms, Bar groups, professional groups, universities, and other organizations who invited their members to attend this event. We do appreciate it, and we hope that you enjoy the discussion. I wanted to give you a brief on this program series. We honor General Counsel because they are the moral compass of companies, and they have a lot to handle. We wanted to give them an opportunity to tell you about their successful actions and how they deal with business in today’s changing world. We’ve been doing this program since 2005, and in that time, we’ve honored over 50 Herzog and the Law Department of Arm. KAREN TODD: With that, I’m going to different companies internationally. Today, Carolyn has held the role of EVP and turn it over to Carolyn. we’re here to honor Carolyn Herzog and the General Counsel with Arm, the world’s Law Department of Arm. I’d like to acknowl- leading semiconductor IP company, since CAROLYN HERZOG: Thank you so edge all the people of the Law Department February of 2017. She joined Arm from much! It’s nice, because I was reminding of Arm who are here. [APPLAUSE] Symantec, where she served as the Chief the panel last night how much fun I had Compliance Officer, Vice President, and in law school, but that particular Dean Thank you. We’ve very glad you were able Deputy General Counsel. Carolyn is a very was not there when I was in law school. to be here. Arm has two different bases; one talented and sought-after professional. Prior [LAUGHTER] in the UK and another in Silicon Valley. to moving to the technology sector, Carolyn Obviously, it would be difficult to bring all worked in the non-profit sector and with the Thank you all so much for being here the UK people here, so we appreciate the World Bank in Washington, D.C. She is an and thank you very much to the Directors Silicon Valley people who are present. excellent Guest of Honor for the Directors Roundtable and our guests today for this Roundtable Institute. recognition. I’m truly grateful for this oppor- We have a distinguished panel that I tunity to represent Arm and our amazing Carolyn is an ideal candidate to address the will now introduce: Doug Cogan from legal team here. I’m also hugely appreciative key issues facing General Counsels’ offices Fenwick & West; Lior Nuchi from Norton to our law firm partners who support us in international technology corporations. Rose Fulbright; Dominic Robertson from every day, some of them through the fas- Her wide range of experiences in two major Slaughter and May; Karalyn Mildorf with cinating evolution of the company. You’ll technology companies, plus her wide range White & Case; and Kevin Anderson hear a little bit about that in this program. with Wiley Rein. of international experience, will ensure an engaging program. When I began my career, I couldn’t have Before we get started, I have a special sur- Congratulations to Carolyn for this worthy imagined the path that would lead me to prise for Carolyn. We contacted the Dean and well-earned honor. We are very proud where I am today. After honing my skills of the Law School of Wisconsin about this to be her law school. as a waitress, my first job was working event and she sent us this letter: on health and education projects at the My best wishes, World Bank in the African Department Dear Director Todd: Margaret Raymond in Washington, D.C. Now, I lead the legal Fred W. and Vi Miller Dean and It is my honor to be included in the Directors team for one of the most influential technol- Professor of Law Roundtable Institute World Recognition ogy companies in the world. It’s a company of Distinguished General Counsel Carolyn [APPLAUSE] that many of you probably have never heard Fall 2018 4 Copyright © 2019 Directors Roundtable WORLD RECOGNITION of DISTINGUISHED GENERAL COUNSEL of. Along the way — as you heard — I worked rhinoceros, and they use this tracking device for many years with a company you proba- in the horn of the rhinoceros to help protect bly have heard of — Symantec — one of the them from poachers. With this, they drasti- world’s leading cyber security companies. cally reduced the killing of rhinos in Africa This path, and my role now, illustrate the as a result of being able to track them. challenges and the changing role of General Counsel for all companies as we look to the Implementing technology for good is very future. Let’s face it — we’re here in Silicon much at the core of what Arm does. It Valley, and all of us spend our days looking made Simon proud and excited to hear this towards the future. story. We hear these kinds of stories every day, where Arm technology ends up in the This is a photo from my days post-World most unexpected places being used for excit- Bank, after law school.

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