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Recent Roles Click for full CV

Current Positions:

  • Professor of Finance, Bayes Business School, City, University of London, since 09/1990

  • Visiting Professorships: Université Paris Dauphine (France); Catholica University Lisbon (Portugal)

  • Academic consultant: Finsimco, an EdTech company that provides Investment Banking simulations to leading financial services firms and business schools 

  • Consultant in Corporate Finance: Recent projects (Reports available upon request):

    • Bank valuation and restructuring, Tunisia Ministry of Finance​ (in French)

    • How to list on the stock market (Initial Public Offerings) - London and Edinburgh 

    • Financing of start-ups (Angels and Venture Capitalists)

    • How to compute the cost of capital of the firm

    • Expert witness: Valuation of start-up - Bristol Crown Court

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Research/Teaching and Consulting Interests

  • Applied Corporate Finance:

  • Dividend Policy: Taxes and dividends, Ex-day price behaviour, Dividends and R&D

  • Financing: Capital structure, Financing of small companies, VC, IPO, Leasing

  • Corporate Restructuring: M&A, Spin-offs, Carve-outs, Divestments, Share repurchases, Bankruptcy, Corporate recovery, and valuation

  • Capital Markets: News announcements, Insider trading, Institutional trading, Efficiency

  • Corporate Governance: Monitoring role of institutions, Managerial ownership, Board structure

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Recent publications

  1. Kashefi-Poor, Eilnaz and Meziane Lasfer, 2019, Taxes, Governance, and Debt Maturity Structure: International Evidence. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money 58, 136–161 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2018.09.011

  2. Bruyland, Evy, Meziane Lasfer, Wouter De Maeseneire, and Wei Song, 2019, The Performance of Acquisitions by High Default Risk Bidders. Journal of Banking and Finance, 101, 37-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2019.01.019

  3. Golubov, Andrey, Meziane Lasfer, and Valeriya Vitkova, 2020, Active catering to dividend clienteles: Evidence from takeovers. Journal of Financial Economics, 137, 815-836
    http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/22666/

  4. Chen, Jie, Meziane Lasfer, Wei Song, and Si Zhou, 2021, Recession managers and mutual fund performance Journal of Corporate Finance (forthcoming)

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Latest video contributions on financial distress and Covid-19 impact on businesses:

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Latest students' course evaluations:

 

Latest media contributions:

  • Financial Times Click here

  • UK TV Channel 4 Dispatches on Private Equity Click here 

  • Aramco IPO Click here

  • Mergemarket Feb 2020 Making the best out of distressed M&A: Click here

  • Some of my comments on Ant group reported in The Guardian on 3 Nov 2020: Click here

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