Recent Roles Click for full CV

Current Positions:

• Professor of Finance, City, University of London, since 1990

• Visiting Professorship positions: Université Paris Dauphine (France); Catholica University Lisbon (Portugal).

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

  • Valuation of banks, Tunisia Ministry of Finance​ (in french)

  • Bank 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

  • Valuation of startup - Bristol Crown Court Report

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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:

• Raising capital and valuation of start-ups Click here YouTube or Facebook Video 

• Principles of financial distress Click here

• Covid-19 and financial distress Click here

• Covid-19 Perspectives on the impact of COVID-19 Click here

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Latest students' course evaluations:

• Full-time MBA Click here

• Modular Executive London MBA Click here 

• Evening Executive London MBA Click here

• Modular Executive Dubai MBA Click here 

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