Corporate Finance courses

Academic Focus

Professor Chris Hennessy is a three-time winner of the Brattle Prize for outstanding corporate finance research and was named one of four rising stars in financial economics for 2010. He leads the Valuation programme as Academic Director and was formerly Associate Professor and Finance Area Chair at the Walter A Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley.

Recent Clients

He has worked with the US Department of Transportation, State of North Carolina and the Generic Pharmaceutical Association.

Experience

Professor Hennessy’s expertise centres on information economics, moral hazard and debt, debt restructuring, tax planning, financing dynamics and credit risk. He connects you to leading financial institutions, as research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and the European Corporate Governance Institute. He recently received a grant from the European Research Council to study the effect of tax changes on corporate financing decisions. Professor Hennessy’s work has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies. He is editor of the Review of Corporate Finance Studies and associate editor of the Review of Finance, Finance Research Letters, and Management Science.

Academic Focus

Chris Higson’s areas of expertise are in financial statements, financial performance and valuation, taxation, governance and regulation. He serves as an expert witness in these areas. He comments on financial matters on television, radio and in the international press.

Experience

Chris Higson has advised on financial performance in many of the world’s leading industrial and financial companies. He is a member of the oversight board of a UK investment company and has been involved in creating several new businesses, including a consultancy advising governments and financial institutions on the value of their information assets, and a media start-up. He has had several non-executive roles for the UK Government, as a member of the UK’s Industrial Development Advisory Board, the Regional Growth Fund panel, in the UK Green Investment Bank and the British Business Bank.

Academic Focus

Professor Henri Servaes offers participants new approaches to adding shareholder value, number analysis and governance.

Recent Clients

PwC, Deutsche Bank, Anglo American and Chase Manhattan.

Experience

Professor Servaes is Chair of the Finance Faculty, Director of the Institute of Finance and Accounting and an award-winning author published in the world’s top finance journals.