SPEAKER
Professor Vincenzo Bavoso
Law school, University of Manchester
Vincenzo Bavoso is a Professor (Chair) of Commercial Law in the Law School, University of Manchester, where he has previously been a lecturer and senior lecturer. Before returning to Manchester, he was a research associate in the Tipping Points project at Durham University. This was a multidisciplinary project funded by the Leverhulme Trust where he focused on the global financial crisis in the banking sector. Before then, he held academic appointments at Kingston University, London, and as teaching assistant at the University of Manchester, where he also completed his PhD. He held visiting appointments at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London; the China-EU School of Law, at the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing; the National University of Singapore; and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to entering academia he was a legal practitioner, having qualified to the bar in Italy.
His research interests embrace two main strands. Firstly, the broad field of financial regulation and in particular the regulation and practice of capital markets. Secondly, the intersection between corporate law and governance. He has published widely in the above areas. His work on securitisation and capital markets has been cited by the EU Parliament, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg (twice) and S&P Global Markets. His works on the EU Capital Markets Union and on the attendant Securitisation Regulation have informed policy-making exercises, among which, Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI), Politico.
He is the director of two LLM courses at Manchester, one focused on the law and practice of securities markets, and another on the regulation of international finance.
At Manchester, Vincenzo has been the co-director of the Manchester Centre for Law and Business, PGR director, and is currently the LLM director. He is also co-editor in chief of Law and Financial Markets Review.
His research can be accessed on his SSRN author page.
CHAIR
Professor Zhang Wei
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law
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