Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School, is keynote speaker for MIRSANU DEALMAKERS SUMMIT 2021 on December 10 opening this online event and will participate also in the panel dedicated to international trends that shapes major corporative transactions.
Alex is Academic Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance. Alex graduated from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and trading (New York). After a PhD in Finance from MIT Sloan as a Fulbright Scholar, he joined Wharton in 2007 and was tenured in 2013 shortly before moving to LBS.
Alex’s research interests are in corporate finance, responsible business and behavioural finance. He is Managing Editor of the Review of Finance, the leading academic finance journal in Europe. His research has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, The Economist, and The Times, and he has been interviewed by Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox, ITV, NPR, Reuters, Sky News, and Sky Sports. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, presented to the World Bank Board of Directors as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series, and given the TED talk What to Trust in a Post-Truth World and the TEDx talk The Social Responsibility of Business with a combined 2.3 million views.
Alex serves on the Steering Group of The Purposeful Company, a UK consortium of leaders in responsible business and on Royal London Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. The UK government appointed him (jointly with PwC) to conduct a study on the effect of share buybacks on executive pay and investment. Alex also serves as Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, giving a four-year programme of lectures to the public. His 2020/21 lecture series is on The Psychology of Finance and his prior series were on Business Skills for the 21st Century and How Business Can Better Serve Society. His book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was named to the Financial Times Business Books of the Year for 2020.
At Wharton, Alex won 14 teaching awards in six years. At LBS, he won Best Teacher awards for both the MBA and Masters in Financial Analysis programmes and the Excellence in Teaching award for best professor across all programmes. He has been named to Poets and Quants Best 40 Professors Under 40 and Thinkers50 Radar.
On December 10, 2021, MIRSANU.RO transaction journal is hosting MIRSANU DEALMAKERS SUMMIT 2021, an event dedicated to the community of corporate transactions – mergers & acquisitions (M&A), financing, capital market transactions and real estate transactions.
The agenda of the event will be as follows:
09:50 – 10:00 Introduction by the event moderator
10.00 – 10.10 Keynote speaker
10.10 – 11.00 Panel on international macro trends and local trends that will shape the major corporate deals
11.00 – 11.50 Panel on the mergers & acquisitions (M&A) market
11.50 – 12.10 Study Case
12.10 – 13.00 Panel on corporate financing
13.00 – 13.20 Developments on the real estate market
13.20 – 14.20 Break
14.20 – 15.10 Roundtable panel on private equity & venture capital
15.10 – 15.30 Q&A ESG
15.30 – 16.20 Deals on the capital markets
16.20 – 16.30 Opportunities room
16.30 – 17.20 Debate: Buyers v Sellers
17.20 – 17.30 Event conclusions
The event’s partners are Immofinanz, Dentons, Bucharest Stock Exchange, ING Bank Romania, Prefera Foods, Alro, Mazars, Schoenherr and DLA Piper Romania.
If you are interested in attending this event, please contact us at: office@mirsanu.ro.
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MIRSANU.RO is the first Romanian media product consisting of news, analyses, interviews and opinions exclusively addressing transactions and industry professionals. We provide information on three main areas – mergers & acquisitions (M&A), financing, and capital market transactions.
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