The book Corporate Finance, Theory and European Practice, the website www.vernimmen.com and the Vernimmen.com newsletter are all written or were created by a team of four friends who have the rare distinction of being both investment bankers/corporate financiers and academics.

Pascal Quiry (45) is adjunct finance professor in the leading French business school HEC Paris, and a managing director at BNP Paribas Corporate Finance specialising in M&A transactions, currently head of the European execution teams.

Maurizio Dallocchio (48) is a former dean of the leading Italian business school Bocconi (Milan) where he teaches finance as Lehman Brothers professor of Corporate Finance. He is also a board member of several listed and unlisted companies and is one of the most distinguished Italian authorities on finance.

Yann Le Fur (35) is a corporate finance teacher at HEC Paris business school and an investment banker with Mediobanca in Paris after several years with Schroders and Citigroup.

Antonio Salvi (37) is Assistant Professor of Finance at Bocconi and at the EM Lyon. His areas of research cover cost of capital, structure of debt finance and corporate governance.

Pierre Vernimmen, who died in 1996, was both an M&A dealmarker (he advised Louis Vuitton on its merger with Moët Henessy to create LVMH, the world luxury goods leader) and a finance teacher at HEC Paris. His book, Finance d'Entreprise, was and still is the top selling financial textbook in French speaking countries and is the forebear of Corporate Finance, Theory and European Practice.