The Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations and the Van Berkom Endowed Chair in Small Cap Equities are pleased to announce the upcoming visit of Clifford Holderness.

Holderness is professor of Finance at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and Visiting Professor of Finance at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

He will give a lecture entitled, Do Differences in Legal Protections Explain Differences in Ownership Concentration?

When: Friday, October 2, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
Where: MB 6-240, 1450 Guy St, (Corner of Guy and De Maisonneuve, 6th Floor)

Coffee and refreshments will be served.

Professor Holderness will be available to meet students and interested faculty on Friday, October 2, from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. in MB 11-369.

Holderness is an internationally acclaimed scholar corporate governance and corporate finance. He has written extensively on such topics as the pricing of large blocks of stock, the role of large shareholders in public corporations around the world, and the protection of minority shareholders from oppression by large shareholders.

For further details, please contact Dr. Lorne N. Switzer, Associate Dean, Research, Van Berkom Endowed Chair Small-Cap Equities, and Associate Director, Institute for Governance in Private and Public Organizations, on 514-848-2424, ext. 2960, or email switz@jmsb.concordia.ca.

Posted on September 15, 2009