Pascal Böni

Visiting professor

Biography

Pascal Böni is Associate Professor of Finance at Vlerick Business School and Visiting Professor of Corporate Finance at Ghent University, where he is a member of the Corporate Finance Research Group. He holds a PhD from Tilburg University, an MBA from the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester, New York, an MBA from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and a Master of Business Law from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Finance at the Business School (TIAS) of Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He was the Managing Director of the Tilburg Institute for Private Markets at Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM). His research focuses on financial intermediation in banking and private markets, corporate finance, and has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals. He co-organizes the Annual Private Markets Research Conference in Lausanne and serves on its scientific board.

Pascal has advised boards, investors and entrepreneurs on more than 100 corporate finance and M&A transactions. He is the Chairman of Remaco Group (Nexia International) in Switzerland, serves on several boards of listed and unlisted companies, and is a Harvard- and Oxford-trained negotiator and CEDR-accredited mediator. At Vlerick, he teaches in the Family Office, Investing in Private Equity and Venture Capital & Private Equity programmes.

Research expertise

• Corporate finance

• Banking and financial intermediation

• Private equity and private debt

• Mergers & acquisitions

• Negotiation in finance