Laurence Booth
Dr., Professor of Finance, CIT Chair in Structured Finance, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada.
His major research interests are in corporate finance and the behavior of regulated industries. He has published over fifty articles in academic journals, including the Journal of Finance and the JFQA as well as major textbooks for McGraw Hill, International Business (with Alan Rugman and Don Lecraw) and John Wiley and Sons Introduction to Corporate Finance 2nd edition (with Sean Cleary). Professor Booth is on the editorial board of four academic journals and in 2003 was awarded the Financial Post's Leader in Management Education Award.
At the University of Toronto since 1978 he has taught graduate courses in business finance, international financial management, corporate financing, mergers and acquisitions, financial management and financial theory, as well as short executive programs on the money & foreign exchange markets, business valuation, mergers and acquisitions and financial strategy. His advice is frequently sought by the media and has appeared as an expert financial witness before the Ontario Securities Commission, the National Energy Board, the CRTC as well as most of the major regulatory tribunals in Canada. He has also appeared as an expert financial witness in a variety of civil cases including deficient offering memoranda, insider trading, the value of a guarantee of subsidiary debt and material facts in trading.
