Simone M. Sepe

Simone M. Sepe is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he also holds the Honorable Frank Iacobucci Chair in Capital Markets Regulation and holds a non-budgetary cross-appointment at the Rotman School of Management.  His expertise includes business organizations, corporate finance, contract theory, law and economics, empirical methods, and law and philosophy. Professor Sepe holds doctoral degrees in law from Yale Law School and in economics from the Toulouse School of Economics. He has taught at several law schools, including the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Arizona, where he held the Chester H. Smith Professorship of Law and Finance. He is a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona. Additionally, he is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel. Before his academic career, Professor Sepe practiced banking law and structured finance at Clifford Chance in London and worked as an investment banker at Fortress Investment Group in London and New York.