Vega experts in corporate finance have substantial experience evaluating sources of capital funding and capital structures of corporations. Our experts are academic and industry leaders who blend financial expertise with a knowledge of corporate governance, financial securities and derivatives, government regulatory standards, and private equity. Members of our network also have extensive experience using economic modelling techniques to analyze shareholder value maximization and other financial topics, including damages modelling and value forecasting.

Arturo Bris

Professor of Finance, Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center

  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
Daphne Chen

Managing Director, Vega Economics

  • Corporate Finance
  • Labor & Employment
  • Securities & Finance
  • Consumer Finance
  • Data Science & Statistics
Alex Edmans

Professor of Finance at London Business School and Academic Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance

  • Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
  • Corporate Finance
  • Leadership & Management
  • Corporate Governance
Richard W. George

Principal at Bank Experts Group

  • Real Estate
  • Corporate Finance
  • Securities & Finance
  • Financial Institutions
  • Corporate Governance
Myron S. Glucksman

  • Consumer Finance
  • Corporate Finance
  • Securities & Finance
  • Financial Institutions
Sudip Gupta

Associate Professor of Finance at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

  • Corporate Finance
  • FinTech, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency
  • Valuation
  • Securities & Finance
  • Antitrust & Competition
Paul Habibi

Continuing Lecturer of Finance and Real Estate at UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management and Lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law

  • Real Estate
  • Corporate Finance
  • Valuation
  • Financial Institutions
  • Private Equity
  • Accounting
Paul Hanouna

Associate Professor in the Department of Finance of the Villanova School of Business at Villanova University

  • Real Estate
  • Corporate Finance
  • Intellectual Property
  • Securities & Finance
  • Financial Institutions
  • Data Science & Statistics
  • Antitrust & Competition
Timothy Hurley

Managing Director, Bentley Associates, L.P.

  • Corporate Finance
  • Securities & Finance
  • Valuation
  • Financial Institutions
Richard Libby

Founding Director, Perihelion Capital Advisors

  • Financial Institutions
  • Corporate Finance
  • Data Science & Statistics
Micah Officer

Professor of Finance at Loyola Marymount University

  • Corporate Finance
  • Valuation
  • Private Equity
  • Bankruptcy & Insolvency
  • Corporate Governance
Christopher Palmer

Albert and Jeanne Clear Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Securities & Finance
  • Consumer Finance
  • Financial Institutions
  • Corporate Finance
Jeremy Reifsnyder

Consultant and Expert Witness

  • Corporate Finance
  • Securities & Finance
  • Financial Institutions
Atulya Sarin

Professor of Finance in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University

  • Corporate Finance
  • Securities & Finance
  • FinTech, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency
  • Valuation
  • Financial Institutions
Sorin Sorescu

Professor of Finance and the Foreman R. and Ruby Bennett Chair in Business Administration at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University

  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Institutions
  • Securities & Finance
Gary Strumeyer

Adjunct Professor of Finance/Economics, at LIU Post

  • Corporate Finance
  • Securities & Finance
  • Financial Institutions
  • Corporate Governance
Guhan Subramanian

Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School

  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Institutions
  • Corporate Finance
Alexei Tchistyi

Associate Professor of Finance at Gies College of Business, University of Illinois

  • Corporate Finance
  • Real Estate
James A. Wilcox

Professor of the Graduate School, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

  • Corporate Finance
  • Consumer Finance
  • Financial Institutions
October 25, 2024 | Featured Engagement
Featured Engagement: Analysis of Hostile Takeover, Tender Offer, and Corporate Acquisitions

Tim Hurley, supported by Vega Economics, was retained in a case where Defendant Company allegedly made material and false representations and omission to shareholders while defending against a hostile takeover attempt.

July 11, 2024 | Featured Engagement
Featured Engagement: Analysis of Post-Judgment Interest Rate

Vega Economics was retained by the Office of the New York State Attorney General to support Dr. James Wilcox from UC Berkeley Hass Business School in a high-profile case related to consumer debt judgment in the state of New York.

June 14, 2024 | Featured Expert
Featured Expert: Gary Strumeyer

Our featured expert Gary Strumeyer is a distinguished expert in the field of capital markets. Mr. Strumeyer brings a wealth of knowledge, significant testimony experience, and provides a unique approach to capital markets expert witness services. 

May 13, 2024 | Featured Expert
Featured Expert: Dr. Jim Wilcox

Meet our featured expert Jim Wilcox! Prof. Wilcox is and expert in Federal Reserve policies and interest rates, banks’ lending, consumer attitudes and spending, credit unions, Islamic banking, and nonfinancial corporations’ internal capital markets.

April 12, 2024 | Article
Stock Lending

Check out our latest article that discusses the mechanics of stock loans, the growth of the securities lending market, and regulatory changes aimed at increasing transparency in lending transactions.

February 27, 2024 | Event
39th National Institute on White Collar Crime

We look forward to seeing you at the National Institute on White Collar Crime at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, California March 6-8, 2024!

January 26, 2024 | Featured Engagement
Featured Engagement: Negotiations & Transactions in Licensing Deals

Vega Economics was retained by Arm to support Professor Guhan Subramanian, who provided opinions informed by his expertise in negotiation theory and transactional practice.

January 19, 2024 | Brochure
2023 Year in Review

We had the privilege of supporting numerous exceptional experts from diverse fields in 2023 and were delighted to welcome several new experts into our network. To delve into our achievements over the past year, you can find more details in our 2023 Year in Review brochure.

September 25, 2023 | Featured Engagement
Featured Engagement: Business Negotiations in M&A Transactions

Vega's expert Dr. Guhan Subramanian recently on the standards and practice of business negotiations and addressing potential conflicts related to closing the underlying transaction.

July 24, 2023 | Featured Expert
Featured Expert: Timothy Hurley

Meet our featured expert Timothy Hurley! Mr. Hurley is an investment banker with over 30 years of experience as a senior investment banker at three major firms and two boutique investment banking firms.

September 19, 2022 | Featured Engagement
Featured Engagement: Analysis of the Organization, Structure, Finances, & Operations or a Large Agribusiness

Vega Economics was retained to support Professor Stephen Hamilton of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for his analysis of the organization, structure, finances and operations of a large agribusiness.

December 27, 2021 | News
Poets&Quants has Named Professor Alex Edmans "MBA Professor of the Year"!

Poets&Quants has named Professor Alex Edmans MBA Professor of the Year! He received this award for his pioneering research in corporate social responsibility; for his impact and influence on hundreds of MBA students; and for his exhaustive efforts to disseminate research to not only business practitioners but a much wider audience. 

May 24, 2021 | Featured Expert
Richard George, Principal at Bank Experts Group

Experts testifying in conflict resolution proceedings at the ICSID should ideally be familiar with this forum’s unique rules and procedures. Vega affiliate Richard George has testified as an expert before ICSID on issues concerning generally accepted international banking practices. 

April 23, 2021 | Article
Recent SEC Guidance Classifies Some SPAC Warrants as Liabilities

Recent SEC accounting guidance reclassifying SPAC warrants as liabilities instead of equities has drawn new attention to SPACs. In light of these developments, we discuss SPACs and SPAC warrants.

October 12, 2020 | Article
Trends in the U.S. Corporate Bond Market Since the Financial Crisis

Vega economists discuss long-term trends in the U.S. corporate bond market since the financial crisis and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 17, 2018 | Article
Corporate Income Tax, Legal Form of Organization, and Employment

Dr. Daphne Chen recently published her article "Corporate Income Tax, Legal Form of Organization, and Employment" in the October issue of American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. She examined the impact of a corporate income tax reduction on firms’ decisions regarding capital and employment.

Originally Published November 3, 2020 | Banking
SBA PPP Loan Approval

Proprietary dashboard that allows visitors to visually access the PPP loan data by lender and date of approval, bucketed by loan size.