Dr. Vincenzo Bavoso

Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at The University of Manchester;
Co-director Manchester Centre for Law and Business

Dr. Vincenzo Bavaso is currently a Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at The University of Manchester. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral research associate in the “Tipping Points Project”, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, between June 2013 and its termination in June 2015, at Durham University (Law School and Institute of Hazard Risk and Resilience). He worked on Work Package Two of the Project, focusing on multidisciplinary research on the global financial crisis in the banking sector.

Previously (2011 – 2013), he was a Lecturer in Law at Kingston University where he taught in the areas of company, commercial and financial law. In 2012, he was awarded a PhD in Corporate and Financial Law from the University of Manchester, where he also taught company law as an associate lecturer for a semester. Between March and September 2013, he was involved in the review of the OECD finance instruments, a project commissioned to the University of Edinburgh.

He held visiting posts at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; China-EU School of Law, Beijing University of Political Science and Law; and at the University of Mauritius.

Prior to his move to academia, he was a practising lawyer in Italy and then a legal counsel in Monaco and in the UK. His main research interests lie in the areas of Structured Finance and Corporate Governance.