The book Corporate Finance, Theory and Practice, the website www.vernimmen.com and the Vernimmen.com newsletter are all written or were created by a team of four friends who have the rare distinction of being both investment bankers/corporate financiers and academics.

Pascal Quiry is a Professor of Finance at the leading European business school HEC Paris, and a Managing Director in the Corporate Finance arm of BNP Paribas, specialising in M&A.

Maurizio Dallocchio is Bocconi University Professor of Corporate Finance, and Past Dean of SDA Bocconi, the leading Italian business school (Milan). He is also a board member of several international and Italian institutions and is one of the most distinguished Italian authorities on finance.

Yann Le Fur is Adjunct Finance Professor at HEC Paris business school and an investment banker with Mediobanca in Paris after several years with Schroders and Citi.

Antonio Salvi is Caisse d'Epargne Rhone Alpes Professor of SME Finance at EM Lyon Business School. He also teaches Corporate Finance and M&A at Bocconi University.

Pierre Vernimmen, who died in 1996, was both an M&A dealmaker (he advised Louis Vuitton on its merger with Moët Hennessy to create LVMH, the world luxury goods leader) and a finance teacher at HEC Paris. His book, Finance d'Entreprise, is the top selling financial textbook in French speaking countries and the forebear of Corporate Finance, Theory and Practice.