Expert | Senior Specialist
Vincenzo Bavoso is a Professor of Commercial Law in the Law School, University of Manchester. Before taking up this post, he was a research associate in the Tipping Points project at Durham University, a multidisciplinary project funded by the Leverhulme Trust where he focused on the global financial crisis in the banking sector. Before then, he held academic appointments at Kingston University, London, and at the University of Manchester, where he also completed his PhD. He held visiting appointments, among others, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London; the China-EU School of Law, at the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing; the National University of Singapore; the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Singapore Management University; the University of Cape Town. Prior to entering academia he was a legal practitioner, having qualified to the bar in Italy.
His research interests embrace two main strands. Firstly, the broad field of financial regulation and in particular the regulation and practice of capital markets. Secondly, the intersection between corporate law and governance. He has published widely in the above areas. His work on securitization and capital markets has been cited by the EU Parliament, the House of Lords, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg (twice) and S&P Global Markets. His works on the EU Capital Markets Union and on the attendant Securitisation Regulation have informed policy-making exercises, among which, Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI), Politico. In 2025 he participated in a project commissioned by the International Law Institute (ILI), focused on the current state of play, and potential development of structured finance in Ghana and Colombia.
He is co-editor in chief of Law and Financial Markets Review.
His research can be accessed on his SSRN author page.
