
Contact
- +44 (0)20 7040 5060
- emmanuel.pezier@cass.city.ac.uk
Postal address
106 Bunhill Row
London
EC1Y 8TZ
United Kingdom
About
Overview
Manu joined Cass in 2016 after a 25-year career in investment banking. He had previously worked at Goldman Sachs, HSBC and JP Morgan in New York and London in a variety of roles including head of equity syndicate, head of equity-linked, head of equity capital markets and latterly in Financial Sponsor/Hedge Fund coverage and equity advisory. His areas of expertise include IPOs, follow-ons, rights issues, blocks, SPACs, permanent capital vehicles, convertibles, equity derivatives, PIPES and capital introductions. He gained a B.A. (First Class) from Magdalen College, Oxford where he was a scholar in Philosophy & Modern Languages and a member of university rugby and rowing squads, before completing military service at the Ecole de l'Air in Salon-de-Provence. He lives in Sussex with his wife and four children.
Research
Title of thesis: Independent Advisers, Monitoring and the Underpricing of IPOs
Sep 2017 – Sep 2018
Summary of research
With data on European IPOs from 2010 to July 2017, we examine the links between underpricing and adviser monitoring intensity.
Title of thesis: UK small-cap activism: Who dares wins?
Sep 2017 – Sep 2019
Summary of research
With private data, we perform a forensic study of a UK activist fund providing liquidity to institutions in UK small-cap stocks.