Structured Finance

Stefano Caselli is Vice Rector for International Affairs at Bocconi University in Italy, where he is Full Professor of Banking and Finance in the Department of Finance and a member of the Board of Directors of SDA Bocconi School of Management. He conducts research at both the domestic and the international level and is the author of a number of publications on private equity, SMEs and family business financing, corporate finance, corporate banking and banking strategy. He is a member of the scientific committees of CER, ECMI and EVCA. He also serves as an independent director on the boards of several corporations and financial institutions. Stefano Gatti is Director of the full-time MBA at SDA Bocconi School of Management in Italy. His main area of research is investment banking, and he has published in this area in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Financial Management and the Journal of Banking and Finance. He has acted as a consultant to financial and non-financial institutions, the Italian Ministry of the Economy, the FSB, the Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD. He is financial advisor to the pension fund of the health care professions in Italy.

• 1 Characteristics and common features of structured finance transactions.- 2 The Alchemy of securitization. Evolution and perspectives.- 3 Project Finance.- 4 Structured leasing transactions.- 5 Leveraged acquisitions: Technical and financial issues.- 6 Issues and trends in project finance for public infrastructure.- 7 Securitisation of non-performing loans.