Mathieu Luypaert

Associate Professor at Vlerick Business School Executive Education

Schools

Vlerick Business School Executive Education

Expertise

Biography

Mathieu shows how insights into financial figures and decisions can lead to value creation.Mathieu Luypaert has done extensive research in the domain of corporate finance, specialising in value creation through mergers and acquisitions. He studies how the stock price of merging companies reacts upon the announcement of such a deal and how potential synergies are being realised. He teaches courses on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions in several Masters, MBA and executive programmes at Vlerick. Mathieu has also been active internationally. He has stayed as a Visiting Professor at Insead and has given courses as a guest lecturer in Dubai (EHSAL), Ireland (Waterford Institute of Technology) and Lyon (Institut Paul Bocuse).

Vlerick Business School Executive Education

Mathieu Luypaert’s field is corporate finance – and he specialises in mergers and acquisitions. More specifically, he studies M&A motives, underlying financial decisions, the impact of industry structures, information asymmetry, stock price effects and long-term synergy realisation following an M&A. He has presented his work at several international conferences and his research has been published in leading academic journals.

At Vlerick, Mathieu teaches corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions on several Masters, MBA and executive programmes – as well as heading our Centre for Mergers, Acquisitions and Buyouts. He also has international experience, teaching at institutions in China, Dubai, Ireland and France.

Work experience

PMV - Doe- en Durfbedrijf Member Investment Committee PMV Corporate loans
Vlerick Business School Professor Corporate Finance
Insead Visiting Professor
HUB-EHSAL Professor Financieel Beleid
KU Leuven Researcher
Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel Assistant/PhD-researcher

Education

KU Leuven Doctor in Applied Economics
Europese Hogeschool Brussel
Sint-Pieterscollege, Jette