MBA Guest Lecture To Be Simulcast At Dickinson
Samuel C. Thompson Jr., professor of law and director of the UCLA Law Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions, will speak to Smeal College of Business MBA students today during a guest lecture that will be simulcast to students at the Dickinson School of Law. Thompson is on the Penn State campus to participate in the Penn State Forum Lunch program on Wednesday.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (March 14, 2006)—Samuel C. Thompson Jr., professor of law and director of the UCLA Law Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions, will speak to Smeal College of Business MBA students today during a guest lecture that will be simulcast to students at the Dickinson School of Law. Thompson is on the Penn State campus to participate in the Penn State Forum Lunch program on Wednesday.
In the MBA class, Thompson will discuss "The 10 Building Blocks of Mergers and Acquisitions." The class is a one-week immersion course required for second-year MBA students in the Corporate Financial Analysis and Planning Portfolio in the MBA Program. First-year MBA students interested in mergers and acquisitions have also been invited to attend the Thompson lecture.
"This is an excellent opportunity for our MBA students to interact with one of the world's leading legal experts in mergers and acquisitions," says Professor of Finance Chris Muscarella, who teaches the MBA course. "The simulcast of the lecture to Dickinson will foster a valuable discussion thanks to the diverse law and business backgrounds of the students. It's a great example of the partnership between Smeal and Dickinson enriching the education of students at both schools."
The simulcast at Dickinson is open to any student who is interested in mergers and acquisitions.
Thompson was at the University of Miami School of Law from 1994 to 2002, serving for four years as dean of the school before returning to UCLA, where he was a law professor in the early 1990s. Throughout his career, he has been elected teacher of the year three separate times by students at UCLA and Miami.
He has been the partner in charge of the Tax Division of the Chicago-based law firm of Schiff, Hardin and Waite, where he practiced for nine years. In the summer of 2003, he worked with the European Union's Antitrust Merger Taskforce in Brussels, Belgium, where he was a member of several case teams and gave lectures on various aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
From 1966 to 1969, Thompson served in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising to captain and earning the Navy Commendation Medal, with combat V, for service in Vietnam. He received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 and his LL.M. in taxation from New York University in 1973. He received a master's degree in business and applied economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and a bachelor's degree from West Chester University in 1965.
One element of the partnership between Dickinson and Smeal is a joint degree program, which allows students to earn a J.D. from Dickinson and an MBA from Smeal in four years. For more information, visit http://www.dsl.psu.edu/groups/JDMBASmeal.cfm.
