Prof. David Carl Smith

Dr. David C. Smith is the Virginia Bankers Association Professor of Commerce at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. His areas of expertise include corporate valuation, restructuring and bankruptcy, leveraged finance and distressed investing. Dr. Smith has presented his research at universities and conferences around the world and published in leading academic journals. He also has worked as a testifying finance expert on cases related to company valuation, bankruptcy, corporate debt instruments, securities violations, pension funding and distressed-debt trading. Dr. Smith currently teaches classes incorporate finance and corporate restructuring and distressed-debt investing. He has also taught courses on valuation and fixed income to undergraduates and M.B.A. students. Prior to joining the University ofVirginia, Dr. Smith was an economist in the International Finance Division of the Federal Reserve Board and an assistant professor at the Norwegian Business School. He received his Ph.D. in finance from theKelley School of Business at Indiana University