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Professor Samuel C. Thompson Jr.  

Samuel C. Thompson Jr.
Arthur Weiss Distinguished Faculty Scholar
Professor of Law
Director, Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions
E-mail: sct13@psu.edu  
Phone: (814) 865-9029
Principal Office: University Park
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Education:
LL.M., New York University (Taxation)
J.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., University of Pennsylvania (Business and Applied Economics)
B.S., West Chester University 
 


Professor Thompson directs Penn State’s Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions and teaches on the corporate, securities, tax, and antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions as well as international tax, investment banking, taxation of business entities, and economic growth policy. Professor Thompson has been a tax policy advisor, on behalf of the U.S. Treasure Tax Assistance Office, to the South African Ministry of Finance in Pretoria, South Africa.

He has been a consultant on merger and acquisition issues to the Federal Trade Commission and served as a professor in residence at the European Commission’s Antitrust Merger Taskforce in Brussels. He has presented tax policy testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives and has served as the Jacquin D. Bierman Visiting Professor of Taxation at Yale Law School. He is the author of sixteen books and more than seventy-five articles on corporate and international tax, corporate governance, and antitrust law. His teaching interests focus on the corporate, securities, tax, and antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions as well as international tax, investment banking, taxation of business entities, and economic growth policy.  

 


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