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Finance Panel
David J. Brophy
Director of the Office for the Study of Private Equity Finance
Associate Professor of Finance, Ross School of Business University of Michigan
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Professor David J. Brophy is a member of the Finance Faculty at the University of Michigan School of Business Administration where he teaches courses in venture capital and private equity finance. He is Director of the Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance and a member of the executive committee for the Zell-Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies (ZLI).
He has published extensive research on venture capital and private equity finance and has twice won the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies Research Award. He is the author of a book entitled Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, and has published a large number of research papers in this and other aspects of finance. He is a founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of Business Venturing, The Journal of Private Equity Finance, and the International Venture Capital Journal.
He has been a director of several public companies and is a director and advisor to a number of banks, money market funds, and financial services firms including Compass Technology Partners (Palo Alto, CA), Munder Capital Management (Birmingham, MI), Nighthawk Radiology Holdings (Coeur D’Alene, ID), Asia Development Capital, Inc., (Birmingham, MI), General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and Wholesale Auto Receivables Corporation. He also is an investor in and an advisor to a number of emerging technology-based firms.
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Nicholas Howson
Assistant Professor of Law (China M&A), University of Michigan
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Nicholas C. Howson, Assistant Professor of Law, earned his J.D. from the Columbia Law School in 1988, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, recipient of the David M. Berger Prize for Public International Law and the Samuel I. Rosenman Prize for Academic Excellence and Citizenship, and served as the head notes editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. Prior to attending Columbia Law School, and after graduating from Williams College in 1983, Howson spent two years (1983-85) as a graduate fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, doing course work and writing on late Qing Dynasty-early modern Chinese literature. After law school, he was awarded a Ford Foundation/CLEEC fellowship to complete research in Qing Dynasty penal law, during which time he was resident at Beijing University (and working with scholars at People’s University and the China University of Politics and Law) for the latter part of 1988.
In late 1988, Howson joined the New York-based international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he was elected partner in the corporate department in 1996. Between 1988 and 2003, Howson worked out of the firm’s New York headquarters, and also had extended postings in the London, Paris, and Beijing offices of Paul, Weiss, finally as the managing partner of the firm’s China Practice based in Beijing, China. In this period, Howson acted for clients in several precedent-setting corporate M&A, investment and securities transactions, including the first Rule 144A offering into the U.S. capital markets (Thorn EMI), the first debt issuance by a Chinese state-owned enterprise (Sinochem), many of East Asia’s largest project finance transactions (power generation, oil and gas exploration, production and development, and transportation), the first private placement of shares to foreign interests in a newly
privatized Chinese company limited by shares (25 percent of Hainan Airlines to George Soros), and the first U.S. registered IPO and listing of shares on the New York Stock Exchange by a PRC-domiciled issuer (Shandong Huaneng Power Development). Howson writes and lectures
widely on Chinese law topics, focusing on Chinese corporate and securities law developments, and
has acted as a consultant to the Ford Foundation, the UNDP and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and various Chinese government ministries and administrative departments. He was Lecturer-on-Law at the Columbia Law School teaching Chinese investment law between 1995 and 2003, and taught Chinese law at the Harvard Law School in 2003-04. In 2004-05, Howson was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Cornell Law School teaching U.S. securities regulation, Chinese investment law, and China’s legal reform and public international law. Howson is a member of the New York Bar and the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a designated foreign arbitrator for the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (“CIETAC”). He is chair of the Asian Affairs Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York for the 2004-07 term, and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Columbia Law School for the term ending 2006.
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Kham (Tom) M. Doan
Managing Partner and founding principal of Horizon Capital Partners
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Kham M. Doan is the Managing Partner and founding principal of Horizon Capital Partners. He is responsible for directing the firm’s advisory and investment strategy and is the firm’s Chief Investment Officer. Prior to founding Horizon, Tom spent three years with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. As Head of IFC’s business development group, Tom gained extensive experience developing and structuring investments in Vietnam, including advising state-owned enterprises, local and foreign owned private enterprises.
Since 1995, Tom has developed a deep and broad network of relationships with the local business community and government officials throughout Vietnam. He has advised the government on privatization policy, development of the stock market, bond issuance and infrastructure investments. Before joining IFC, Tom was an investment banker on Wall Street, with most of that time as Vice President of Banc of America Securities Leveraged Finance Group. With Banc of America, his responsibilities included debt and equity capital-raising, mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts.
Tom received his MBA in Finance from the University of Michigan Business School along with a Masters of Public Policy in International Relations from the University of Michigan School of Public Policy. He is fluent in English and Vietnamese.
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