California Corporate Finance Conference

Since 2007, Loyola Marymount University has hosted the California Corporate Finance Conference on its beautiful campus in Los Angeles. The conference is open to junior faculty at Southern California universities with a primary research focus in corporate finance. The conference is organized by LMU finance faculty Thomas Covington and Heritage Oyelade.

The 20th California Corporate Finance Conference will be held on Saturday, April 3, 2027.

We are excited to welcome Heitor Almeida from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as our distinguished speaker.

A call for papers will be announced in January 2027. For more information, contact Thomas Covington at thomas.covington@lmu.edu or Heritage Oyelade at heritage.oyelade@lmu.edu

Loyola Marymount University
Hilton Center for Business
1 LMU Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90045

Directions and Maps

*We recommend conference attendees park in the Drollinger Parking Plaza. Visitors to LMU do NOT pay for parking on the weekends.