Law and Finance Senior Practitioner Lectures
About the Group
The Law and Finance Senior Practitioner Lectures provide a forum for interaction between Faculty, students and distinguished practitioners, policymakers and business leaders working at the intersection of law and finance. Lectures are given on a wide variety of subjects including, amongst many others, financial markets and regulation, insolvency and debt restructuring and financial law and development.
Recent speakers have included Dr Frederique Dahan (The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development); Jeffrey Golden (Allen & Overy and the LSE), Hector Sants (FSA) and Chris Hale (Travers Smith).
Faculty and students are welcome to attend the seminars. The typical format is for 40 minutes' presentation by the speaker followed by 40-50 minutes' discussion of the issues raised.
Convenor: Anne Currie
Senior member: Dan Awrey
Previous Group Events
February 2013
Wednesday 20 February 2013
- Tranche Warfare in Debt Restructurings: Lessons Learnt from the Stabilus Case
- Speaker: Simon Johnson, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
January 2013
Wednesday 23 January
- The UK Approach to Resolution of Failed Banks – Experience and Issues
- Speaker: Peter Brierley, Head of Policy, Special Resolution Unit and Adviser, Financial Stability, Bank of England
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
November 2012
Wednesday 7 November 2012
- A Practical Guide to Credit Default Swaps
- Speaker: Antonin Besse, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
October 2012
Wednesday 24 October
- Commerical Law Reform for Economic Development
- Speaker: Mahesh Uttamchandani and Antonia Menezes, World Bank Group
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
Wednesday 17 October
- Recent Trends in Public M&A: the US Perspective
- Speaker: Stephen Fraidin, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
February 2012
Wednesday 22 February
- Strengthening the corporate governance of financial institutions: a hopeless but necessary task?
- Speaker: Philip Heyes, Ex-partner Linklaters, director Bank Zenit
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
Wednesday 8 February
- Corporate Governance - why is it so fashionable and will it solve everything?
- Speaker: Frances LeGrys, Hogan Lovells International
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
November 2011
Wednesday 30 November 2011
- Recent Trends in Public M&A: the US Perspective
- Postponed
Speaker: Stephen Fraidin, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
October 2011
Wednesday 26 October
- One Step Ahead - Hedge funds and private equity funds after the Global Financial Crisis
- Speaker: Timothy Spangler, Kaye Scholer LLP
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
May 2011
Wednesday 18 May
- Why Contracts Matter
- Speaker: Stephen Gillespie, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
Said Business School Seminar Room A at 17:30
March 2011
Wednesday 9 March
- The Future of Banking
- Speaker: Andrew Nevin, Director, Strategy , PricewaterhouseCoopers
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room C at 17:00
Tuesday 1 March
- On the Right Track? Global regulatory and supervisory responses to the financial crisis
- Speaker: David Wright, Deputy Director General, DG Markt, European Commission
Said Business School Lecture Theatre 5 at 17:30
February 2011
Wednesday 16 February
- Regulatory Reform After the Financial Crisis: Twin Peaks Revisited
- Speaker: Dr. Michael W. Taylor, Advisor to the Governor, Central Bank of Bahrain
Said Business School Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre at 17:30
Wednesday 9 February
- Regulatory Change
- Speaker: Andrew Whittaker, General Counsel, Financial Services Authority
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room C at 17:30
Wednesday 2 February
- Current Developments in Corporate Governance
- Speaker: Frances Le Grys, Hogan Lovells International LLP
Said Business School Seminar Room A at 17:30
November 2010
Wednesday 17 November 2010
- Reflections on the Financial Crisis
- Speaker: Edward J. Kelly, Vice Chairman, Citigroup, Inc.
Said Business School Edmund Safra lecture Theatre at 17:30
Wednesday 3 November
- Retail Banking Through Recent Economic and Regulatory Cycles
- Speaker: Eric Leenders, Executive Director, British Bankers Association
Said Business School Seminar Room A at 17:30
October 2010
Wednesday 27 October
- Proposed Changes to the Takeover Code Post Cadbury
- Speaker: William Charnley, Mayer Brown International LLP
Said Business School Lecture Theatre 5 at 17:30
Monday 11 October
- Insolvency and Secured Transactions: Law Reform for Economic Development
- Speaker: Mahesh Uttamchandani, Global Product Leader, Insolvency, World Bank
Said Business School Seminar Room A at 17:30
June 2010
Wednesday 2 June
- The Bribery Act 2010: Philosophy, Law & Policy
- Speaker: Jeremy Horder, Oxford University/Law Commission of England and Wales
Oxford Law Board Room at 17:00
May 2010
Tuesday 18 May
- The Future of Financial Regulation: The Role of Courts
- Speaker: Jeffrey Golden, London School of Economics and Political Science/Allen & Overy LLP
Oxford Law Board Room at 17:00
February 2010
Thursday 25 February
- "Secured Transactions and Enforcement in Transition Economies"
- Speaker: Frederique Dahan, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Merton College Breakfast Room at 12:30
October 2009
Thursday 22 October 2009
- "Legal Risks Triggered by the Global Financial Crisis"
- Speaker: Roger McCormick, London School of Economics and Political Science
Merton College Breakfast Room at 1230
May 2009
Thursday 28 May
- Debt Restructuring in French Bankruptcy Law: The risks for creditors created by the French Safeguard Procedure (procedure de sauvegarde) after the 18 December 2008 Reform
- Speaker: Professor Francois-Xavier Lucas , l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
Thursday 21 May
- Choice of Law of Takeover Regulation
- Speaker: Prof. Federico Mucciarelli, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 1
Thursday 14 May
- Property investment advice law: Current developments in Australia
- Speaker: Ms. Lang Thai, School of Law, Deakin University, Australia
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
February 2009
Thursday 19 February
- IMF reforms and its measures against the subprime financial crisis
- Speaker: Mr Sean Hagan, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 1
Thursday 12 February
- Comparative research on the assignment of receivables - notification, publication or registration?
- Speaker: JON, Woo-Jung , Oxford University, DPhil student
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 1:00
December 2008
Thursday 4 December 2008
- The Regulation of Conflicts of Interest
- Speaker: Dr Christoph Kumpan, Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and Private International Law, Hamburg
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
November 2008
Thursday 27 November
- This lecture has been cancelled
- Cancelled
Speaker: Professor Gabriel Gómez Giglio - MEETING CANCELLED
Oxford Law Faculty
Thursday 6 November
- Companies Freedom of Establishment
- Speaker: Professor Federico M. Mucciarelli , University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
October 2008
Friday 31 October
- Auditors, Corrupt Clients, and Company Law Theory
- Speaker: Prof. Peter Watts , University of Auckland
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
Thursday 16 October
- Current developments in Austrian Corporate Governance
- Speaker: Dr Manfred Gruenanger, Legal Policy Department of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
May 2008
Thursday 29 May
- The Introduction of the Special Resolution Regime in the UK
- Speaker: Mr Thomas Huertas, Financial Services Authority (Director, Banking Sector)
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 10:30 AM
Thursday 22 May
- Testing the European Prudential Conditions for Banking Mergers in the Light of Most Favoured Nation in the GATS
- Speaker: Mr. Bart De Meester , Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
Thursday 15 May
- The Global Markets' Crisis and International Financial Regulation
- Speaker: Dr Emilios Avgouleas, University of Manchester, School of Law
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
March 2008
Thursday 6 March
- Form and Substance in Company Law
- Speaker: Dr John Vella, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
February 2008
Thursday 28 February
- German co-determination and corporate governance issues
- Speaker: Dr. Rainer Kulms, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
Thursday 14 February
- Derivative Actions and Corporate Governance
- Speaker: Dr. Arad Reisberg, University College London
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
January 2008
Thursday 31 January
- Creditor Protection in European Company Law
- Speaker: Dr Alexander Schall , Hamburg University
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
Thursday 24 January
- The European Company as the solution to the free movement of companies problem?
- Speaker: Dr Wolf-Georg Ringe, University of Oxford, Institute of European and Comparative Law
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
November 2007
Thursday 29 November 2007
- Outside Director Liability in Transatlantic Perspective
- Speaker: Dr Markus Roth, Max Planck Institute in Hamburg
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
Thursday 22 November
- Directors' Duties and the Optimal Timing of Insolvency
- Speaker: Professor Lorenzo Stanghellini , University of Florence, Italy
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
Thursday 15 November
- Contractual Prohibition on the Assignment and Priority Rules
- Speaker: JON Woo-Jung , University of Oxford (research student)
Oxford Law Faculty
Thursday 1 November
- Enforcement of Corporate and Securities Law: An Empirical Comparison of the US and UK
- Speaker: Professor John Armour, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
October 2007
Thursday 25 October
- Security over Intellectual Property and IP Secured Transaction
- Speaker: Ms Angie Raymond , Queen Mary, University of London
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
May 2007
Friday 11 May
- Recent FSA regulatory changes/amendments and their impact
- Speaker: Mr Hector Sants, Managing Director, Wholesale and Institutional Mkts, FSA
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:20
Thursday 10 May
- New dimensions in international commercial law: the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment
- Speaker: Prof Sir Roy Goode, Emeritus Professor of Law at Oxford University
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:20
April 2007
Thursday 26 April
- Financial Crime
- Speaker: Anand Doobay , Peters and Peters
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:25
Wednesday 25 April
- Commercial Mediation
- Speaker: Robert M. Smith, CEDR
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board Room at 11:30
March 2007
Friday 9 March
- The Case of Vietnam
- Speaker: Mr Charles Marquand, Barrister at 4 Stone Building
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
Tuesday 6 March
- Public Enforcement of Securities Law: Preliminary Evidence
- Speaker: Professor Howell E. Jackson, Harvard Law School
Oxford Law Faculty Lecture Room 2 at 16:00
Thursday 1 March
- Structure Finance
- Speaker: Stuart Axford, Structered Finance Group at Freshfields
Oxford Law Faculty at 12:20
February 2007
Thursday 22 February
- Private Equity
- Speaker: Tim Jenkinson, Said Business School
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:20
Thursday 15 February
- financial regulation
- Speaker: Camille Stoll- Davey, Faculty of Law, DPhil student
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
January 2007
Thursday 25 January
- A Comparative Analysis of the Anti-assignment Override
- Speaker: Woo-Jung Jon , Faculty of Law, MSt student
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:15
Thursday 18 January
- Islamic Financing
- Speaker: Ms. Sahar Kianfar, Allen & Overy
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:15
November 2006
Thursday 30 November 2006
- "Insolvency : A Global perspective"
- Speaker: Professor Philip Wood, Allen& Overy
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
Tuesday 28 November
- Global Regulatory Networks: Taxation and Finance
- Cancelled
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 17:30
Tuesday 21 November
- Global Regulatory Networks: Taxation and Finance
- Speaker: Prof Sol Picciotto, University of Lancaster
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 17:30
June 2006
Thursday 8 June
- Set-Off and Netting in the Financial Markets
- Speaker: Jeffrey Golden, Allen & Overy LLP
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, St. Cross Building at 12:30
April 2006
Thursday 20 April
- U.S. Perspectives on the Convergence of International Securities Regulation and the Global Competition for Foreign Listings
- Speaker: Eric Sibbitt, O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, St. Cross Building at 12:30
March 2006
Wednesday 8 March
- Politics and the Creation of a European SEC: The Optimal UK Strategy - Constructive Inconsistency
- Speaker: Dr. Ruben Lee, Oxford Finance Group
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, St Cross Building at 12:30
February 2006
Thursday 23 February
- Secured Credit Legal Issues in Transition Economies
- Speaker: Frederique Dahan and John Simpson, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, St Cross Building at 12:30
Thursday 16 February
- Set-off and Close-out Netting: Compared and Contrasted
- Cancelled
Speaker: Ed Murray, Partner, Allen & Overy LLP
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, St Cross Building at 12:30
November 2005
Thursday 24 November 2005
- "The Hedge Fund Challenge as a Test Case for EC Securities Regulation"
- Speaker: Professor Niamh Moloney, Professor of Capital Markets, School of Law, University of Nottingham
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, St Cross Building at 12:30
Thursday 17 November
- "Corporate Mobility Comes To Europe - The Evidence"
- Speaker: Dr Hannes Wagner , Oxford University Said Business School
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, St Cross Building at 12:30
Thursday 3 November
- Financial Law Discussion Group- Student & Faculty Social Event
- Oxford Law Faculty St Cross Building Senior Common Room at 18:15
May 2005
Thursday 12 May until 0 2003
- Legal Risk I N the Financial Markets
- Speaker: Prof Roger McCormick, Visiting Professor at the LSE and Co-Chairman IBA Legal Risk Working Party
Oxford Senior Common Room, St Cross Building at 12:00
Friday 6 May until 0 2003
- Global Convergences in Investment Law
- Speaker: Mr Barry Leon, Snr Partner, TORYS , Canada
Merton College Breakfast Room at 12:30
Thursday 5 May until 0 2003
- City Regulation
- Speaker: Mr Hector Sants, Managing Director, Wholesale and Institutional Markets, FSA
Oxford Senior Common Room, St Cross Building at 12:00
March 2005
Thursday 3 March
- REGULATORY & HEDGE FUND INDUSTRY - An ongoing dialogue
- Speaker: Dan Waters, Director, Retail Policy and Asset Management, FSA
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:00
February 2005
Thursday 10 February
- The Role of Law in Markets
- Speaker: Professor Marcel Fafchamps, Economics Dept, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, St Cross Building at 12:30
January 2005
Thursday 27 January
- Current Issues in Financial Regulation
- Speaker: Andrew Whittaker, General Counsel, Financial Services Authority (FSA)
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, St Cross Building at 12:30
December 2004
Wednesday 1 December 2004
- Sovereign Debt restructuring
- Speaker: Mr Lee Buchheit
, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Oxford Law Faculty (New College) at 5:30
November 2004
Thursday 25 November
- Collateral Law and Global Standard Documentation
- Speaker: Dr Peter Werner and Ed Murray, Dr Werner - Senior Policy Director, International Swap and Derivative Association; Ed Murray - ISDA Chairman of Collateral Law Reform Group and Partner at Allen & Overy LLP
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, St Cross Building at 12:30
Thursday 11 November
- Adventures In Risk Finance: A Contemporary Overview
- Speaker: David Doble, Partner at Allen & Overy (International Capital Markets Dept)
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, St Cross Building at 12:30
October 2004
Thursday 21 October
- The Evolution of Law and Finance in Germany and the UK
- Speaker: Prof Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saїd Business School and Director of the Oxford Financial Research Centre
Oxford Law Faculty SEMINAR ROOM C at 12:30 for 1:00
June 2004
Thursday 3 June
- Trends In World Regulation In Financial Services
- Speaker: Professor Philip R Wood, Oxford Law Faculty
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:15 - 13:45
