Jennifer Payne
Professor of Corporate Finance Law
Jennifer Payne is Professor of Corporate Finance Law and a fellow and tutor at Merton College, Oxford. She joined the faculty in October 1998, as the Travers Smith lecturer in Corporate Finance Law. She was formerly a student at Jesus College, Cambridge, a solicitor with Herbert Smith, and then a lecturer at Robinson College, Cambridge. She teaches courses on company law, corporate finance law, corporate insolvency law and principles of financial regulation. She writes widely in the field of corporate law in leading journals and edited collections. Her recent publications include Corporate Finance Law: Principles and Policy (Hart, 2011, with Louise Gullifer); Intermediated Securities: Legal Problems and Practical Issues (Hart, 2010) (with Louise Gullifer); and Rationality in Company Law: Essays in honour of DD Prentice (Hart, 2009) (with John Armour). She is a contributor to Palmer's Company Law and an editor of the Journal of Corporate Law Studies.
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J Payne, 'Clean Hands in Derivative Actions' (2002) 61 (1) Cambridge Law Journal 76
J Payne and Joshua Getzler (eds), Company Charges: Spectrum and Beyond (OUP 2006)
J Payne, 'Company contracts and conundrums' (2004) European Company and Financial Law Review 235
J Payne, 'Company Contracts and Director's Authority' [2010] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 187 [Case Note]
J Payne and Dan Prentice, 'Company contracts and vitiating factors: developments in the law on directors' authority' [2005] LMCLQ 447
J Payne, 'Consent' in P Birks and A Pretto (eds), Breach of Trust (Hart Publishing 2002)
J Payne and Louise Gullifer, Corporate Finance Law: Principles and Policy (Hart Publishing 2011)
J Payne and Prof D Prentice, 'Director's Fiduciary Duties' (2006) 122 LQR 558 [Case Note]
J Payne, 'Intermediated Securities and the Right to Vote in the UK' in Louise Gullifer and Jennifer Payne (eds), Intermediated Securities: Legal Problems and Practical Issues (Hart Publishing 2010)
J Payne and Louise Gullifer (eds), Intermediated Securities: Legal problems and practical issues (Hart Publishing 2010) [...]
Globally, there has been a shift from securities being held directly by an investor, to a situation in which many securities are held via an intermediary. The existence of one or more intermediaries between the investor and the issuer has a potentially significant impact on the rights of the investor, the role and obligations of the issuer, and on the position and responsibilities of the intermediary. However, different jurisdictions have dealt with the issues arising from intermediation in a variety of ways. In the UK, for example, the concept of a trust is used to explain the different rights and obligations which arise in this scenario, whereas in the US the issues have been addressed by legislation, in the form of UCC Article 8. This variety is problematic, given that it is possible for an investor to hold securities in a number of different jurisdictions. A new UNIDROIT Convention on the issue of Intermediated Securities, the Geneva Securities Convention 2009, aims to create a common framework for dealing with these issues. This collection of essays explores the issues that arise when securities are held via an intermediary, and in particular assesses the solutions put forward by the new Convention on this issue.
ISBN: 978-1-84946-013-2
J Payne, 'Legal capital and creditor protection in UK private companies' (2008) 5 European Company Law 220
J Payne, 'Legal Capital in the UK following the Companies Act 2006' in J Armour and J Payne (eds), Rationality in Company Law: Essays in Honour of DD Prentice (Hart publishing 2009)
J Payne, 'Minority Shareholders Protection in Takeovers: A UK perspective' (2011) 8 European Company and Financial Law Review 145
J Payne and others, Palmer's Company Law Annotated Guide to the Companies Act 2006 (Sweet & Maxwell 2007)
J Payne and others, Palmer's Company Law Annotated Guide to the Companies Act 2006 (2nd edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2009)
J Payne, 'Private Equity and its Regulation in Europe' (2011) 12 European Business Organization Law Review 559
J Payne and J Armour (eds), Rationality in Company Law: Essays in Honour of DD Prentice (Hart publishing 2009)
J Payne, 'Recipient Liability for Unlawful Dividends' [2007] LMCLQ 7
J Payne, 'Schemes of Arrangement, Takeovers and Minority Shareholder Protection' (2011) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 67
J Payne, 'Sections 459-461 Companies Act 1985: The Future of Shareholder Protection' (2005) 64(3) Cambridge law Journal 647
J Payne, 'Shareholders' Remedies Reassessed' (2004) 67 Modern Law Review 500 [Case Note]
J Payne (ed), Takeovers in English and German Law (Hart publishing 2002)
J Payne and Louise Gullifer, 'The characterization of fixed and floating charges' in J Getzler and J Payne (eds), Company Charges: Spectrum and Beyond (OUP 2006)
J Payne and Prof D Prentice, 'The Corporate Opportunity Doctrine' (2004) 120 LQR 198 [Case Note]
J Payne, 'The Regulation of Short Selling and its reform in Europe' (2012) European Business Organization Law Review (forthcoming)
J Payne, 'The Role of European Regulation and Model Acts in Company Law' in Ulf Bernitz and Wolf-Georg Ringe (eds), European Company Law and Economic Protectionism (OUP 2010)
J Payne, 'The Way Forward in European Securities Regulation; Regulatory competition or mandatory regulation?' in Steve Weatherill (ed), Better Regulation (Hart Publishing 2007)
J Payne, 'Unjust enrichment, trusts and recipient liability for unlawful dividends' (2003) 119(Oct) Law Quarterly Review 583
Interests
Teaching: Company Law; Corporate Finance; Trusts; Corporate Insolvency Law; Comparative and European Corporate Law; Law and Finance; Principles of Financial Regulation
Research: Company Law, Corporate Finance, Corporate Insolvency, Financial Regulation
