Oxford Business Law Blog

On April 21st, the European Commission published yet another package of corporate sustainability regulation proposals. Possibly the most awaited element of this release concerns the review of the EU’...

Across the world, the focus on effective risk management has increased over the past two decades as major corporations have experienced risk management failures due to a variety of factors, including...

When one thinks about financial systems, what comes to mind? Perhaps financial institutions like banks, central banks, insurance companies, asset managers, and hedge funds? Perhaps financial markets...

In any large enterprise—whether a major corporation or large government agency—indicia of corruption can be difficult to find. Unlike money laundering, which typically requires frequent infusions of...

Most public bids in the UK market are implemented by scheme of arrangement. When it becomes effective, a scheme of arrangement results in the transfer of all of the shares of the target to the bidder...

It is widely acknowledged that the current low interest rate environment and intense competition in several countries have resulted in rather subdued revenues of European banks. In particular Net...

The requirement to adopt one of three options for workforce engagement specified in Provision 5 of the 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code (‘UKCGC’) is an important development in terms of integrating...

The pandemic crisis has accelerated the entry of financial technology (‘fintech’) firms into the banking industry. Some of the new fintech banks are owned or controlled by commercial enterprises. As...

The Law Commission has published a consultation paper which makes provisional proposals for legislative reform to ensure that certain trade documents in electronic form have the same legal effect as...

On 26 May 2021, the District Court of the Hague passed a judgment recognizing an obligation of Royal Dutch Shell to mitigate climate change. Shell was ordered to reduce all carbon dioxide (CO2)...

A growing amount of literature documents that binding financial constraints during economic distress or financial distress, including impending bankruptcy, can have an adverse effect on firms’ human...

Shareholder primacy has been the subject of vigorous recent debate. In recent years, asset managers have launched hundreds of ‘socially responsible’ or ‘ESG’ funds that take into account how...

Last year, Vice President Kamala Harris proclaimed that America was at an ‘inflection point,’ a description since repeated by President Biden and now moving quickly into the popular lexicon. The term...

In the period following the Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009), the EU bank capital regulation was significantly enhanced through the introduction of stringent requirements aimed to improve the...

US policy is increasingly being influenced by suspicion of links between Chinese companies and the Chinese party-state and military. These suspicions have been fueled by Xi Jinping’s economic...

When should the law respect the separate legal status of corporations or other limited liability entities owned by foreign governments? The question implicates familiar principles of organizational...

India’s Specific Relief Act, 1963 (SRA) bars the specific performance of contracts that are inherently determinable. And yet, no guidance as to what constitutes determinability is found either under...