Oxford Business Law Blog

A bidder seeking to acquire a UK listed company has given "post-offer undertakings" in relation to increasing the target's employee headcount and keeping the target's headquarters in the UK if its...

The importance of private fund investor due diligence in the investment allocation process, in capital formation, and in private fund litigation has reached unprecedented levels and is still...

In our forthcoming Chapter, Hsin-Ti Chang, Ying-Hsin Tsai and I, review the regulatory strategies in corporate board reform and analyse the impact of introducing the institution of independent...

What is the Banking Union and how will it develop? My paper ‘EU Banking Union: Agencies and the Lesson from the US’ (available here) argues that a comparative analysis between EU and US...

In Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Amazon EU Sarl (Case C-191/15), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has reaffirmed the position with regards to which member state’s data...

The UK's vote to leave the EU has raised questions across the financial markets and answers are only beginning to trickle through. For CLO (Collateralised Loan Obligation) market participants – and...

In our paper ‘Women in Finance’, we show that, across countries, banks have less gender diverse boards than other firms. Bank board diversity is particularly low in countries with greater gender gaps...

On 23 June 2016, the UK voted in a referendum to determine whether it should remain a member of the EU. The country voted by a margin of 52% for a future outside the EU. As of today, there is...

In our forthcoming essay, Empowering Individual Plaintiffs, we highlight, analyze and propose solutions to a problem that has been hitherto largely overlooked: the plight of individual plaintiffs in...

There was a time, not too long ago, when the introduction of the euro was hailed as a tremendous success. Yet the Eurozone now faces an existential crisis. Since 2008, a number of member states have...

In the immediate aftermath of the UK's vote to the leave the EU, it has become commonplace in Britain for the news to be viewed through a Brexit prism: what does it tell us about the UK's position in...

Event studies have been used in litigation to examine issues such as how a company’s stock price responds to news events and to assess the efficiency of the market in which a stock trades...

The Italian corporate governance system features high ownership concentration, and the presence of control-enhancing mechanisms that are conducive to controlling shareholders’ dominance at the...

'Bank Resolution Regimes: What Next?’ is a one-day conference that examines the new bank resolution regime under the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive and the new requirements that banks have to...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that short selling triggers financial crises or exacerbates market-wide stock price crash risk. Short sellers are often treated as scapegoats and held responsible for the...

In a recently published paper, we find that access to corporate bond markets affects investment in the US, but not in the euro-area. Euro-area bond markets seem to be irrelevant because firms receive...

My article 'Product Intervention for Retail Structured Investment Products: A Comparison of Rules in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan' examines and compares how financial consumers can be protected by...

The post was originally published on the R Street Institute website. Americans have for years been addicted to long-term (that is, 15 to 30-year) fixed-rate residential mortgage loans. We just can’t...

The Business Innovation and Skills Committee of Parliament has begun an inquiry into corporate governance. It has invited comments on directors duties, executive pay and composition of boards with a...

Andrew Tetley is a French avocat, an English solicitor, and Counsel at Reed Smith LLP. From 1 October 2016, and in a radical departure from the current legal position, the notion of ‘hardship’ is set...

Hedge fund activism is to corporate law’s early twenty-first century what the hostile takeover was to its late twentieth century. Like the hostile takeover, activism threatens incumbent managers and...