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The European Union’s Investment Firm Directive (IFD) and the Investment Firm Regulation (IFR) came into force on 26 December 2019 and entered into effect on 26 June 2021. As discussed in an earlier...

While the surge in the stock of industrial robots operating worldwide has captured the attention of an increasing number of scholars, relatively few works have focussed on the legal factors that may...

The Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) was enacted to fix an ailing system. Prior to the introduction of the law, it took years for a company to wind up, which often resulted in protracted...

The FCA’s Business Plan for 2021/2022 summarises the regulator’s priority areas following the pandemic and Brexit. We explore the prevailing issues featured in the plan, including protecting...

Algorithmic trading—where two computer programmes deal directly with each other—is a commonplace of modern securities trading. However, in general such trading occurs under a framework contract which...

In recent years, a few illustrious bankruptcies in the maritime industry have revealed the legal issues that arise when maritime law and cross-border insolvency law come into conflict. Most notable...

Over the past decade, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has come to the forefront of attention both in the corporate environment and in the academic literature. According to the Global...

‘Imagining a World Without Corporate Criminal Law’ is a symposium that will generate new ideas about the value of applying criminal sanctions to collective entities. Leading scholars representing...

In a pro-arbitration decision granting urgent interim relief, the Indian Supreme Court, in its judgement handed down on August 6, 2021, has upheld an emergency arbitrator (EA) award of the Singapore...

Those who aspire to be on boards should downplay their legal credentials; the emphasis should instead be on one's skills and experience in business, management and leadership. In recent years, the...

Over the past decade, the role of banking supervisors has become broader and more complex. The unconventional nature and growing scale of interventions—as seen again during the COVID-19 pandemic—have...

Some days ago, the World Bank discontinued the Doing Business (DB) report. For nearly twenty years, the DB’s annual report was one of the main drivers of business law reform worldwide, and a top data...

Data permeates all aspects of modern societies. As a result of decades of digital transformation, inputs in digital form are created, gathered, and shared across the globe to support core societal...

As the UK Parliament returns from its summer recess, new legislation will be considered in the insolvency space. One such piece of legislation which finished its third reading in the Commons and is...

The Italian 2020 Corporate Governance Code is one of the first European codes (together with the Spanish and the Dutch ones) that require—although on a comply or explain basis—listed companies to...

Most students of contract law devote little or no time to the question of how contracts are produced. There is no need to be concerned with the actual production process if transactional lawyers...

Providing small companies alternative ways to access capital has become especially important today, owing to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small businesses. Equity Crowd-sourced Funding,...

Let me begin with a disclaimer. I am no expert in Australian law. However, it seems to me that the Australian Federal Court (FCA) has made a series of missteps in the DABUS case (Thaler v...

Private vehicles with the ability to perform driving tasks typically undertaken by the person behind the wheel are increasing in their prevalence on public roads. These connected and autonomous...