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The litigation that led to the decision issued on 9 June 2016 by the New Zealand Supreme Court in Ririnui v Landcorp Farming Ltd [2016] NZSC 62 had the potential to produce judgments of considerable...

Something is happening in Germany. The local FinTech industry is up-and-coming - objectively so. While, for some time, the domestic FinTech scene was not commonly known for its breathtaking speed of...

Is the hedge fund industry undergoing an existential crisis? In this post, I argue that the dismal performance of hedge fund managers during the post-crisis period should not be attributed to a lack...

Many studies on bank performance have tried to understand underperformance during financial crises, particularly compared to their banking peers. For example, Fahlenbrach, Prilmeier, and Stulz (2012...

The central clearing of OTC derivatives is a key element of the post-crisis financial markets reforms. It offers numerous benefits for financial stability including the multilateral netting of...

A Stigler Center conversation examines the mechanisms that drive cultural capture and why it is less prevalent today. This post is a cross-post from the Promarket blog, the blog of the Stigler Center...

My article entitled ‘European Shareholder Rights Directive Proposals: A Critical Analysis in Mapping with the UK Stewardship Code?’ will shortly be published in the ERA Forum, which is the flagship...

This post comes to us from Leila Gaafar from Wilmer Hale. The high-profile insider trading prosecution dubbed “Operation Tabernula”, brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), has this month...

This post comes to us from Amelia Stawpert (Senior Associate) of Hogan Lovells International LLP. HM Treasury have completed a consultation process on proposals to change limited partnership...

The argumentum a crise is as simple and versatile as it is powerful and prone to misuse. It starts with ‘An important lesson from the crisis is that’ or ‘The crisis has taught us that’ followed by a...

Why do we memorialize some bargains in dozens of related contracts, rather than just one? Mergers and acquisitions deals, for example, are often formed through constellations of agreements that I...

In March the then Cabinet Minister Iain Duncan Smith told an interviewer that the UK had ‘just given away our right to veto’ over Eurozone area changes, for ‘next to nothing in return’ (see here)...

The issue of personal liability of directors in tort when acting for or on behalf of companies has arisen on a number of occasions before the courts in the UK and other common law jurisdictions in...

The recent publication of the ‘Panama Papers’ has focused public attention on how elaborate corporate structures and offshore tax havens can be used by politicians, celebrities and other elites to...

At a time when India is coming to grips with a Fintech revolution characterized by sprawling innovations and a new breed of ever-enthusiastic entrepreneurs, one would expect the regulatory response...

The current evidence on the relation between corporate governance on disclosure and the timeliness of firm’s price discovery is mainly country specific. Our paper “Corporate governance, companies’...

Between 2008 and 2015 32 countries implemented 42 boardroom gender diversity policies in the form of legal quotas for listed or state-owned firms, governance code amendments, and disclosure...

ABOUT THE SECURED TRANSACTIONS LAW REFORM PROJECT The Secured Transactions Law Reform Project was set up by Professor Sir Roy Goode to examine the English law relating to secured transactions and to...

In April 2016 revelations from the Panama Papers spotlighted the role that banking secrecy - which is offered in the so called tax and financial centres and territories - performs in the global...