Oxford Business Law Blog

Our paper on startups shows that European company law is still anchored to last century ideas about growth and economic development. We hope that the Italian experience and our proposals can be of...

In recent years, managers, regulators, and politicians, have often complained about the alleged short-term pressure exercised by the stock market on listed companies. Loyalty shares are probably the...

Based on current projections, China will be one of the world’s largest exporters of capital in the near future, a first in modern history for a nondemocratic state. The ‘China, Law and Development’ (...

In the past years, Singapore has modernized its insolvency framework with the purpose of becoming an international hub for debt restructuring. One of the most significant reforms has affected the...

On 30 July 2019 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued its Final Guidance on its approach to cryptoassets. An ambiguity which the Final Guidance has caused concerns the FCA's previously...

Technology will soon force broad changes in how we conceive of corporate liability. The law’s doctrines for evaluating corporate misconduct date from a time when human beings ran corporations. Today...

The decade since the financial crisis has witnessed a proliferation of various ‘light touch’ financial restructuring techniques in the form of so-called pre-insolvency proceedings. These proceedings...

The potential of financial technology for innovation and growth is well-established by now. Yet startups often face many regulatory challenges in the early years, obstructing market access...

The Business & Liability Research Network (BLRN)—a partnership between the Company Law department and the Business Studies department of the Leiden Law School—is launching its call for proposals...

In a chapter of the book ‘The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions’ (L Enriques and T Tröger eds, CUP 2019), I explain why some controlling shareholders in bad-law jurisdictions ‘generously...

In my new paper 'Revisiting Legal Capital', I argue for the UK to revisit the legal capital (maintenance of capital) doctrine. Leaving the EU could present an opportunity, but to reform legal capital...

Successfully restructuring a business in financial distress requires that there be sufficient remaining value to justify saving it. Traditional corporate rescue and restructuring laws were focused on...

It is settled case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that parent companies can be fined for competition law infringements committed by their subsidiaries and that successor...

Centros and the cases following it had a profound transformational effect on European company law. While it has so far not resulted in fully-fledged regulatory competition for publicly traded...

With Brexit fast approaching, firms which have passports under Schedule 3 to Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (‘inbound passporting EEA firms’) are making final preparations for the post-...

A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia seeks to reconceptualise the role of shareholders in listed companies as one that should include fiduciary duties, particularly the duty...

In our article, we aim to analyse the issue of non-financial information, as ultimately regulated by the European Directive 2014/95/EU, and its implementation by each European Member State, with an...