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14 Jul 2020
3 min to read

The Nascent Primary Market of Security Token Offerings

Thomas Lambert | Daniel Liebau | Peter Roosenboom

The years 2017 and 2018 saw an influx of ventures raising substantial amounts of money through initial coin offerings (ICOs). The Ethereum blockchain greatly facilitated the spectacular surge of ICOs...

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  • Financial Regulation
13 Jul 2020
5 min to read

Sustainability is No Longer in the Eye of the Beholder: An Overview of the Taxonomy Regulation

Arnaud Van Caenegem

Funds that took due account of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their investment strategies generally outperformed their conventional counterparts during the COVID-19 pandemic...

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  • Financial Regulation
10 Jul 2020
4 min to read

Closing Borders? UK Follows Italy’s CONSOB in Unprecedented Inbound MiFID II Passport Removal

John Ahern | Nikesh Pandit

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has taken action to stop four Cypriot investment firms from continuing to offer contracts for difference (CFDs) to UK investors. The action marks the first...

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  • Financial Regulation
09 Jul 2020
4 min to read

ResTech: Innovative Technologies for Resolution

Giuseppe Loiacono | Alessandro Mazzullo | Edoardo Rulli

The increasing use of financial technologies (FinTech) by market participants has fostered a discussion among public authorities on the use of similar technologies for regulatory (RegTech) and...
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  • Financial Regulation
08 Jul 2020
2 min to read

Fintech Startups and Incumbent Players Series - Bank-Fintech Partnerships, Outsourcing Arrangements, and the Case for a Mentorship Regime

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law

Fintech firms, once perceived as ‘disruptors’ of the traditional banking industry, are now increasingly seen as attractive partners for established financial institutions. Partnership arrangements...

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  • Commercial Law
07 Jul 2020
5 min to read

Invalidity of a Solo Run for the ‘Sole Arbitrator’ under the Indian Arbitration Act

Pareekshit Bishnoi

The notion of independence and impartiality of the adjudicators, be it in the identity of judges or arbitrators, is a hallmark of any adjudicatory process. Nemo iudex in causa sua, meaning that no...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
07 Jul 2020
4 min to read

Margins: Estimating the Influence of the Big Three on Shareholder Proposals

Caleb Griffin

The Big Three index funds—Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street—play an increasingly important role in proxy voting. Their influence derives from the fact that under US law, as well as that of many...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
06 Jul 2020
2 min to read

Webinar: Does the Global Pandemic Signal a Paradigm Shift in Law and the Economy?

Iain MacNeil | Emilios Avgouleas | Irene-Marie Esser

On Friday 12 June, the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow (the Corporate and Financial Law Research group) jointly hosted a full-day webinar entitled ‘Does the global pandemic signal a paradigm...

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  • Corporate Governance
06 Jul 2020
4 min to read

Criminally Insane Corporations

Mihailis E. Diamantis

In the common telling of the corporate criminal justice parable, the law punishes criminal corporations in order to induce them to fix whatever caused them to do wrong. But there are some criminal...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
03 Jul 2020
7 min to read

‘Less is More’ in Non-Financial Reporting Initiatives

Georgina Tsagas | Charlotte Villiers

Our paper ‘Why “Less is More” in non-Financial Reporting Initiatives: Concrete Steps Towards Supporting Sustainability’ sheds light on why ‘less is more’ in the non-financial reporting landscape and...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
03 Jul 2020
6 min to read

EBITDAC, Civil Liabilities and New Paradigms

Suprotik Das

The novel strain of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has led to a trend of companies patching-up reporting by adding estimates of pre-COVID-19 profits to its EBITDA. Recently, COVID-19 prompted Schenck...

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  • Brexit
  • Financial Regulation
02 Jul 2020
6 min to read

Muddying the Waters of Market Manipulation in the EU

Anna L. Christie | J S Liptrap

Since July 2016 it has been an open question whether the Market Abuse Regulation No. 596/2014 (MAR) creates horizontal direct effect such that market participants have a private right of action for...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
01 Jul 2020
5 min to read

Transnational Fiduciary Law: Spaces and Elements

Thilo Kuntz

Even a cursory review shows ample evidence of the importance of fiduciary-related norms, not only both in common-law and civil-law jurisdictions, but also beyond the nation state. Additionally, many...

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  • Corporate Tax
30 Jun 2020
4 min to read

Tiger Global and the Perplexing Complexity of India’s Advance Rulings System for International Tax Issues

Nuggehalli Nigam

India has a system for providing advance rulings for international tax queries by investors. The idea behind this mechanism is to help international investors obtain some clarity on their tax...

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  • Commercial Law
30 Jun 2020
5 min to read

Intellectual Property Justification for Artificial Intelligence

Reto Hilty | Jörg Hoffmann | Stefan Scheuerer

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have tremendous implications for the economy as well as the society at large. Particularly machine learning as general-purpose technology has the...

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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Finance
29 Jun 2020
2 min to read

Estimating the Need for Additional Bankruptcy Judges in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Benjamin Iverson | Jared A. Ellias | Mark J. Roe

We recently estimated the US bankruptcy system’s ability to absorb an anticipated surge of financial distress among American consumers, businesses, and municipalities as a result of COVID-19. An...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
29 Jun 2020
3 min to read

Hurdles for Portfolio Investment in India for Applicants from non-FATF Member Jurisdictions

Nirmit Agrawal

In September 2019, India’s securities market regulator (Securities and Exchange Board of India or SEBI), enacted the SEBI (Foreign Portfolio Investors) Regulations 2019 (FPI Regulations). The FPI...

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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
26 Jun 2020
5 min to read

Resolving Supply Chain Disputes in Compliance With the UN Guiding Principles

Julianne Hughes-Jennet | Ram Mashru

The lockdown measures introduced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic have exacted an unprecedented toll on global supply chains. In some instances, these disruptions may give rise to claims—for...

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  • Financial Regulation
25 Jun 2020
7 min to read

Struggling About the Final Say in EU Law: The ECB Ruling of the German Federal Constitutional Court

Christian Calliess

The PSPP judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC), concerning the European Central Banks (ECB) public purchase programme of sovereign bonds, is only at first glance a ‘bang on the...

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  • Commercial Law
25 Jun 2020
4 min to read

Limits of Personalization of Default Rules—Towards a Normative Theory

Philip M Bender

Some scholars today praise a personalization of the law due to new technological possibilities such as algorithmic analysis of Big Data. When companies personalize their advertisement, why should the...

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  • Corporate Governance
24 Jun 2020
4 min to read

The Conundrum of Common Ownership

Jennifer Hill

My forthcoming article, ‘The Conundrum of Common Ownership’, examines the phenomenon of common ownership, through a corporate governance lens. The common ownership debate has become one of the most...

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