Oxford Business Law Blog

The treatment of defaulting loans has become a major concern for supervisory authorities and bank regulators. During the global financial crisis (GFC), the growth of nonperforming loans (NPLs) was a...

Corporate groups are special in many respects, including the way group entities attract financing. They frequently provide guarantees and collateral or serve as co-obligors to secure performance by...

In today’s globalized world, regulation of global supply chains suffers from a well-known ‘governance gap’ that results from a fundamental mismatch between ‘a territorial logic of law and the...

In our recent research paper, we argue that venture capital-friendly corporate law should feature flexible fair value protections. Venture capital is critical to innovation and, thus, economic growth...

In an important development, RiverRock Securities Ltd v International Bank of St Petersburg (JSC) (decided on September 23, 2020), the England & Wales High Court held that avoidance claims on...

In recent weeks, the Oxford Business Law Blog has been featuring a series of blog posts covering the recently released ‘Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance’ prepared by...

Business history and theory reflect a tension between public and private conceptions of the corporation. This tension and conceptual ambiguity lay close to the surface of The Modern Corporation and...

There is at present a considerable risk that the European Commission and Parliament will fail to appreciate the severity of the criticism that the recent sustainability and corporate governance...

Oppressed minority shareholders seemingly have an obvious solution for their woes: vote with their feet, sell their shares, and leave the company. But what if selling shares on the stock market is...

I commend the European Commission for producing an extremely timely report and for being committed to ensuring that business works for wider society, not just short-term profit. However, given the...

In our recent paper, ‘Infected by Bias: Behavioral Science and the Legal Response to COVID-19’, we apply the framework of behavioral economics to better understand efforts to address the COVID-19...

The study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance by Ernst&Young analyses the regulative alternatives for promoting long-termism and sustainability, by way of setting...

Ridiculously low ceilings on administrative fines hindered the effectiveness of EU data protection law for over twenty years. US tech giants may have seen these fines as a cost of doing business. Now...

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. When the Internet emerged in the mid-1990s, it was heralded as an unprecedented technology of human empowerment; a place where human beings could meet, learn, and...

The persistent gender gap in corporate leadership has led several European countries to institute board-related policies such as gender quotas, starting with Norway in 2003. Recently, California...

The rapidly spreading coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020, all of a sudden changed everyday life all over Europe and the...

The past decade has seen a reinvigorated interest in the concept of trust, primarily driven by the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, which has been commonly attributed to the failure of...

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Study on directorsʼ duties and sustainable corporate governance report prepared by EY and published and submitted by the European Commission for...

On 19 September 2020 the German Ministry of Justice published the long awaited draft law (the ‘Reform Bill’) transposing the EU Restructuring and Insolvency Directive 2019 (the ‘Directive’). The...