Oxford Business Law Blog

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) represent about 90% of businesses and more than 50% of employment worldwide. Despite the economic relevance of MSMEs in most countries around the...

Short selling is a controversial investment tool. There seems to be a deeply ingrained view that short sellers are mere speculators whose aim is to mercilessly bring down otherwise sound companies to...

On 19 November 2020 Chancellor Rishi Sunak launched the UK Listings Review, with the objective of helping UK markets to remain world leading and fit for the future shape of the economy. This post...

Many corporate law scholars watched in amazement as merger litigation exploded over the past fifteen years. In 2005, only 37 percent of mergers involving US public companies with a transaction size...

In May 2020, I wrote on this Blog on whether India should consider introducing pre-packaged insolvencies (‘pre-packs’) into its formal insolvency framework as an additional tool to resolve COVID-19...

The political responses to the Covid-19 pandemic present unprecedented and acute challenges for the EU Member States’ financial and economic systems. To cushion the economic consequences of the Covid...

Private meetings between management and investors occur worldwide and are generally held at corporate headquarters with invited investors and sell-side analysts (also known as site visits). Ng and...

In the past decades, several countries in Latin America, including Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay, have implemented significant corporate law reforms. In the meantime, the regulatory...

'Never again' was the impassioned conviction of governments worldwide after being forced to bail out banking institutions and provide guarantees and capital to avert systemic collapse as a result of...

A few months ago Argentina’s new government under President Alberto Fernández completed a bond exchange which was approved overwhelmingly by its foreign bondholders. The final restructuring deal that...

On 18 June 2020, the EU ‘Taxonomy Regulation’, (TR) was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council, with the objective to develop a common language and a uniform definition of what counts as...

Financial regulation is commonly associated with a set of ex ante rules imposed by government on the financial sector in the public interest and accompanied by mechanisms of public supervision and...

In a recent working paper, we look at what drives shareholder activism around the world, with a focus specifically on the role of corporate governance reforms. While shareholder activism has been a...

This year policymakers around the globe have scrambled to intervene in response to an anticipated wave of business bankruptcies flowing from COVID-19 trading disruption. A range of policies have been...

Earlier this year, the Indian Supreme Court overturned the central bank's decision to ban cryptocurrency in the country. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) continues to be averse to accepting crypto-...

Institutional investors are increasingly facing pressure from their clients and others to focus more on ensuring that their investments promote corporate sustainability. Such expectations are...

ETFs, broadly defined as exchange-traded portfolios of assets, have proven to be among the most successful financial innovations of recent history. Since the introduction of the first ETF in the...

The advent of social media has revolutionized the 21st century, making significant changes to internet communication. This post looks into the shortcomings of social media such as Facebook, Twitter,...