Oxford Business Law Blog

In October 2020 the Dutch financial daily newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad published an article (‘Euronext provides high frequency traders with an invisible advantage’) in which it revealed that...

As of today, 67.8% of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware. This means that Delaware, despite having less than one-third of one percent of the US population, is by far the primary place...

In our recent article, entitled ‘Relief and Rescue During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Financial Regulatory Suspensions in the UK’ (Stanford International Policy Review) and its shorter version, entitled ‘...

Since 2010, the UK’s Stewardship Code has encouraged institutional investors to proactively engage with the boards of the companies in which they are invested (issuers) to pre-emptively identify and...

Common sense would suggest that the delivery of sustainable stakeholder value over the long-term requires a focus on both value creation and value preservation. Logic would therefore command that in...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are referred to as the new ‘Corporate Technologies’ or ‘CorpTech’ (Enriques and Zetzsche, 2019), currently watched in terms of...

It is in vogue to argue that, due to political inaction vis-à-vis the climate crisis, any progress that institutional investors can make to mitigate corporate climate change is advantageous. As the...

An increasing number of firms make reference to the pursuit of environmental and social goals in the definition of their purpose. This raises important issues with respect to the way in which the...

Entrepreneurship, market-creating innovations and business growth rely on various support mechanisms, one of which is access to credit. Different measures are taken to facilitate access to credit for...

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have been something like the flavour of the month in legal research. In the last years almost every law journal dealt extensively with this phenomenon. The most relevant...

Social enterprises are on the rise worldwide. A recent survey of 1,030 social enterprises found that they generated more than €6.06 billion in revenue, impacted more than 871 million beneficiaries,...

As India implements its new national vision of creating an affable environment for business, laws governing restructuring and dissolution of companies will be at the core of the economic activity...

In the United States, supervision is as old as banking, or nearly as old. State governments developed oversight regimes in the 1830s, and the federal government has played a permanent supervisory...

Many companies enter bankruptcy proceedings seeking to sell their assets. Customer data—such as consumer names, birth dates, purchasing preferences, and contact information—can be among a company’s...

Bilateral Conventions of Establishment (BCEs)—sometimes referred to as Treaties of Establishment or Establishment Treaties—are international instruments concluded between the 19th and 20th centuries...

The recent evolution of corporate whistleblowing has demonstrated the capacity of effective internal whistleblowing systems to support regulatory aims. In light of this, the potential impact of fast-...

This post, which summarises my recent paper, looks into recent issues involving close-out netting and collateralization for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transactions from the point of Japanese...

On 31 August 2020, the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Final Report on Corporate Criminal Responsibility was tabled in the Australian Parliament. The ALRC made 20 recommendations to strengthen and...

The United Kingdom Supreme Court has released its much anticipated judgment in Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned the Court of Appeal’s previous finding that the...