Oxford Business Law Blog

The FCA’s Business Plan for 2021/2022 summarises the regulator’s priority areas following the pandemic and Brexit. We explore the prevailing issues featured in the plan, including protecting...

The EU project is at an inflection point. Intra-EU alliances are altering in light of the UK’s departure, and the EU is grappling with a constellation of crises, including the continued fallout from...

Is there an impact of Brexit on corporate mobility in the form of companies incorporated in the United Kingdom making use of as cross-border mergers, conversions, divisions or seat transfers of SEs (...

British businesses face a dilemma regarding Brexit. Leaving the European Union (EU), tariffs and duties will be imposed on British exports to the single market and cross-border trade in services will...

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...

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-...

March 2019 marked the twentieth anniversary of the landmark Centros case. It was the first of three judgments in which the (then) European Court of Justice (the Court) affirmed companies’ freedom of...

In March 2018, the UK and the EU reached an agreement on the terms of an implementation period following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU (Brexit). But in the case of a ‘no-deal Brexit’, ie, if there...

With the UK’s planned exit from the European Union on March 29, 2019 looming and the likelihood of an exit without a withdrawal agreement (a so-called 'No Deal' Brexit) increasingly probable, merging...

Whether London will remain the centre for European financial transactions will depend on its access to the Single Market. Under the current circumstances, nobody can predict either what the legal...

As seems to become clearer as time passes, there might not be too many alternatives for the UK’s financial sector if the UK wishes to gain access to the single market post-Brexit. In fact, the EU...

In a recent Spotlight article, Richard Gordon QC considers the first draft of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill and the extent to which banks and other financial market participants can challenge by way of...