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02 Aug 2016

(Don’t) Blame It All on Brexit…

Martin R. Götz | Tobias H. Tröger

A key lesson for policymakers after the financial crisis was to reduce the likelihood of bank bailouts using taxpayers’ funds. Bailing out banks not only stresses public finances – it also undermines...

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01 Aug 2016

Brexit and Insolvency – A View from the Continent

Bob Wessels

The now famous Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (‘TEU’) provides that, after receiving a Member State’s notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU, the EU will negotiate with...

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27 Jul 2016

Brexit and Financial Services: 10 Things You Should Know

Norton Rose Fulbright

This briefing note explores the implications of the decision to leave the EU for the financial services sector. 01 | Introduction On June 23, 2016, the UK held its historic referendum concerning its...
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25 Jul 2016

Legal Aspects of Withdrawal from the EU: A Briefing Note

Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Mansfield College | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law

The withdrawal of the UK from the EU (or ‘Brexit’) as a result of the referendum of June 23 is certain to have profound implications for all aspects of the law of the United Kingdom. As soon as the...

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20 Jul 2016

Does the MetLife decision change the way US regulators should be thinking about systemic risk? Should UK regulators, post-Brexit, be reconsidering their systemic risk regulatory regime as well?

Cristie Ford

A bit of comparative analysis, like this, might help us think about these questions. Across the EU, the US and (at least until the impact of Brexit is felt) the UK, we see varying degrees of...

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19 Jul 2016

Brexit to the European Economic Area: What Would It Mean?

John Armour, Faculty of Law

As the dust clears from the result of the UK’s referendum on EU membership, new Prime Minister Theresa May and her team must begin serious consideration of the options open to the UK. Two issues are...

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18 Jul 2016

Corporate Co-Determination German-Style as a Model for the UK?

Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Mathias Habersack | Caspar Behme | Lars Klöhn

On 13 July 2016, Theresa May took up office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Only shortly before, she had made headlines when she proposed to adopt European-style worker representation on the...

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17 Jul 2016

UK Consumer Law in the Wake of the EU Referendum

Taylor Wessing

This post comes to us from TaylorWessing. It has been co-authored by Katie Chandler, Debbie Heywood and Sian Skelton. This post was also published here. Consumer protection law in the UK has recently...

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13 Jul 2016

Brexit: What does it Mean for Restructuring and Insolvency?

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

This post comes to us from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. It has been co-authored by the following Partners at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer: Ken Baird, Richard Tett, Catherine Balmond, Ryan...
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07 Jul 2016

Why the UK Has Currently Little Chance to Become a Successful Tax or Regulatory Haven

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law

Across the channel, commentators are predicting that a likely outcome of Brexit is that, after withdrawing, the UK will lower corporate taxes and deregulate its economy to attract relocations from...

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05 Jul 2016

Brexit: Need for Action for UK Limited Companies in Germany?

Carsten Kruchen

The freedom of establishment in the European Union is also known to have led to a competition of corporate laws in Europe (for more details see Kruchen, European Freedom of Establishment and "...

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04 Jul 2016

Brexit Headline Checklist: Assessing the Impact for Business

White & Case

The result of the UK referendum on its membership of the EU will have a significant impact for many businesses but the exact nature of that impact is difficult to predict with any degree of certainty...
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04 Jul 2016

A New Referendum is a Constitutional Requirement

Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Mansfield College

The most recent primary legislation on the relations between the European Union and the United Kingdom is the European Union Act 2011. This Act, who some scholars called at the time an ‘unprecedented...

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01 Jul 2016

The Real Lesson From Brexit

Luigi Zingales

A Pro-Market blog post examines the lessons we learnt from Brexit. This post is a cross-post from the Promarket blog, the blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of...

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30 Jun 2016

ICYMI: Statement on the EU Referendum Result by the UCL Centre for Ethics and Law

Iris H-Y Chiu

Posted by Iris H-Y Chiu, co-Director, Centre for Ethics and Law, University College London. Following the result of the EU Referendum, legal academics have an important part to play in constructively...

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30 Jun 2016

ICYMI: De Brauw’s Q&A on the Consequences of Brexit

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek

The outcome of the UK referendum on Thursday 23 June 2016 is that the UK will in time leave the EU. The consequences for businesses and financial markets in the UK the EU and even globally could be...

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30 Jun 2016

Brexit: Continuity of Current Arrangements for Banks and Investment Banks

Shearman & Sterling

This post comes to us from Barnabas Reynolds, Partner, Head of the global Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory Group and Global Co-Head of Financial Institutions at Shearman...

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29 Jun 2016

Post-Brexit Regulatory Landscape - Radical Departure or Business as Usual?

Macfarlanes

This post is authored by Paul Ellison, Partner in Macfarlanes' Financial Services Group. This article outlines possible changes to the UK financial services regulatory landscape following the UK...
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27 Jun 2016

Brexit Negotiation Games

Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College

The UK has voted by a slim majority to leave the European Union. How is this going to happen? What will be the negotiation strategy of the UK, on the one hand, and the European Union, on the other...

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06 Jun 2016

The UK and the Eurozone

Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Mansfield College

In March the then Cabinet Minister Iain Duncan Smith told an interviewer that the UK had ‘just given away our right to veto’ over Eurozone area changes, for ‘next to nothing in return’ (see here)...
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09 May 2016

Brexit Essentials: Contingency planning – what corporates can do between now and the referendum

Slaughter and May

Our latest Brexit Essentials briefing, available here, discusses the potentially significant consequences of a Brexit for businesses and financial markets, and explains how the precise impact will...

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