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10 Jun 2019
3 min to read

Centros@20 Series - The Legacy of Centros: Lessons learned from debt restructuring

Jennifer Payne, Merton College

Debt restructuring is an issue that has come to prominence in the twenty years since Centros, in large part due to the difficulties faced by companies in the aftermath of the 2007-08 global financial...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
28 May 2019
4 min to read

Centros@20 Series: Centros, California’s 'Women on Boards' Statute and the Scope of Regulatory Competition

Jill Fisch | Steven Davidoff Solomon

It has been twenty years since the European Court of Justice issued its decision in Centros Ltd. v. Erhvervs - og Selskabsstyrelsen (Centros). Since that time, Centros has been widely understood as...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
23 May 2019
12 min to read

Centros@20 Series: Conference Report—'Centros and European Company Law: Twenty Years of Living Dangerously'

Alvaro Pereira

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...
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10 May 2018

Collateral Damage: Brexit’s Negative Effects on Regulatory Competition and Legal Innovation in Private Law

Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College

In a recent article I attempt to assess the consequences of Brexit for English and European private law. More specifically, I am interested in how the level of legal innovation in private law will be...
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10 Nov 2017

Investor Choice in Global Securities Markets

John Armour, Faculty of Law | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Martin Bengtzen, Faculty of Law

Our recent paper, which forms part of the first phase of the New Special Study of the Securities Markets Project, explores how globalization has affected the operation of securities markets and the...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
11 Sep 2017

A Harmonized European Company Law: Are We There Already?

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law

To what extent is EU company law harmonized? In an essay that draws from my pre-EU-referendum inaugural lecture at Oxford (the audio of which can be accessed here) and was recently published in the...

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  • Financial Regulation
15 Jun 2016

Regulatory Arbitrage and the Efficiency of Banking Regulation

Pierre Boyer | Hubert Kempf

It is common to consider that international financial integration weakens the efficiency of banking regulation as national regulatory authorities are involved in a “race to the bottom”, which leads...

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  • Corporate Governance
08 May 2016

Bad Enforcement as a Competitive Asset in Attracting Incorporations

Andrea Zorzi

In the Noughties, Nevada arose as the place in the US for companies seeking a protective environment for directors, officers and members to incorporate. Nevada made a conscious decision to try to...

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  • Financial Regulation
17 Apr 2016

The Evolution of Corporate Law in Canada: Towards Regulatory Competition?

Stéphane Rousseau

In the United States, the impact of regulatory competition on the evolution of corporate law has generated an intense and long lasting debate opposing the “race to the bottom” and “race to the top”...

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