Oxford Business Law Blog

The shareholder empowerment movement (the 'movement'), driven primarily by public pension funds and union-related funds with over $3 billion in assets, has renewed its effort to eliminate, restrict,...

The private ordering of corporate governance arrangements is a wonderful thing. It ‘allows the internal affairs of each corporation to be tailored to its own attributes and qualities, including its...

In the wake of the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (‘ASEAN’) worked towards setting up the ASEAN Economic Community (‘AEC’) to establish ASEAN as a single...

The fewer numbers of companies going public in recent years has raised many questions regarding the IPO process, in both academic and regulatory circles. As we all strive to understand these changes...

When firms access public equity markets via an Initial Public Offering (‘IPO’), it is very common for the offering price to be substantially below the first day’s closing price. This ‘IPO...

Last week, the UK Financial Conduct Authority published an interim report as part of its Market Study into Investment and Corporate Banking, alongside two further documents focused on the IPO process...