Oxford Business Law Blog

In the modern digital world, where there is cybermoney, there are also cyberattackers. According to IBM, the finance and insurance sector has now been the single most attacked industry for four years...

The US bankruptcy system is regarded as the preeminent bankruptcy system in the world due to its ability to secure high creditor recovery rates, preserve value for stakeholders, and facilitate...

In July 2018, the European Parliament passed a resolution recommending to the Commission the creation of an optional EU-wide legal status for social enterprises. The Commission now has one year to...

The European Parliament has adopted an important, but not binding, resolution on legitimate measures to protect whistleblowers acting in the public interest when disclosing confidential information...

The European Commission has recently requested authorisation to launch negotiations to establish a permanent Multilateral Investment Court, which would hear investment disputes under existing and...

The UK’s decision to leave the Union has not prompted any other Member State to consider doing so. There is no significant demand amongst Member States for a large-scale reversal of the project of...

The Department of Law of the University of Cyprus is hosting an international conference on company law, which will be held on Saturday 7 October 2017. The title of the conference is ‘Cross-border...

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...

Important if underwhelming, Erzberger v TUI AG (2017) C-566/15 has held national codetermination laws are not an ‘impediment to free movement of workers’ in the European Union. Codetermination laws,...

As shareholder litigation expands globally and increases in economic significance, so does the interest of parties in fighting over the rules that govern it and determine its scope. Sometimes this...

While trading internationally used to be the reserve of large multinational corporations, the digital revolution has meant that SMEs are now born operating across borders and expect to be able to...

For many large companies across Europe, 2017 marked the introduction of new non-financial reporting requirements addressing issues such as human rights and corruption for financial years beginning on...

The 'Great Repeal Bill' As the Brexit process continues to be mired in legal challenges (which are explored in more detail in our full article, Brexit and UK law in 2017), one of the few concrete...

The issue The full entry into force at the start of 2016 of the European Union’s Solvency II risk-based capital framework for insurance poses new challenges for supervisory cooperation in Europe...

The European Union (EU) enacted a series of regulations in the early 2000s to improve the financial markets of member states. While the new regulations were formally the same across the EU, member...

Four months after the United Kingdom voted to exit the European Union, the scope and timing of Brexit remain unclear. Until such details are determined, there will be economic and political...

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...