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20 Mar 2020
3 min to read

Bankruptcy Tourism and the European Union’s Corporate Restructuring Quandary: The Cathedral in Another Light

Samir D. Parikh

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...

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  • Corporate Governance
21 Sep 2018
5 min to read

European Parliament Recommends Creating EU-Wide Social Enterprise Legal Status – A Misstep?

J S Liptrap

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...
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  • Brexit
  • Commercial Law
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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14 Dec 2017

Protection of Whistleblowers in the European Union: The Promising Parliament Resolution and the Challenge for the European Commission

Dimitrios Kafteranis

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...

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09 Nov 2017

The European Commission Proposes a Move Towards a Multilateral Investment Court System

Linklaters

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...

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  • Brexit
10 Oct 2017

EU Integration: The Unsustainability of the Status Quo

Ronan McCrea

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...

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  • M&A
02 Oct 2017
3 min to read

The Cross-border Mergers Directive in the Spotlight: International Conference

Thomas Papadopoulos

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...
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  • Brexit
12 Sep 2017

Miller, Statutory Interpretation, and the True Place of EU Law in UK Law

Mikołaj Barczentewicz, University College

In a paper forthcoming in Public Law, I argue for a different understanding of the relationship between UK law and EU law than the one adopted by the Supreme Court in the Miller judgment. On the view...

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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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  • Commercial Law
18 Aug 2017

Good for Governance: Erzberger v TUI AG and the Codetermination Bargains

Ewan McGaughey

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,...
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26 Jun 2017

EU Company Law Harmonization between Convergence and Varieties of Capitalism

Martin Gelter

I recently posted my work EU Company Law Harmonization between Convergence and Varieties of Capitalism (forthcoming in the Research Handbook on the History of Corporation and Company Law, edited by...

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  • Commercial Law
12 Apr 2017

Tailoring Dispute Rules in Shareholder Litigation

Matteo Gargantini | Verity Winship

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...

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07 Apr 2017

Brexit Negotiations Series: 'Leaving the EU: impact on bank customers'

Luis Correia da Silva

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...
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  • Brexit
05 Apr 2017

Brexit Negotiations Series: ‘Brexit Negotiations and their Impact on the Brexit Planning of Banks – As with Many Negotiation Processes, Timing is Everything’

Johannes Adolff

Many EU banks are in the midst of their Brexit planning. Obviously, their micro-level decisions are driven by what is happening in the Brexit negotiations on the macro level. Put more precisely,...

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29 Mar 2017

2017 Heralds New Non-Financial Reporting Requirements Across Europe

Allen & Overy

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...

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  • Brexit
19 Dec 2016

How Great is the 'Great Repeal Bill'?

Taylor Wessing

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...

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  • Financial Regulation
14 Dec 2016

European Insurance Union and How to Get There

Dirk Schoenmaker

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...

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  • Financial Regulation
20 Nov 2016

No Country Left Behind: History Complicates Efforts to Harmonize International Regulation

Hans B. Christensen | Christian Leuz | Luzi Hail

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...

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  • Brexit
07 Nov 2016

Brexit-Related SEC Disclosure Trends

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

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...

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  • Brexit
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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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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