Oxford Business Law Blog

In February 2016, the CEO of BlackRock Inc., Laurence Fink, issued his annual letter to the CEOs of S&P 500 corporations. In this letter, three specific requests were made. The first was that...

What are the qualities that shareholders look for in a director candidate? Do beauty and the appearance of competence in a candidate affect corporate elections? In our recent working paper, we...

Corporate planners and practitioners know well that it takes quite a long time to close a long-form merger, with the shareholder approval requirement accounting for the bulk of the delay in almost...

The duty to act in good faith in the interests of the company (now the duty to promote the success of the company in s 172 Companies Act 2006 (UK)) is the central fiduciary duty of company directors...

In this chapter on boards for Elsevier’s Handbook of Corporate Governance, edited by Benjamin Hermalin and Michael Weisbach, I argue that boards of directors are intellectually interesting; the...

An attempt at courtship has ended up in court. Over the past months, US paints and coatings giant PPG Industries (‘PPG’) has tried to woe the management and shareholders of Dutch rival Akzo Nobel (‘...

This post summarises the key findings of my article 'Director Penalty Notices – Promoting a Culture of Good Corporate Governance and of Successful Corporate Rescue Post Insolvency'. The Australian...

My forthcoming book chapter, Employee Participation in Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility, which I recently posted on SSRN, looks at the interaction of employee participation...

This post comes to us from Cooley LLP. It has been authored by Cydney S Posner. Another version of this post was published here. In July, the SEC approved a Nasdaq proposal requiring listed companies...

Policymakers, researchers and organizations are paying growing attention to the promotion of equality and diversity in the workplace, particularly in top positions. After introducing mandatory gender...

The litigation that led to the decision issued on 9 June 2016 by the New Zealand Supreme Court in Ririnui v Landcorp Farming Ltd [2016] NZSC 62 had the potential to produce judgments of considerable...

The issue of personal liability of directors in tort when acting for or on behalf of companies has arisen on a number of occasions before the courts in the UK and other common law jurisdictions in...