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This post is the updated version of a contribution published on the Oxford Business Law Blog on 7 July 2016. Immediately after the EU referendum, a French commentator predicted that, after Brexit,...

To date, the response of the UK economy to the threat of Brexit has been quite benign. As this article is being written, there are gathering clouds in terms of consumer demand and industrial...

Although it could never attract as many tabloid headlines as other ‘negotiating Brexit’ issues, a successful resolution to questions about the future framework for recognition and enforcement of...

Introduction In this opinion piece, I argue that the Brexit negotiations need not be a zero or negative sum game, in which one side engages in claiming value to the detriment of the other. Instead,...

Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to make Brexit a success. This will be difficult: the European Union (‘EU’) has brought the United Kingdom (‘UK’) significant economic benefits and prosperity...

Brexit will have a direct impact on the United Kingdom’s ability to participate in the European Union’s external trade arrangements with third countries. This does not only include free trade...

With the Article 50-notification put on the table in Brussels on 29 March 2017, Theresa May has formally started the Brexit negotiations’ process. There is a lot at stake for all parties concerned...

The triggering of Article 50 by Theresa May represents not the start of the Brexit negotiations, but the end of the first, preparatory phase. There are many deep complexities to be addressed going...

Over the last decades, England has become a prime, if not the prime centre for settling international disputes: International companies choose English law more often than any other law as the...

The UK provides important legal and and financial infrastructures for corporate activity in Europe. With respect to the type of corporate activity that may be impacted by a ‘hard Brexit,’ financial...

After months of discussion on potential EU/UK access models for financial services, the launch of the Article 50 exit process on 29 March 2017 with Prime Minister May’s ‘Article 50 letter’ has...

Brexit will be anything but negligible for the organisation of European finance. It is estimated that up to 20 % (i.e. circa £ 30 bn) of the revenues of the City of London are related to services...

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,...

This post introduces the ‘Brexit Negotiations Series’, a series of posts based on contributions to the ‘Negotiating Brexit’ conference that took place in Oxford on 17 March 2017. Brexit is on its way...

The Brexit referendum in the UK has thrown the European Union into a crisis. Crises hold the potential for disaster – but also for a constructive and creative new beginning. Much will depend on...

If Brexit fails, it will do so because withdrawal happens suddenly and with no indication about the future arrangements that will replace membership in the EU. In this short note, I explain how this...

The events of 23 June 2016 have turned lawyers into end of the pier fortune tellers. Starved of signal, and befuddled by noise, who among us has not uttered a sentence to a client or colleague in the...