Oxford Business Law Blog

The international spread of the coronavirus is not only generating dramatic consequences from a social perspective but it is also heavily affecting the global economy. For this reason, governments,...

Are supply-side fluctuations in the derivatives market important for corporate risk management? If the supply of hedging instruments is perfectly elastic, then hedging levels are determined...

In my most recent paper, ‘Bond workouts, distressed equity offerings and State interventionism - Analysis of the Consequences of the Inefficiency of French Law Concerning the Restructuring of Large...

In a well-reasoned decision, the Second Circuit yesterday resolved an issue that has caused significant uncertainty for out-of-court debt restructurings and, as a result, for the corporate debt...

Anti-lawyer sentiment pervades modern popular culture: ‘What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?’ asks the fictional character Andrew Beckett in the 1993 movie...

The modern financial system is highly interconnected. Institutions engage in a diverse range of transactions and contracts with each other. Examples include the interbank lending market and the over-...