Oxford Business Law Blog | Oxford Law Faculty

Filter by

Author

OBLB categories

Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance
Financial Regulation

The Role of ‘Expert Reviewers’ in Private Capital Markets

Reena Aggarwal | Kathleen Hanley | Xiaofei Zhao

Investors rely on information produced by intermediaries such as research analysts and auditors, or other legal sources such as company regulatory filings to obtain knowledge about offerings in...

OBLB categories

Commercial Law
Corporate Finance
Financial Regulation

Prospectus Liability and Initial Coin Offerings—Back to the Roots

Sebastian Mock

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have been something like the flavour of the month in legal research. In the last years almost every law journal dealt extensively with this phenomenon. The most relevant...

OBLB categories

Corporate Governance
Financial Regulation

Proposed regulatory framework of cryptoassets in the UK: A critical analysis

Aurelio Gurrea Martínez

On 23 January 2019, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a guidance on cryptoassets (FCA-GC) with the purpose of improving and clarifying the regulatory framework of cryptoassets in the...

OBLB categories

Corporate Finance

The Crypto Puzzle

Dan Awrey

One of the central predictions of the law and finance literature is that strong investor protection laws will promote the development of strong markets. This prediction rests on the observation that...

OBLB categories

Corporate Finance
Financial Regulation

Legal Challenges of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO)

Iris Barsan

Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), a term intentionally mirroring Initial Public Offerings (IPO), seem to be the new hype of the virtual currency community leading to an all-time high of the bitcoin of...

OBLB categories

Commercial Law
Corporate Finance
Corporate Tax
Financial Regulation

Tech Business Law: Initial Coin Offerings ('ICOs') and The DAO Decision

E Joan | Peter Crane

On 25 July 2017 the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (‘US SEC’) issued a report of investigation in which it classified The Decentralized Autonomous Organization’s (‘The DAO’s’)...

OBLB categories

Financial Regulation

Blockchain, Smart Contracts and DAOs from a Legal Perspective

Wardyński & Partners

When we were writing our report on virtual currencies two years ago, we had the impression that we had hit on a topic that would revolutionise the economy and the law. Time has shown that it was just...

Supported by