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The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) featured a Focus Panel on ‘Common Ownership: Antitrust Meets Corporate Governance’ at their Annual Members’ Meeting in Berlin, in May 2018. The...

One of the most controversial topics in corporate law scholarship has been whether there is a ‘short-termism problem’ in equity capital markets, and if there is such a problem, how to remedy it. One...

2019 Global Corporate Governance Colloquium Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany 7 - 8 June 2019 Deadline for submissions: 14 September 2018 (at midnight CET) The...

On 1 July 2018, the Supreme People’s Court of China’s 'Regulations on Several Issues regarding the Establishment of International Commercial Courts' (the Regulations) came into effect. The...

The ostensive watchdogs of market disclosure have become poster boys for corporate chicanery, argues Karthik Ramanna of Oxford’s Blavatnik School. Auditors are in the business of trust. But in the...

On 1 July 2018 the FCA (the Financial Conduct Authority, the UK’s financial services regulator) introduced a new category of premium listing exclusively available to equity issuers that qualify as ‘...

The recent AT&T and Amex decisions showcase the pitfalls of considering antitrust cases solely on the basis of economic analysis and may have the effect of immunizing tech giants from serious...

In the last few years there had sprung up in New Zealand a series of first instance cases where judges had acceded to pleas by liquidators that the damages for which company directors could be found...

The ability to avoid fraudulent or preferential transfers is a fundamental part of U.S. bankruptcy law. However, when a transfer by a U.S. entity to a non-U.S. transferee takes place outside the U.S...

The recent UK Parliamentary cross-party enquiry into the collapse of Carillion plc, the British multinational facilities management and construction services company makes interesting reading. Its...

In Case C-284/16 Achmea (Achmea), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) seems to once and for all establish that the legal system of the European Union (EU law) precludes investor-state dispute...

In a previous post, we wrote that the UK Government announced a series of reforms to the UK Corporate Governance regime in August 2017. Some of these reforms are being addressed through the on-going...

The European Commission has funded a project to study ‘semi-formal’ insolvency proceedings in four EU countries (Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK) to collect the best empirical data available in...

On May 24, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (Reform Act), which, among other things, amended securities law provisions focused...

According to the classic Cadbury definition, ‘corporate governance is the system by which companies are directed and controlled’. On 5 December 2017, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published a...

The MiFID II inducements regime is complex and can cause confusion. MiFID II contains a number of inducements requirements, including rules relating to conflicts of interest, research, hospitality,...

In its landmark Achmea case, the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) found the arbitration provision of the bilateral investment treaty (“BIT”) between the Netherlands and Slovakia to be incompatible...

Bridgestone Licensing Services, Inc. (“Bridgestone Licensing”) and Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (“Bridgestone Americas”), which held rights in certain FIRESTONE and BRIDGESTONE trademarks through a...