Oxford Business Law Blog

Even prior to the emergence of COVID-19, global securities regulators were questioning whether short sellers needed to be put on a tighter leash. On December 4, 2019, Japan’s GPIF, the largest...

Roe and Coates spoke with Harvard Law Today (HLT) about what could be done to lower the chances of a bankruptcy backlog and how other corporate governance challenges posed by the pandemic should be...

Different countries have adopted various strategies to prevent or delay initiation of insolvency proceedings and protect businesses in the wake of the Covid-19 Crisis. This has previously been...

Finally, they have done it. On 5 May 2020, the German Constitutional Court ruled for the first time in history that an act by the European Union was ultra vires, therefore void and without any effect...

In wake of the COVID-19 pandemic various countries are taking steps to modify the application of their insolvency laws. Many countries have taken steps to prevent the initiation of insolvency...

On 16 April 2020, the Global Corporate Governance Colloquia and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) held the 24-Hour Global Webinar ‘The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate...

Recognizing that many companies may have urgent liquidity needs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the New York Stock Exchange has waived, through June 30, 2020, certain requirements of its...

As of the time of this post, we are fighting an unprecedented battle against the Covid-19 pandemic. Its enormous human, political, social and economic costs dramatically call our attention to the...

The Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) have announced the 24-Hour Global Webinar ‘The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate...

The scale of disruption to contractual relationships caused by Covid-19 stands to be significant and widespread. In order to assist businesses analyse their position under English law contracts, we...

The COVID-19 (corona) virus has reached pandemic status. It currently spreads over the world and is expected to infect a majority of all people within the next month(s), according to health experts...

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a consultation paper entitled 'Proposals to enhance climate-related disclosures by listed issuers and clarification of existing disclosure...

On February 5, 2020, the US Copyright Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) co-sponsored the event ‘Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence’ in Washington, DC. The...

The European Union is moving toward implementing a policy to strengthen anti–money laundering (AML) supervision across its Single Market, namely enforcing requirements on banks and other firms to...

The World Bank Group’s (WBG) Secured Transactions and Asset Based Lending (ST/ABL) Team, a unit under the WBG Financial Inclusion, Infrastructure & Access Unit, has recently released a new...

In 2019 crypto-asset activities moved squarely within the sights of the EU Commission and international standard-setting bodies and decisive regulatory action can be expected in the year ahead...

The Financial Stability Board (FSB), established in the aftermath of the crisis by the G20, is an international entity that issues standards regarding global financial system. Since 2011, every...

In 2018, United States venture capital firms invested over $10.5 billion in FinTech firms across 1,042 deals. And of the 48 FinTech ‘unicorns’ valued at over $1 billion, the US is home to 28 of them...