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  • Corporate Finance
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09 Apr 2021
4 min to read

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: Call for Reflection on Sustainable Corporate Governance

Alex Edmans | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Steen Thomsen

Together with other ECGI Research Members, we have recently issued a Call for Reflection on Sustainable Corporate Governance to express our concerns over the risk that new legislation on EU companies...

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  • Financial Regulation
02 Apr 2021
4 min to read

‘Cash Back’ Rewards as Taxable Gross Income: The Curious Case of Konstantin Anikeev

Richard C. Gaffney Jr.

On February 23, 2021, the United States Tax Court issued a split decision on the question of whether ‘cash back’ rewards issued by credit card companies are taxable gross income. In Konstantin...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
18 Mar 2021
3 min to read

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...
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  • Brexit
  • Financial Regulation
16 Mar 2021
5 min to read

UK Listing Review (March 3, 2021)

Paul Davies QC (hon), Harris Manchester College

UK financial institutions are clearly suffering from Brexit. Passporting rights have gone, financial services are not dealt with to any significant degree by the UK/EU future relations deal, and the...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
08 Mar 2021
5 min to read

The Attribution Game—Corporate Fault and Attribution of Criminal Responsibility

Samuel Walpole

On 31 August 2020, the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Final Report on Corporate Criminal Responsibility was tabled in the Australian Parliament. The ALRC made 20 recommendations to strengthen and...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
05 Mar 2021
4 min to read

Update on Parent Company Liability: Okpabi v Shell Reinforces Risks for Companies with Offshore Subsidiaries

Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

The United Kingdom Supreme Court has released its much anticipated judgment in Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell Plc. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned the Court of Appeal’s previous finding that the...

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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
18 Jan 2021
1 min to read

Online Event Series: ‘Supporting Distressed Businesses in the COVID-19 Crisis’—The View from the UK

OBLB Editors

This year policymakers around the globe have scrambled to intervene in response to an anticipated wave of business bankruptcies flowing from COVID-19 trading disruption. A range of policies have been...

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  • Corporate Governance
14 Dec 2020
7 min to read

Antitrust 2.0 – Governance of oversight over digital gatekeepers

Thorsten Käseberg

I. The current policy debate The European Commission will table two main legislative proposals on digital platforms: The Digital Markets Act (DMA) with new rules regarding the behaviour of gatekeeper...

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  • Commercial Law
14 Dec 2020
3 min to read

Practical Takeaways for Commodity Traders from the China Coal Decision by the Singaporean Court of Appeal

Subhajit Banerji | Promit Chatterjee

It is common for commodity traders to place orders over emails or telephone calls without executing formal contracts or, at the most, by executing skeletal contracts with boilerplate terms. Given the...

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  • Commercial Law
10 Dec 2020
3 min to read

The Proper Law of an Agreement and the lex situs of Shares in Cross-Border Litigation: Hong Kong and China Perspectives

Thomas Yeon

The proper law of contract in the context of determining the existence of an equitable proprietary interest in shares gives rise to complicated questions as to the characteristics necessary for...
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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
19 Nov 2020
1 min to read

Online Event Series: ‘Supporting Distressed Businesses in the COVID-19 Crisis’—The View from Germany

OBLB Editors

This year policymakers around the globe have scrambled to intervene in response to an anticipated wave of business bankruptcies flowing from COVID-19 trading disruption. A range of policies have been...

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  • Commercial Law
04 Nov 2020
5 min to read

RiverRock Securities and Arbitrability of Avoidance Claims in Insolvency

Rohan Deshpande

In an important development, RiverRock Securities Ltd v International Bank of St Petersburg (JSC) (decided on September 23, 2020), the England & Wales High Court held that avoidance claims on...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
03 Nov 2020
1 min to read

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: ECGI Policy Workshop on ‘Directors' Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance’

OBLB Editors

In recent weeks, the Oxford Business Law Blog has been featuring a series of blog posts covering the recently released ‘Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance’ prepared by...

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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
26 Oct 2020
5 min to read

A Giant Leap for German Restructuring Law? The New Draft Law for Preventive Restructuring Procedures in Germany

Stephan Madaus

On 19 September 2020 the German Ministry of Justice published the long awaited draft law (the ‘Reform Bill’) transposing the EU Restructuring and Insolvency Directive 2019 (the ‘Directive’). The...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
21 Oct 2020
5 min to read

Building a Healthy 'Corporate Culture' – Global Regulatory Trends and What All Directors Need to Do

Scott Atkins | Kai Luck

Regulators across the globe have prioritised improvements in ‘corporate culture’ for all companies – from financial institutions to energy and resources entities, manufacturers and service providers...

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  • Commercial Law
09 Oct 2020
2 min to read

Another Look at Connected Party Pre-Packs

Tim Koch

Amidst the flurry of legislative activity presaging the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act, longstanding concerns over the perceived abuses associated with connected party pre-pack sales...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
08 Oct 2020
1 min to read

Announcing the New Series: ‘European Commission Initiative on Directors' Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance’

OBLB Editors

The Oxford Business Law Blog is launching the ‘European Commission Initiative on Directors' Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance Series’ or, for brevity, ‘the EC Corporate Governance...

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  • Financial Regulation
02 Oct 2020
3 min to read

Russia Adopts Law on Digital Financial Assets: A Step Forward or Another Move Towards Further Restrictions?

Mariet Mezokh

A new Russian law ‘On digital financial assets, digital currency and amendments to certain laws of the Russian Federation’ dated July 31, 2020 (‘the Law’) introduces definitions of digital financial...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
09 Sep 2020
9 min to read

Event Report: SMEs, Families and Capital Markets

European Corporate Governance Institute

The ECGI - SSE Riga Conference on ‘SMEs, Families and Capital Markets’ took place (online) on 19 June 2020, bringing together policymakers, academics and practitioners to explore some of the key...

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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
28 Aug 2020
2 min to read

Call for Papers: The 3rd Conference on Law & Macroeconomics (Online)

Yair Listokin

The economic devastation caused by Covid-19 triggered a slew of new research on law’s role in mediating the business cycle, economic growth, and inequality. We welcome submissions for an online...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
26 Aug 2020
2 min to read

Call for Papers: Elgar Research Handbook on Global Capital Markets

Iris H-Y Chiu | Iain G MacNeil

We have recently been commissioned by Edward Elgar to curate a Research Handbook on Global Capital Markets. It is timely for a Research Handbook to take stock of the key developments in global...

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