Oxford Business Law Blog

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...

In April 2017, the European Commission launched a public consultation on conflict of laws rules for third-party effects of assignment of claims and established a group to advise on conflict of laws...

Within the academic community, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has triggered a lively debate regarding whether data subjects have a “right to explanation” of automated decisions made...

In recent years, controls on foreign investments have become increasingly significant. The European Commission has reacted to developments at the national level by submitting a proposal for a “...

Noncompete agreements, which prevent employees from going to work for competitors or starting competing businesses, have become pretty common: 38 percent of workers have at some point signed a...

‘Africa Rising’ has been accompanied by significant legal challenges for many African governments. These have included costly, protracted creditor litigation against sovereign debtor states, poorly...

On December 4, 2017, the US Bankrupty Court for the Southern District of New York had to decide about a petition to recognise Dutch insolvency proceedings launched by an affiliate of Brazilian...

Bitcoin stands like no other cryptocurrency for the profound transformation of financial markets in the digital economy. While the last few months saw the free trade in goods struggle against trends...

The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Secretariat has published its ICSID Caseload report with a special focus on investor-state arbitration in the EU as of 30 April...

The bankruptcy courts and their appellate courts continue to explore issues of interest to practitioners and academics. This quarterly summary of recent developments in bankruptcy law covers cases...

In October 2017, we wrote that the Court of Appeal in Lungowe and others v. Vedanta and KCM [2017] EWCA (Civ) 1528 risked creating a "Catch 22" for English domiciled multinationals - by fulfilling...

Bernie Sanders offered a big financial reform idea during the 2016 campaign: convert credit rating agencies into not-for-profit entities. Like former Senator Al Franken, Sanders recognized that the...

The Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam – India’s largest banking scandal – is as impeccably swadeshi (literally “of one’s own country”, indigenous) as that bank’s origins. It highlights in crass terms...

In a long-awaited report to the President, the Treasury Department recommended reforming—but not repealing—the orderly liquidation authority (“OLA”) created by Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act (“Title...