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07 Jan 2020
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Understanding US Regulatory and Market Access Considerations to Help Accelerate Growth for FinTechs

Shearman & Sterling

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...

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02 Dec 2019
3 min to read

NYSE Proposes Letting Companies Raise Funds in a Direct Listing

Davis Polk

The ‘traditional’ IPO model has received a lot of criticism recently in the media and from venture capital investors for perceived ‘mispricings’ that result in a pop in the opening trade. Recently,...

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02 Dec 2019
2 min to read

Call for Papers: The Future of Banking and Finance in the Digital Era

Dora Neo | Sandra Booysen

The Centre for Banking & Finance Law (CBFL) at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore is holding a conference on the Future of Banking and Finance in the Digital Era on 9 - 10 March...
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21 Nov 2019
2 min to read

A Directive to Protect Whistle-blowers

Dimitrios Kafteranis

Less than two years ago, my post was presenting the European Parliament Resolution on the need to protect whistle-blowers at the EU level. The post was commenting, inter alia, on the difficult work...
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05 Nov 2019
2 min to read

SL Claimants v Tesco plc: High Court agrees with ‘Intermediation and Beyond’ that a Claim Under s.90A FSMA Lies in Respect of Intermediated Securities

Louise Gullifer QC (Hon) | Jennifer Payne, Merton College

The increasing use of intermediation in the holding of securities creates both advantages and disadvantages for issuers and investors and has implications for the operation of the capital markets as...

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  • Corporate Governance
26 Oct 2019
2 min to read

The New Paradigm

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

With the adoption this week of The UK Stewardship Code 2020, to accompany The UK Corporate Governance Code 2018, the UK Financial Reporting Council has promulgated corporate governance, stewardship...

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22 Oct 2019
1 min to read

The Oxford Law Faculty and the Department of Computer Science Join Forces to Deliver a New Interdisciplinary Course

Václav Janeček, St Edmund Hall

On Tuesday 15th October, the University of Oxford has launched its new interdisciplinary course in ‘Law and Computer Science’. This course, jointly offered by the Law Faculty (co-convenor Professor...

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02 Oct 2019
3 min to read

English Court of Appeal hands down eagerly awaited judgment clarifying right to damages for breaches of data protection laws

Laura Feldman

In the eagerly awaited decision of Llloyd v Google LLC, the Court of Appeal has provided helpful clarification on the circumstances when individuals can claim damages for breaches of their rights in...
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26 Sep 2019
2 min to read

2018 Oxford Business Law Blog Round-Up: Top 20 Most Read Posts

OBLB Editors

Thanks to the quality of its posts, the OBLB attracts wide readership. In 2018 alone, the OBLB website was visited over 300,000 times, that is more than 25,000 monthly. Our readers came to our...

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17 Sep 2019
1 min to read

Call for Proposals: Corporate & Organizational Decision-Making

Iris Wuisman | Jean-Pierre van der Rest | Jan Adriaanse | Reinout Vriesendorp

The Business & Liability Research Network (BLRN)—a partnership between the Company Law department and the Business Studies department of the Leiden Law School—is launching its call for proposals...

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09 Sep 2019
4 min to read

Regulatory reporting: What should firms do to prepare for Brexit?

Mete Feridun

With Brexit fast approaching, firms which have passports under Schedule 3 to Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (‘inbound passporting EEA firms’) are making final preparations for the post-...

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04 Sep 2019
3 min to read

2nd SMU-3CL Cambridge Roundtable on Corporate Insolvency Law

Felix Steffek | Aurelio Gurrea Martínez

On 27 June 2019, the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law hosted the 2nd SMU–3CL Cambridge Roundtable on Corporate Insolvency Law. This roundtable is an initiative jointly organised by the...

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16 Aug 2019
6 min to read

The Culmination of the Judgments Project: The HCCH Judgments Convention

Michael Douglas

In 1992, the United States proposed that a multilateral convention on recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments be negotiated at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (‘HCCH’). 27...

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08 Jul 2019
1 min to read

Call for Papers: Technological Transformations and European Business Law

Iris H-Y Chiu

The European Business Law Review issues a call for papers to appear in a special Issue in second half of 2020. Our theme is 'Technological Transformations and European Business Law'. We are...

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05 Jul 2019
3 min to read

The EU Cross-border Distribution of Funds: The Implications for Alternative Investment Funds

Tim Lewis | Jane Tuckley | Phil Bartram | Stephanie Briggs | Sam Kay | Aaron Stocks | Jeremy Elmore | Will Normand

A new package of measures amending the existing regimes governing the cross-border distribution of funds is due to become law shortly: a Directive (the CBD Directive) will amend the existing regimes...

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01 Jul 2019
3 min to read

A Legal and Regulatory Framework for Governance of Cryptoassets

Apolline Blandin | Michel Rauchs | Hatim Hussain

In the inaugural Global Cryptoasset Regulatory Landscape Study, a team of researchers at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School, have compared and contrasted various...

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  • Financial Regulation
25 Jun 2019
4 min to read

Ever-changing leverage ratio framework may cause regulation fatigue

Mete Feridun

The revised EU Capital Requirements Directive and Regulation, commonly referred to as CRD 5 and CRR 2, refine and continue to implement Basel III framework in the EU. One of the key rules introduced...

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  • Financial Regulation
14 Jun 2019
5 min to read

New EU prudential regime for investment firms

Tim Lewis | Jane Tuckley | Phil Bartram | Stephanie Biggs

The new Regulation on prudential requirements for MiFID investment firms (IFR) and the accompanying Directive (IFD) have now been passed by the European Parliament and, subject to adoption by the...

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30 May 2019
4 min to read

The Implications of the UK Supreme Court's Decision in Vedanta for the Management of Human Rights Risk in Overseas Operations and Supply Chains

Hogan Lovells

Since the US Supreme Court effectively closed the door to foreign, human rights related claims against businesses under the Alien Tort Statute, courts in the UK, Canada and beyond have seen an...

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23 May 2019
12 min to read

Centros@20 Series: Conference Report—'Centros and European Company Law: Twenty Years of Living Dangerously'

Alvaro Pereira

March 2019 marked the twentieth anniversary of the landmark Centros case. It was the first of three judgments in which the (then) European Court of Justice (the Court) affirmed companies’ freedom of...
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22 May 2019
1 min to read

Introducing the Centros@20 Series

Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law

This post introduces the ‘Centros@20 Series’, a special series of posts based on contributions to the ‘Centros and European Company Law: Twenty Years of Living Dangerously’ conference that took place...

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