Oxford Business Law Blog

Over the past decade a new era of FinTech (‘financial technology’) has emerged through the increasing convergence of the long-term process of digitization of finance, datafication, and new...

Shareholder cooperation as a tool for active corporate ownership, and a means by which to effectively voice concerns about corporate governance and performance, is on the rise. While wolf packs...

The European Union recently adopted a Restructuring Directive intended to facilitate the reorganization of insolvent and other financially troubled firms. Although the central goal of the Directive...

With news of whistleblowers, alleged spies and breaches of confidence entering the public consciousness of late, it is important to consider how the public’s right to discover and learn information...

This blog post reviews the implementation of the Cross-border Mergers Directive (the ‘CBMD’)[1] and contemplates on future perspectives. It is based on a chapter published recently in an edited book...

The ‘invisible hand’ has become an icon for an economic philosophy which assumes that a laissez-faire governmental policy will result in optimal social and financial outcomes as market forces will...

The United States pursues more successful corporate criminal enforcement actions against large multi-national firms than any other country, collecting enormous penalties and occupying center stage in...

Wrongdoing is ubiquitous. Media outlets relentlessly report a seemingly ceaseless stream of deleterious human behaviour, from consumer fraud and financial misrepresentation to corporate and political...

Should traditional rules of contract law apply to transactions in markets for personal data involving consumers? The protection of consumer information in the United States (US) has followed a ‘...

My paper, 'Anarchy, State, and Blockchain Utopia: Rule of Law Versus Lex Cryptographia', written as a chapter of the collective book entitled General Principles and Digitalisation (Hart Publishing,...

Artificial intelligence has had a profound impact on finance. In the span of a few decades, it has made finance faster, more accessible, more profitable, and more efficient in many ways. Despite all...

Meeting the growing global demand for energy is a crucial challenge of this century, as it poses severe climate and energy security-related risks. Investments in renewable energies, such as solar and...

We are currently experiencing a technology-driven transformation in how companies organize themselves. The proliferation of networked digital technologies is forcing companies to reconsider every...

The typical structure of corporations with multiple classes of stock consists of multiple classes of preferred stock and one or more types of common stock. These structures are most commonly used in...

Auditors play a major role in corporate governance and capital markets. Ex ante, auditors facilitate firms’ access to finance by creating trust from public investors. Ex post, auditors can prevent...

Can the choice of place of incorporation constitute an abuse of the corporate form? The case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is telling for it spells out the Court’s...

In recent years, the rise of financial technology (FinTech) has attracted much interest, in part, due to the rapid technological developments to the provision of financial services. New technological...

The UK’s adoption of a stewardship code sparked a global shareholder stewardship movement. Singapore, as a corporate governance leader in Asia, naturally followed suit by introducing its stewardship...

Almost every second, each one of us produces new data whenever we use mobile phones, laptops or cars, whenever we are recorded by public cameras, and whenever we stream music, use social media sites...

Today’s new and emerging digital technologies pose unique and unprecedented challenges to human rights. At the turn of the century, it would have been difficult to imagine the invasive capacity of...

Financial Technology (FinTech) generally refers to new technologies that seek to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services. More specifically, it has been used to describe...