Oxford Business Law Blog

Corporate groups are special in many respects, including the way group entities attract financing. They frequently provide guarantees and collateral or serve as co-obligors to secure performance by...

In today’s globalized world, regulation of global supply chains suffers from a well-known ‘governance gap’ that results from a fundamental mismatch between ‘a territorial logic of law and the...

In our recent research paper, we argue that venture capital-friendly corporate law should feature flexible fair value protections. Venture capital is critical to innovation and, thus, economic growth...

Business history and theory reflect a tension between public and private conceptions of the corporation. This tension and conceptual ambiguity lay close to the surface of The Modern Corporation and...

There is at present a considerable risk that the European Commission and Parliament will fail to appreciate the severity of the criticism that the recent sustainability and corporate governance...

Oppressed minority shareholders seemingly have an obvious solution for their woes: vote with their feet, sell their shares, and leave the company. But what if selling shares on the stock market is...

In our recent paper, ‘Infected by Bias: Behavioral Science and the Legal Response to COVID-19’, we apply the framework of behavioral economics to better understand efforts to address the COVID-19...

Ridiculously low ceilings on administrative fines hindered the effectiveness of EU data protection law for over twenty years. US tech giants may have seen these fines as a cost of doing business. Now...

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. When the Internet emerged in the mid-1990s, it was heralded as an unprecedented technology of human empowerment; a place where human beings could meet, learn, and...

The persistent gender gap in corporate leadership has led several European countries to institute board-related policies such as gender quotas, starting with Norway in 2003. Recently, California...

The rapidly spreading coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020, all of a sudden changed everyday life all over Europe and the...

The past decade has seen a reinvigorated interest in the concept of trust, primarily driven by the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, which has been commonly attributed to the failure of...

Fintech’s reach has been steadily expanding India, with a proliferation of intermediaries, particularly in the payments and lending spheres. While not wholly devoid of activity, the digital banking...

In the past years, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have become an important fundraising method for many individuals and firms. While most regulators, academics and policymakers around the world have...

It is now widely recognized that legal entity status fulfills important economic functions by separating a firm’s business assets and the personal assets of its founders, directors, or shareholders,...

The economic success of the shareholder primacy model has dominated UK company law and imposed a strong allegiance to the shareholder value principle as a primary measure of utility. In contrast,...

During the COVID-19 pandemic a new consensus has emerged which castigates modern finance for its preponderance towards creation of excessive leverage and asset bubbles due to excessive borrowing,...

The annual report, like other regulatory filings, is more than a legal requirement; it provides an opportunity for public companies to communicate their financial health, promote their culture and...

Part A of this post offered a high-level overview of DeFi by focusing on one particular DeFi project, Sushiswap. In this Part B, the post will explore legal and compliance considerations that are...

In July 2020, the European Commission published the ‘Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance’ by EY (‘the Report’). The Report purports to find evidence of debilitating short-...

Institutional ownership has grown tremendously over the last decades, rising to more than 70% of US public firms. The composition of institutional ownership has also changed, with a remarkable growth...