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British businesses face a dilemma regarding Brexit. Leaving the European Union (EU), tariffs and duties will be imposed on British exports to the single market and cross-border trade in services will...

Whether the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (CPA) applies to software is a topic of considerable uncertainty. Since the 1980s practitioners and scholars have debated whether the European product...

M&A transactions involving entities processing personal data will be subjected to the new Brazilian General Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados or ‘LGPD’) when this legislation...

The hugely successful Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (the Cape Town Convention) and its current Protocols for aircraft equipment, railway rolling stock and space assets...

In the past years, Singapore has modernized its insolvency framework with the purpose of becoming an international hub for debt restructuring. One of the most significant reforms has affected the...

On 30 July 2019 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued its Final Guidance on its approach to cryptoassets. An ambiguity which the Final Guidance has caused concerns the FCA's previously...

A small number of large fund groups have become an increasingly influential force by controlling a significant share of publicly-traded companies, a phenomenon often termed ‘common ownership’. They...

The UK has recently embarked on far-reaching reform to its approach to senior management accountability in financial services, in contrast to the US’s approach, which has seen more evolutionary...

The UK Jurisdiction Task Force (UKJT) is one of the six taskforces of the LawTech Delivery Panel, formed with the aim of ensuring that English law and the jurisdiction of England and Wales together...

Recently, an Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) constituted by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India released a report recommending a law to ban cryptocurrencies in India. The proposed law...

The US-China ‘trade war’ has captured headlines for more than a year now. One of the primary justifications given by the US government for this onslaught—including a WTO case, tariffs, export...

Challenger banks do not only challenge traditional banks but also the rules aimed at them. The detail, how banks have to verify the identity of new customers in different jurisdictions, shows how...

The Spanish Ministry of Economy has recently released a new bill that, among other aspects, proposes an amendment of the Spanish Companies Act to allow listed companies to adopt loyalty shares. These...

What is the (opportunity) cost of private benefits of control? Using dollar cost of corporate giving to measure private benefit of control, we show in our study ‘Private Benefits and Corporate...

It has now been twenty years since the European Court of Justice delivered its landmark Centros­ decision, followed by a string of cases similarly supportive of corporate mobility. In theory, these...