Oxford Business Law Blog

Looking at the trends of annual shareholders meetings held in Japan in 2020, it can be said that many companies have been slow to close their accounts due to the ongoing pandemic and the associated...

As 2015 witnessed governments across the globe acknowledging the urgency to tackle the problem of climate change, finance came to be seen as crucial in realizing the vision in the United Nations...

As more businesses seek to expand their reach by offering services across the globe, including to the European Union countries, the issue of compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (...

The United States Congress recently enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) which applies to foreign-owned shell companies. It mandates a ‘reporting company’ to provide certain information of...

In October 2020 the Dutch financial daily newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad published an article (‘Euronext provides high frequency traders with an invisible advantage’) in which it revealed that...

Common sense would suggest that the delivery of sustainable stakeholder value over the long-term requires a focus on both value creation and value preservation. Logic would therefore command that in...

It is in vogue to argue that, due to political inaction vis-à-vis the climate crisis, any progress that institutional investors can make to mitigate corporate climate change is advantageous. As the...

As India implements its new national vision of creating an affable environment for business, laws governing restructuring and dissolution of companies will be at the core of the economic activity...

Bilateral Conventions of Establishment (BCEs)—sometimes referred to as Treaties of Establishment or Establishment Treaties—are international instruments concluded between the 19th and 20th centuries...

COVID-19 threw Annual General Meetings (AGMs) across the UK and beyond into chaos, leading 2/3 of FTSE 100 companies to close their doors to their shareholders. Yet even before this crisis, AGMs have...

The GameStop saga has been mainly portrayed as the revenge of the retail day trader against the mighty hedge funds. While we all love the romanticised version of this story, the reality is more...

Over the last decade, applications of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and crypto-assets have been increasingly observed within the EU financial sector. However, regulatory fragmentation and...

Mergers, squeeze-outs, and other corporate restructurings serve to transfer control or to save costs by streamlining the corporate structure. They also offer an opportunity for controllers to...

Short selling is a controversial investment tool. There seems to be a deeply ingrained view that short sellers are mere speculators whose aim is to mercilessly bring down otherwise sound companies to...

On 19 November 2020 Chancellor Rishi Sunak launched the UK Listings Review, with the objective of helping UK markets to remain world leading and fit for the future shape of the economy. This post...

In May 2020, I wrote on this Blog on whether India should consider introducing pre-packaged insolvencies (‘pre-packs’) into its formal insolvency framework as an additional tool to resolve COVID-19...

Earlier this year, the Indian Supreme Court overturned the central bank's decision to ban cryptocurrency in the country. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) continues to be averse to accepting crypto-...

The advent of social media has revolutionized the 21st century, making significant changes to internet communication. This post looks into the shortcomings of social media such as Facebook, Twitter,...