Oxford Business Law Blog

France has embarked on a major competition to benefit from Brexit and the weakening of London's financial center. President Emmanuel Macron, as well as Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and Economy...

Scenes from the movie ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ that feature traders on the brink of a nervous breakdown rushing to outbid each other by hastily placing phone orders, can no longer pose as a...

In an article forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review, I analyze the strategic use of insider trading law to disable the trading activity of an information recipient. I call this...

Until recently crowdfunding activities in Switzerland were severely restricted by banking regulations. An exuberant legal bank monopoly for the deposit taking business limited both the possibilities...

The now well-versed decision in Aslam and others v Uber BV opened with the line ‘Uber is a modern business phenomenon’. It is not entirely clear whether the tribunal saw Uber as a new phenomenon in...

In recent times, cybersecurity has been among the foremost of issues that global financial regulators have sought to address. In attempting to do so, several distinct approaches have emerged. These...

The digital economy has boasted of 'unicorns', 'change agents' and 'disruption'. But the difficult question that competition law, and the European Commission, must grapple with is whether the nature...

The creation of the mutual fund will go down as one of the greatest innovations in financial history. It has provided tens if not hundreds of millions of unsophisticated and uninformed stock market...

In its preliminary ruling of 22 June 2017, the ECJ held that the Dutch pre-pack does not come under the derogation in Article 5(1) of Directive 2001/23.The reasoning of the ECJ will have important...

For creditors, insolvency proceedings hold the promise of a peaceful afterlife. If their debtor fails to satisfy their claim, an impartial liquidator will take over and, to the extent possible and in...

With the Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) being bailed out by the Italian taxpayer, push comes to shove: Are post-crisis reforms working? First and foremost, this concerns the innovative...

On 6th June, five European banking federations signed, with the blessing of three European associations representing the interests of SMEs and businesses, a four-page document entitled ‘High-level...

The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union after 44 years poses unprecedented legal challenges. EU secondary legislation and EU related legislation is evident across the whole...

A brief summary of the case For the purpose of this note, the case (C-106/16) may be summarised as follows. Polbud — Wykonawstwo sp. z o.o. (‘Polbud’) is a private limited liability company...

The FSA’s Retail Distribution Review ('RDR') resulted in a ban on commissions for retail investment advice in the United Kingdom which was implemented in COBS 6.1A.4 R at the end of 2012. This ban on...