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15 Jan 2020
2 min to read

A Review of Katharina Pistor's 'The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality'

Massimiliano Vatiero

This new, brilliant and clear (including for non-experts) book by Katharina Pistor is titled 'The Code of Capital' and explores, as the subtitle specifies, 'How the law creates wealth and inequality...
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  • Commercial Law
10 Dec 2019
6 min to read

The Ridiculous Drama in Rome Over Proposals to Reform the ESM Treaty

Theresa Arnold | Ugo Panizza | Mitu Gulati

As of this writing in December 2019, a remarkable debate over sovereign debt contract clauses is going on in Rome, in the Italian parliament (see here and here). Indeed, the debate has become so...

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  • Commercial Law
08 Nov 2019
7 min to read

Unpicking a Fin(e)tech Mess: Can Old Doctrines Cope in the 21st Century?

Kelvin Low | Eliza Mik

The decision of the Singapore International Commercial Court in B2C2 Ltd v Quoine Pte Ltd [2019] will be of interest to Commonwealth lawyers as it grapples with novel questions such as the nature of...

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08 Nov 2019
2 min to read

Shareholder Activism in France—A Model for the US

Martin Lipton | Joshua R. Cammaker

In response to the sharp increase in campaigns by activist hedge funds in France and Europe generally, a French commission has conducted an extensive investigation and issued a carefully researched,...

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07 Nov 2019
3 min to read

Why Are America’s CEOs Talking About Stakeholder Capitalism Now?

Mark J. Roe

Back in August, the Business Roundtable, which comprises the chief executive officers of America’s largest companies—with combined annual revenues of $7 trillion—updated its long-standing statement...

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30 Oct 2019
5 min to read

Disciplining Outsiders in UK Takeover Transactions–Ruling of the Hearings Committee on Dave King

Joseph Liptrap | Anna L. Christie

Perhaps the most attractive aspect of the UK system is the ability of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (the Panel) to regulate the takeover landscape without interference from other public bodies...
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  • Financial Regulation
22 Oct 2019
4 min to read

Welcome to Vilnius: Regulatory Competition in the EU Market for E-Money

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law

If you google ‘Lithuania e-money’, the auto-fill function will suggest that you search for ‘Lithuania e-money license’. If you accept the tip, the first result will be Ecovis, which describes itself...

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  • Commercial Law
15 Oct 2019
4 min to read

A No-Deal Brexit? British Businesses May Get a Good Deal under a UK-China Free Trade Agreement

Joseph Lee

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...

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  • Commercial Law
14 Oct 2019
6 min to read

Autonomous Vehicles, Software and Product Liability: Have the Law Commissions Missed an Opportunity?

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...

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  • M&A
11 Oct 2019
4 min to read

M&A Transactions and the New Brazilian Data Protection Law

Daniel Tardelli Pessoa

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...

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07 Oct 2019
5 min to read

Overestimating party autonomy? The enforcement of security interests under the draft MAC Protocol to the Cape Town Convention

Thomas Keijser

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...
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07 Oct 2019
4 min to read

The Poisoned Brexit Extension Request

Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College

Assume you are the British Prime Minister and your preference ranking on Brexit is as follows. Your primary goal is for the UK to leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October 2019 on the terms you...
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26 Sep 2019
2 min to read

2018 Oxford Business Law Blog Round-Up: Top 20 Most Read Posts

OBLB Editors

Thanks to the quality of its posts, the OBLB attracts wide readership. In 2018 alone, the OBLB website was visited over 300,000 times, that is more than 25,000 monthly. Our readers came to our...

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24 Sep 2019
2 min to read

International Recognition of Singapore’s New Restructuring Framework

Aurelio Gurrea Martínez

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...

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  • Financial Regulation
23 Sep 2019
4 min to read

FCA Final Guidance on Cryptoassets: jettisoning tech-neutrality?

Rory Copeland

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...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
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29 Aug 2019
4 min to read

The Dilemma of Shareholder Engagement by Large Fund Groups

Suren Gomtsian

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...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
28 Aug 2019
5 min to read

Individual Accountability in Financial Services—the UK and US Compared

Omar Salem | Jerome Roche

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...

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  • Corporate Finance
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21 Aug 2019
2 min to read

The Treatment of Cryptotokens at English Law: Back to the Future

Simon Gleeson

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...

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  • Financial Regulation
14 Aug 2019
4 min to read

Report of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Virtual Currencies: A missed opportunity for India

Shehnaz Ahmed

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...
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  • Financial Regulation
06 Aug 2019
4 min to read

Regulatory Technology: Eight Policy Recommendations

Eva Micheler | Johannes Jiang

Recent advances in computer science make it possible to develop technology to facilitate the delivery of regulatory requirements. This technology is referred to as ‘regulatory technology’ or ‘RegTech...

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  • Commercial Law
22 Jul 2019
5 min to read

Reform of China’s ‘Forced’ Technology Transfer Policies

Dan Prud'homme

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...

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