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22 Apr 2021
3 min to read

The ‘Musk Effect’ in cryptocurrency markets

Lennart Ante

In January 2021, the price of Bitcoin rose from about $32,000 to $38,000 within a few hours, which corresponded to a $111 billion increase in market capitalization. This increase followed the...

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  • Corporate Governance
21 Apr 2021
3 min to read

The Law Governing Related Party Transactions in Canada: Rules, Standards and Regulatory Scrutiny

Stéphane Rousseau

Corporate governance research has been shaped by the Berle and Means model that focuses on publicly-traded corporations characterized by the separation between ownership and control. Yet, a look at...

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  • COVID-19
  • Corporate Governance
20 Apr 2021
4 min to read

The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Annual Shareholders Meetings and Dividend Determination in Japanese Companies

Hiroyuki Watanabe

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...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
19 Apr 2021
3 min to read

Managing Corporations’ Risk in Adopting AI: A Corporate Responsibility Paradigm

Iris H-Y Chiu | Ernest Lim

Accelerating developments are being observed in machine learning (ML) technology as the capacities for data capture and ever-increasing computer processing power have significantly improved. This is...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
16 Apr 2021
7 min to read

The Rise of Dual-Class Stock IPOs

Dhruv Aggarwal | Ofer Eldar | Yael V. Hochberg | Lubomir P. Litov

Public markets have undergone dramatic changes in recent years. Not only has the number of publicly traded firms been declining, but the nature of the firms that choose to go public has also changed...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Tax
15 Apr 2021
4 min to read

The Political Dimension of Venture Capital Law in China

Chi Zhang

By employing a comprehensive study of the legal practices of the venture capital industry, my recent article ‘The Political Economy of China’s Business Organisation Laws and its Implications for...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
14 Apr 2021
3 min to read

Not by Contract Alone: The Contractarian Theory of the Corporation and the Paradox of Implied Terms

David Gibbs-Kneller | David Gindis | Derek Whayman

The contractarian theory of the corporation holds that a business corporation is a creature of contract and, more specifically, a nexus of incomplete contracts between directors, shareholders,...
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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
09 Apr 2021
4 min to read

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: Call for Reflection on Sustainable Corporate Governance

Alex Edmans | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Steen Thomsen

Together with other ECGI Research Members, we have recently issued a Call for Reflection on Sustainable Corporate Governance to express our concerns over the risk that new legislation on EU companies...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
08 Apr 2021
5 min to read

The Identity Crisis of Green Finance: A Hybrid Baby of Mankind’s Altruism and Egoism

Rashmi Patowary

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...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
07 Apr 2021
3 min to read

Attribution: A Rule-Based Framework

Ernest Lim

No area of company law seems to have generated greater controversy and uncertainty in recent times than corporate attribution. There have been at least seven decisions handed down in the last decade...

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  • Competition/ Antitrust
  • Corporate Governance
07 Apr 2021
3 min to read

Prosocial Antitrust

Amelia Miazad

Recent developments have placed antitrust law on a collision course with corporate purpose. In a new paper, I reveal the unforeseen negative impacts of this conflict and provide a roadmap for...

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  • COVID-19
  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
05 Apr 2021
5 min to read

Corporate Law Rules in Emergency Times Across Europe

Angelo Borselli | Ignacio Farrando Miguel

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread worldwide like wildfire turning from a public health crisis into what appears to be the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. In addition to measures...

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  • Corporate Governance
01 Apr 2021
4 min to read

Artificial Intelligence: A Roadblock in the Way of Compliance with the GDPR?

Samar Ashour

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 (...

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  • Corporate Governance
30 Mar 2021
3 min to read

The shareholder in France and the United States: A comparative analysis of corporate legal priorities

Forrest G Alogna | Hadrien Bourrellis | Bertrand Cardi | Matthew T Carpenter | Adam O Emmerich | Theodore N Mirvis

The fundamental question in the law of business organizations—what is the purpose of the corporation? —contains a related question of constituencies and therefore priorities among them—whom does the...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
25 Mar 2021
4 min to read

Delaware’s Dominance, Wyoming’s Dare—Blockchain Companies and the Market for Corporate Charters

Pierluigi Matera

As of today, 67.8% of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware. This means that Delaware, despite having less than one-third of one percent of the US population, is by far the primary place...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
24 Mar 2021
4 min to read

The Emperor’s New Code? Time to Re-Evaluate the Nature of Stewardship Engagement Under the UK’s Stewardship Code

Bobby Reddy

Since 2010, the UK’s Stewardship Code has encouraged institutional investors to proactively engage with the boards of the companies in which they are invested (issuers) to pre-emptively identify and...

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  • Corporate Governance
23 Mar 2021
3 min to read

Governance Bodies Endorse Value Preservation as Primary Purpose and Fiduciary Duty

Sean Lyons

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...

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  • Corporate Governance
23 Mar 2021
2 min to read

Technology vs Ideology: How Far will Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Ledger Technology Transform Corporate Governance and Business?

Iris H-Y Chiu | Ernest Lim

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are referred to as the new ‘Corporate Technologies’ or ‘CorpTech’ (Enriques and Zetzsche, 2019), currently watched in terms of...

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  • Corporate Governance
22 Mar 2021
4 min to read

Beware Investor Responses to the Climate Crisis

J S Liptrap

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...

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  • Corporate Governance
22 Mar 2021
3 min to read

Corporate Purpose: Sustainability as a Game Changer

Guido Ferrarini

An increasing number of firms make reference to the pursuit of environmental and social goals in the definition of their purpose. This raises important issues with respect to the way in which the...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
17 Mar 2021
2 min to read

Social Enterprises in Asia

Ernest Lim

Social enterprises are on the rise worldwide. A recent survey of 1,030 social enterprises found that they generated more than €6.06 billion in revenue, impacted more than 871 million beneficiaries,...

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