Oxford Business Law Blog

As part of efforts to mitigate the adverse economic effects of the pandemic since the outbreak of COVID-19, financial sector supervisory authorities have taken measures to restrict capital...

Over the last 12 months, there have been important developments in Australia in relation to climate change risks. Australian regulators have set a clear expectation that entities and their officers...

Sustainability is currently one of the highest-ranking issues on the social and political agenda. As corporations have imposed important externalities on the environment, proposals to rein in their...

Recently, the Singapore Legal Opinion on Climate Change was launched; so was a White Paper that elaborates on the Opinion. I will first provide an overview of the Opinion and then I will discuss what...

Less than a decade ago, ExxonMobil was the most valuable company in the world. Yet in June 2021, Engine No. 1—a newly launched impact hedge fund holding only 0.02% of Exxon’s shares—made history by...

In the midst of the ongoing Sino-US tensions, a remarkable flashpoint was the massive corporate scandal of Luckin Coffee (Luckin). Luckin, a Cayman Islands incorporated, NASDAQ-listed Chinese company...

In the recent 5th OBLB Annual Conference on ‘Business Law and the Transition to a Net Zero Carbon Economy’, the panel for Day Three (Topic: Climate Change in the Boardroom) took up the director’s...

The Dodd-Frank Act recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, with commentators, policymakers, and scholars joining the celebration by discussing the achievements of the sweeping post-crisis financial...

On June 3, US President Joe Biden issued an unprecedented National Security Study Memorandum designating corruption as a core US national security interest. In that Memorandum, President Biden stated...

The world is struggling to address the pressing challenge of climate change. As efforts for comprehensive regulation fall short in some leading countries, including the United States, many advocates...

To shed light on the role that academic research plays in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) rulemaking, we examine the SEC’s patterns of consumption of academic research from 2007...

The median number of subsidiaries of the 50 largest companies in the MSCII World Index is 439, reflecting the prevalence of the corporate group as the most common form of business organization among...

On April 21st, the European Commission published yet another package of corporate sustainability regulation proposals. Possibly the most awaited element of this release concerns the review of the EU’...

Across the world, the focus on effective risk management has increased over the past two decades as major corporations have experienced risk management failures due to a variety of factors, including...

In any large enterprise—whether a major corporation or large government agency—indicia of corruption can be difficult to find. Unlike money laundering, which typically requires frequent infusions of...

Most public bids in the UK market are implemented by scheme of arrangement. When it becomes effective, a scheme of arrangement results in the transfer of all of the shares of the target to the bidder...

The requirement to adopt one of three options for workforce engagement specified in Provision 5 of the 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code (‘UKCGC’) is an important development in terms of integrating...