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07 Aug 2019
2 min to read

Regulatory and Market Challenges of Initial Coin Offerings

Ricardo Correia

In the aftermath of the 2007–2009 financial crisis, a series of alternative financing solutions have emerged, of which one of the most successful are Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). ICOs are a way to...

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  • Corporate Governance
29 Jul 2019
2 min to read

Voting at Meeting of Spanish Listed Companies: the Rules on Presuming and Deducting Votes

Javier García de Enterría

The procedures followed by listed companies to determine the number and outcome of the votes cast at the shareholders' general meetings have received little attention in legal literature. In Spain,...

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  • Corporate Governance
24 Jul 2019
3 min to read

Politics of Corporate Governance

Manabu Matsunaka

What drives changes in corporate law? Certainly, corporate law tends to change toward increasing economic efficiency. In fact, corporate laws all over the world have converged in many important...
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  • Corporate Governance
18 Jul 2019
2 min to read

Centros@20 Series: The Rise and Fall of Regulatory Competition in Corporate Insolvency Law in the European Union

Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College

In a recent paper, I discuss the rise and fall of regulatory competition in corporate insolvency law in the European Union. The rise is closely associated with the European Insolvency Regulation (EIR...

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  • Corporate Governance
12 Jul 2019
2 min to read

Centros@20 Series: Regulatory Competition in European Company Law. Where Do We Stand Twenty Years after Centros

Stefano Lombardo

The twentieth anniversary of the important judgment of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the Centros case of 9 March 1999 is an opportunity to reassess its impact on developments of freedom of...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • M&A
11 Jul 2019
3 min to read

The Rise of Common Ownership: A Call to Arms for Competition Policy?

Anna Tzanaki

Is common ownership the Doomsday Machine for the operation of free markets, competition and capitalism as we know it? An observer of cutting-edge law and economics literature may indeed tend to...
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  • Corporate Governance
10 Jul 2019
4 min to read

Centros@20 Series: Two Comments on Elizabeth Pollman’s 'Tech, Regulatory Arbitrage, and Limits'

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law

In a paper to be published in European Business Organization Law Review’s special issue on Centros@20 (summarised here), Elizabeth Pollman provides an answer to the questions of why we don’t see more...

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  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
09 Jul 2019
3 min to read

The Case Against the Implementation of Loyalty Shares in Spain

Aurelio Gurrea Martínez

The Spanish Ministry of Economy has recently released a new bill that, among other aspects, proposes an amendment of the Spanish Companies Act to allow listed companies to adopt loyalty shares. These...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
08 Jul 2019
1 min to read

Call for Papers: Technological Transformations and European Business Law

Iris H-Y Chiu

The European Business Law Review issues a call for papers to appear in a special Issue in second half of 2020. Our theme is 'Technological Transformations and European Business Law'. We are...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
05 Jul 2019
3 min to read

The EU Cross-border Distribution of Funds: The Implications for Alternative Investment Funds

Tim Lewis | Jane Tuckley | Phil Bartram | Stephanie Briggs | Sam Kay | Aaron Stocks | Jeremy Elmore | Will Normand

A new package of measures amending the existing regimes governing the cross-border distribution of funds is due to become law shortly: a Directive (the CBD Directive) will amend the existing regimes...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
01 Jul 2019
3 min to read

A Legal and Regulatory Framework for Governance of Cryptoassets

Apolline Blandin | Michel Rauchs | Hatim Hussain

In the inaugural Global Cryptoasset Regulatory Landscape Study, a team of researchers at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School, have compared and contrasted various...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
28 Jun 2019
5 min to read

The Upcoming Reform of the Japanese Companies Act

Gen Goto | Nobuko Matsumoto

In February 2019 the Legislative Council of Japan (‘Hosei-shingi-kai’) submitted to the Minister of Justice its final report on the proposal for a reform of the Japanese Companies Act, in response to...

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  • Corporate Governance
27 Jun 2019
3 min to read

Shareholder stewardship: A case of (re)-embedding the institutional investors and the corporation?

Dionysia Katelouzou

Institutional investors (that is, mutual funds, managed investment trusts, insurance companies, pension funds and alternative collective investment vehicles) steadily grow their share of publicly...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
26 Jun 2019
4 min to read

Private Benefits and Corporate Investment and Financing Decisions: The Case of Corporate Philanthropy

Ronald Masulis | Syed Walid Reza

What is the (opportunity) cost of private benefits of control? Using dollar cost of corporate giving to measure private benefit of control, we show in our study ‘Private Benefits and Corporate...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
24 Jun 2019
9 min to read

Centros@20 Series: The Illusion of Motion: Corporate (Im-)mobility and the Failed Promise of Centros

Carsten Gerner-Beuerle | Federico M. Mucciarelli | Edmund Schuster | Mathias Siems

It has now been twenty years since the European Court of Justice delivered its landmark Centros­ decision, followed by a string of cases similarly supportive of corporate mobility. In theory, these...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Regulation
21 Jun 2019
2 min to read

Empirical Studies on Gender Diverse Boards: Be Aware of the Value Bias in Corporate Debt

Jan Riepe | Philip Yang

Gender Balancing Laws are popular means for regulators to increase the female representation on corporate boards. Norway was among the first countries to introduce a mandatory board gender quota back...

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  • Corporate Governance
20 Jun 2019
3 min to read

What Corporate Veil?

Joshua Macey

Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (WW Norton & Co 2018) is provocative and important, and it is filled with stories documenting the Supreme Court...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Tax
14 Jun 2019
3 min to read

Centros@20 Series: Tech, Regulatory Arbitrage, and Limits

Elizabeth Pollman

Why don’t we see more regulatory arbitrage? What constrains it? Regulatory arbitrage refers to structuring activity to take advantage of gaps or differences in regulations or laws. Examples include...

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  • Corporate Governance
13 Jun 2019
3 min to read

Blockchain and public companies: The coming revolution in share ownership transparency, proxy-voting, and corporate governance?

Federico Panisi | Ross P Buckley | Douglas W Arner

Once upon a time, in a far simpler world, corporations and their shareholders had a direct relationship with each other. Corporations could follow any change in shareholdings directly from the share...

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  • Corporate Governance
12 Jun 2019
4 min to read

Cyberbullying: The Blind Spot of the Online Harms White Paper

Ronen Perry

In 2006, the world was shocked when thirteen-year-old Megan Meier committed suicide after being told, by a fake user on the social networking platform Myspace, that the world would be better off...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Governance
11 Jun 2019
1 min to read

Video: Deference to Delaware Corporate Law Precedents and Shareholder Wealth—An Empirical Analysis

Jens Dammann

Delaware is home to more than half of all public corporations, and its market share among initial public offerings is even higher. Not surprisingly, therefore, an extensive body of literature is...

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