Oxford Business Law Blog

For founders of companies, appealing to funders can be everything – and that often means projecting a masculine image. In a recent article, we coined the term ‘venture bearding’ to describe this...

Our paper on startups shows that European company law is still anchored to last century ideas about growth and economic development. We hope that the Italian experience and our proposals can be of...

In recent years, managers, regulators, and politicians, have often complained about the alleged short-term pressure exercised by the stock market on listed companies. Loyalty shares are probably the...

Technology will soon force broad changes in how we conceive of corporate liability. The law’s doctrines for evaluating corporate misconduct date from a time when human beings ran corporations. Today...

The Business & Liability Research Network (BLRN)—a partnership between the Company Law department and the Business Studies department of the Leiden Law School—is launching its call for proposals...

In a chapter of the book ‘The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions’ (L Enriques and T Tröger eds, CUP 2019), I explain why some controlling shareholders in bad-law jurisdictions ‘generously...

It is settled case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that parent companies can be fined for competition law infringements committed by their subsidiaries and that successor...

Centros and the cases following it had a profound transformational effect on European company law. While it has so far not resulted in fully-fledged regulatory competition for publicly traded...

A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia seeks to reconceptualise the role of shareholders in listed companies as one that should include fiduciary duties, particularly the duty...

In our article, we aim to analyse the issue of non-financial information, as ultimately regulated by the European Directive 2014/95/EU, and its implementation by each European Member State, with an...

On 27 June 2019, the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law hosted the 2nd SMU–3CL Cambridge Roundtable on Corporate Insolvency Law. This roundtable is an initiative jointly organised by the...

The current debate on the competitive risks of common ownership has focused on whether index investments soften competition among portfolio companies. However, even if one concedes, in arguendo, that...

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...

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...

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...

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,...