Oxford Business Law Blog

As discussed in an earlier post, private ordering theories assume that the threat of a bad reputation incentivizes merchants to act honestly. This sort of governance by reputation, however, requires...

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...

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...

Trade relationships have gained abundant political momentum and media coverage in the last decade. The enduring Brexit saga is a case in point. However, this blogpost intends to adopt a broader,...

Foreign anti-corruption laws present a puzzle: why would the government of one country care to prevent corruption in another? Such laws impede the business activities of the country enacting them in...

Private ordering theorists put a great deal of weight on reputation to enforce honest behavior among market participants. They assume that the fear of getting a bad reputation and consequently being...

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...

In the eagerly awaited decision of Llloyd v Google LLC, the Court of Appeal has provided helpful clarification on the circumstances when individuals can claim damages for breaches of their rights in...

What good can a corporate insolvency regime do in the modern economy? The question bears asking because the environment in which distressed companies find themselves is so markedly different from the...

Based on current projections, China will be one of the world’s largest exporters of capital in the near future, a first in modern history for a nondemocratic state. The ‘China, Law and Development’ (...

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...

The decade since the financial crisis has witnessed a proliferation of various ‘light touch’ financial restructuring techniques in the form of so-called pre-insolvency proceedings. These proceedings...

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 my new paper 'Revisiting Legal Capital', I argue for the UK to revisit the legal capital (maintenance of capital) doctrine. Leaving the EU could present an opportunity, but to reform legal capital...

Successfully restructuring a business in financial distress requires that there be sufficient remaining value to justify saving it. Traditional corporate rescue and restructuring laws were focused on...

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...

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...

EU Regulation 2015/848 on insolvency proceedings (Recast) laid down new rules on the debtor’s ‘centre of main interests’ (COMI). However, one may doubt that these efforts have succeeded. Moreover, ‘...