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Professor Eilis Ferran

Affiliation AIIFL Academic Advisory Board Member, AIIFL Visiting Fellow (30 March 2025–April 2025) and Professor of Company & Securities Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
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Journal Articles

  1. Reconciling Shareholder Primacy and the Interests of People and Planet (2025) 141 Law Quarterly Review 2025
  2. The Regulation of Corporate Governance in European Financial Market Infrastructures: A Critique (2024) 21 European Company and Financial Law Review 1-38 2024
  3. International Competitiveness and Financial Regulators’ Mandates: Coming Around Again in the UK (2023) 9 Journal of Financial Regulation 30–54 2023
  4. Shareholder Engagement and Custody Chains (2022) 23 European Business Organization Law Review 507–539 2022
  5. Revisiting Legal Capital (2019) 20 EBOR 521-545 2019
  6. The UK as a Third Country Actor in EU Financial Services Regulation (2017) 3 Journal of Financial Regulation 40-65 2017
  7. Corporate Mobility and Company Law (2016) Modern Law Review 813-839 2016
  8. The Existential Search of the European Banking Authority (2016) European Business Organization Law Review 2016
  9. The European Single Supervisory Mechanism (2013) 13 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 255-285 2013
  10. Regulatory Lessons from the Payment Protection Insurance Mis-selling Scandal in the UK (2012) 13 European Business Organization Law Review 247-270 2012
  11. 'Crisis-Driven EU Financial Regulatory Reform' SSRN abstract_id=2028003 SSRN abstract_id=2028003 2012
  12. 'The New Mandate for the Supervision of Financial Services Conduct' Current Legal Problems Current Legal Problems (2012) 2012
  13. New Regulation of Remuneration in the Financial Sector in the EU (2012) 9 European Company and Financial Law Review 1-34 2012
  14. 'The Reorganisation of Financial Services Supervision in the UK: An Interim Progress Report' University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No.… Read more University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 49/2011 2011
  15. The Break-up of the Financial Services Authority (2011) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 455-480 2011
  16. Directors' liability for unlawful dividends (2011) 70 CLJ 321-326 2011
  17. After the crisis: the regulation of hedge funds and private equity in the EU (2011) 12 European Business Organization Law Review 379-414 2011
  18. Corporate Attribution and the Directing Mind and Will (2011) 127 LQR 239-259 2011
  19. '˜Can Soft Law Bodies Be Effective? The Special Case of the European Systemic Risk Board"' [2010] ELR 751 - 776 [2010] ELR 751 - 776 2010
  20. 'Are US-Style Investor Suits Coming to the UK?' [2009] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 315-348 [2009] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 315-348 2009
  21. 'Capital Market Openness After Financial Turmoil' Working paper Working paper 2009
  22. What’s Wrong with Rights Issues (2008) 2 Law and Financial Markets Review 523 – 536 2008
  23. 'Capital Market Competitiveness and Enforcement' Working paper Working paper 2008
  24. 'Non-Enforcement-led Public Oversight of Financial and Corporate Governance Disclosures and of Auditors' [2008] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 191 –… Read more [2008] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 191 – 224 2008
  25. 'Transatlantic Financial Services Regulatory Dialogue' European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR) European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR) (2006), 7 : 647-673 2007
  26. 'Cross-border Offers of Securities in the EU: The Standard Life Flotation' [2007] European Company and Financial Law Review… Read more [2007] European Company and Financial Law Review 461-490 2006
  27. The Place for Creditor Protection on the Agenda for Modernisation of Company law in the European Union (2006) 3 European Company and Financial Law Review 178 2006

Books

  1. Principles of Corporate Finance Law 2023
  2. Brexit and Financial Services 2018
  3. The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation 2015
  4. The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis 2012

Chapters in Books

  1. Financial Market Infrastructure: Law and Regulation 2022
  2. Capital Market Union and Beyond 2019
  3. Legal Conference Book 2018
  4. Between Flexibility and Disintegration: The State of EU Law Today 2016
  5. From Monetary Union to Banking Union, on the way to Capital Markets Union 2015
  6. European Banking Union 2015
  7. Europe's Place in Global Financial Governance 2014
  8. Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation 2014
  9. Rethinking Financial Regulation and Supervision in Times of Crisis 2012
  10. Beyond the Established Orders 2010
  11. Festschrift für Klaus J Hopt zum 70 Geburtstag 2010
  12. Palmer’s Company Law (looseleaf) 2010
  13. Perspectives in Financial Regulation 2009
  14. Rationality in Company Law: Essays in Honour of DD Prentice 2009

Other Works

  1. "Response to the European Commission's Report on the Application of the Takeover Bids Directive" (European Company Law Experts, Jul 2014) University of… Read more 2014
  2. "The Future of European Company Law" (European Company Law Experts, Jul 2014) Columbia Law and Economics Research Paper No.… Read more 2014
  3. Company Law and Economic Protectionism 2011
  4. "Are the Lamfalussy Regulatory Networks Working Successfully?" (European Policy Forum, Jun 2007) 2007
  5. "Regulation of Private Equity-Backed Leveraged Buyout Activity in Europe" (ECGI Law Working Paper, May 2007) 084/2007 2007
  1. The Creditor Modified Duty in Hong Kong after Sequana and Foo
    AIIFL Lectures & Seminars
    As SPEAKER with Professor Say Goo (Chair) Recording
  2. Reconciling Shareholder Primacy and the Interests of People and Planet
    As SPEAKER with Professor Say Goo (Chair)
  3. Eurozone Banking Union and the EU Single Market – Differentiated Integration or Steps Towards Disintegration?
    As SPEAKER