The prestigious Law and Finance Seminar Series brings to Oxford leading scholars from around the world working at the forefront of the intersection of the law and finance fields to present work in progress.
Recent seminar speakers have included Randall Thomas (Vanderbilt University), Jeffrey Gordon (Columbia Law School), Brian Cheffins (Cambridge University); Luca Enriques (University of Bologna and Consob); Julian Franks (London Business School); Henry Hansmann (Yale Law School); Gerard Hertig (ETH Zurich); Enrico Perotti (Amsterdam Business School); Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School); and Alan Schwartz (Yale Law School)
The Law & Finance Senior Practitioner Lectures provide a forum for interaction between Faculty, students and distinguished practitioners, policymakers and business leaders working at the intersection of law and finance. Lectures are given on a wide variety of subjects including, amongst many others, financial markets and regulation, insolvency and debt restructuring and financial law and development.
Recent speakers have included Dr Frederique Dahan (The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development); Jeffrey Golden (Allen & Overy and the LSE), Hector Sants (FSA) and Chris Hale (Travers Smith).
The annual Oxford Private Equity Forum brings together private equity practitioners, investment bankers, lawyers and senior executives to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing global investors within the private equity industry. Previous speakers have included: Jon Moulton, Managing Partner, Alchemy; Adrian Beecroft, Chief Investment Officer, Apax Partners; Nadim Barakat, Managing Director, Customized Fund Investment Group, Credit Suisse; and Richard Sharp, Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs.
Established in November 2005 and funded by the Hundred Group, the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation promotes effective policies for the taxation of business, both through multidisciplinary research into the aims, practice and consequences of those taxes that affect business, plus a variety of other activities. Each year, the Centre hosts a symposium at which Oxford based staff, the Centre's 40 international research fellows, leading business taxation academics from around the world, government officials and business executives get together to debate current issues in taxation.