Subject

Law

Research Interests

Jennifer Payne is a Professor in Corporate Finance law (funded by Travers Smith). Her research interests are in corporate law generally, with an emphasis on corporate finance law.

Teaching Interests

Company Law and Trusts at undergraduate level and a number of corporate options on the BCL/MJur course, principally Corporate Finance law, Principles of Financial Regulation and Corporate Insolvency law.

Recent publications
  • Corporate Finance Law: Principles and Policy (Hart Publishing, 2011) (with Louise Gullifer)
  • “Private Equity and its Regulation in Europe” (2011) European Business Organization Law Review 559-585
  • “Schemes of Arrangement, Takeovers and Minority Shareholder Protection” (2011) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 67-97
  • “Minority Shareholder Protection in takeovers: A UK perspective” (2011) European Company and Financial Law Review 145-173
  • “Company Contracts and Director’s authority” (2010) LMCLQ 187-194
  • “The Role of European Regulation and Model Acts in Company Law” in U Bernitz and W-G Ringe (eds) Company Law and Economic Protectionism (OUP, 2010)
  • Palmer’s Company Law Annotated Guide to the Companies Act 2006 (Sweet & Maxwell, gen ed G Morse, various contributors) (1st ed, 2007, 2nd ed, 2009)
  • “Intermediated Securities and the Right to Vote in the UK” in L Gullifer and J Payne (eds) Intermediated Securities: legal problems and Practical Issues (Hart Publishing, 2009)
  • “Legal Capital in the UK following the Companies Act 2006” in J Armour and J Payne (eds) Rationality in Company Law: Essays in Honour of DD Prentice (Hart Publishing, 2009)
  • “In defence of the UK private limited company” (2008) European Company Law 220
  • “The Way Forward In European Securities Regulation: Regulatory Competition or Mandatory Regulation?” in S Weatherill (ed) Better Regulation (Hart Publishing, 2007)
  • “Recipient Liability for Unlawful Dividends” (2007) LMCLQ 7-14
  • “The characterization of fixed and floating charges” in J Getzler and J Payne (eds) Company Charges: Spectrum and Beyond (OUP, 2006) (with Louise Gullifer);
  • “Sections 459-461 Companies Act 1985: The Future of Shareholder Protection” (2005) CLJ 647-677
  • “Company contracts and vitiating factors: developments in the law on directors' authority” (2005) LMCLQ 447-466 (with Dan Prentice).  
Department Information

www.law.ox.ac.uk

Contact Information

Email: Professor Jennifer Payne

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