The members of the corporate and financial law group routinely engage in policy work by advising governments, central banks, international organisations, and the EU institutions. Here are some examples of our recent public engagement:
Professor Julia Black has a range of external activities including serving as an external member of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Committee and of the Bank’s Financial Markets Infrastructure Board. Professor Jo Braithwaite and Dr David Murphy recently hosted the CFTC Commissioner, Kristin N Johnson with respect to examining the regulation of financial market infrastructure in the fintech era. Professor Braithwaite is an Associate Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. Dr Suren Gomstian has been cited in the Financial Times, by the United States Court of Appeals (4th Circuit), and by the Delaware Court of Chancery. Dr Alperen Gözlügöl has engaged with Net-Zero Tracker (an NGO on climate action) with respect to his research findings on private companies and climate change. Dr Elizabeth Howell was (until Brexit) a member of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s Consultative Working Group on Corporate Finance. Dr Howell has met with the Financial Conduct Authority concerning its policy work regarding its review of the short selling regime. Professor David Kershaw is a Senior Researcher with LSE’s Financial Markets Group, a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and is an Associate Member of Cornerstone Chambers. He has advised the Big Innovation Society on the company law aspects of its Purposeful Company Project, and together with Professor Julia Black, has provided a written submission and given evidence before the Parliamentary Committee on Banking Standards. Professor Eva Micheler is an expert on FinTech and the application of DLT technologies in financial markets. She was a co-investigator of the UK EPSRC project 'Blockchain Technology for Algorithmic Regulation and Compliance' which studied the usefulness of blockchain/distributed ledger technology for financial services regulation. She is a member of the Investor Protection and Intermediaries Standing Committee at the European Securities and Markets Authority and was a member of the steering group at the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills regarding a project exploring the intermediated shareholding model. Professor Micheler’s work has been cited by the Supreme Court. Professor Niamh Moloney serves as an independent non-executive director of the board of the Central Bank of Ireland and as a member of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities. She was Chair of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare, established by the government of Ireland in 2021 to review the state’s taxation and welfare systems, which reported in 2022 (Foundations for the Future). Dr Philipp Paech has been appointed member of the joint project of UNIDROIT and the Hague Conference on Private International Law on cross-border holdings and transactions of digital assets and tokens. Dr Paech also served as a chair of the EU Commission’s expert group on regulatory obstacles to financial innovation 2017-2019. The Group’s ‘30 Recommendations on Regulation, Innovation and Finance’ were published by DG FISMA in December 2019 and subsequently became one of the foundational documents for the EU Digital Finance Strategy, on the basis of which several EU instruments (MiCA, DORA, Pilot Regime, AI Act, DMA, etc) were developed and enacted. Professor Sarah Paterson retains a consultancy with Slaughter and May, where she was formerly a partner. She is also a member of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association (including its Technical Committee). Edmund Schuster is Counsel for the Corporate/M&A team of Baker & MacKenzie, Austria. Professor Dame Sarah Worthington is a Deputy High Court Judge, an Academic Member of South Square Chambers, Gray’s Inn, and has a number of governance roles, including with the British Museum.