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Room: D3, St Catharine's

Professor of Company and Securities Law

FBA, PhD, MA, Solicitor

Interests

Corporate finance law. General company law. Financial regulation.

Research centres and interest groups

CV / Biography

Professor Eilís Ferran, FBA PhD is Professor of Company & Securities Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Professorial Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. She is also the Provost of the Gates-Cambridge Trust, which provides scholarships for postgraduate study at Cambridge funded by a major donation from the Gates Foundation.  

 

Between 2015 and 2021 she was the University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional and International Relations. As Pro-Vice-Chancellor she had strategic responsibility for Cambridge University’s staff policies and significant international academic partnerships. She led the modernisation of career paths, co-ordinated the University’s response to covid as an employer, and was instrumental in the development of the University’s Strategic Partnerships Office. Between 2012 and 2015 she served as Chair of the University’s Law Faculty.

 

In her research, Eilís has written extensively on UK, EU and international financial regulation, company law and corporate finance law.  Her publications include Brexit and Financial Services (Hart Publishing, 2017 co-authored), The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (OUP, 2015, co-edited) and The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (CUP 2012, co-authored). Eilis founded the University of Cambridge LLM Corporate Finance law paper and has taught on it over many years.  With co-authors Elizabeth Howell (London School of Economics) and Felix Steffek (Cambridge), she has recently completed a new edition of the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance Law (OUP, 2023). Eilis has advised UK Parliamentary committees and served as an academic member of the Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority.

 

Eilís is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple. She is an independent non-executive director of Euroclear Holding SA/NV and Euroclear SA/NV, and is the Chair of the Group Nomination and Governance Committee.  She is also a non-executive director of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge.  

 

 

Publications

 

Books

Principles of Corporate Finance Law (with Elizabeth Howell; Felix Steffek) (OUP, 2023) 3rd Edition

Brexit and Financial Services (with Kern Alexander, Catherine Barnard, Andrew Lang, Niamh Moloney) (Hart Publishing, 2018)

Co-Author/s:
Kern Alexander, Catherine Barnard, Andrew Lang, Niamh Moloney
Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9781509915804
Published Jan 2018

The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (with Niamh Moloney, and Jennifer Payne) (eds) (OUP, 2015)

Co-Author/s:
Niamh Moloney, and Jennifer Payne
ISBN 13:
978-0-19-968720-6
Published Aug 2015

The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (with N Moloney, JA Hill, JC Coffee) (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Building an EU Securities Market (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

ISBN:
0521847222
ISBN 13:
9780521847223
Published Nov 2004

Regulating Financial Services and Markets in the 21st Century (with Goodhart (ed)) (eds) (Hart Publishing, 2001)

Co-Author/s:
Goodhart (ed)
Publisher:
ISBN:
1841132799
ISBN 13:
9781841132792
Published Sep 2001

Articles

"International Competitiveness and Financial Regulators’ Mandates: Coming Around Again in the UK" (2023) 9 Journal of Financial Regulation 30–54

Citation:
(2023) 9 Journal of Financial Regulation 30–54
DOI:
10.1093/jfr/fjad001
Published: Mar 2023

"Shareholder Engagement and Custody Chains" (2022) 23 European Business Organization Law Review 507–539

Citation:
(2022) 23 European Business Organization Law Review 507–539
DOI:
10.1007/s40804-022-00256-0
Published: Mar 2022

"Revisiting Legal Capital" (2019) 20 EBOR 521-545

Citation:
(2019) 20 EBOR 521-545
Published: Sep 2019

"The UK as a Third Country Actor in EU Financial Services Regulation" (2017) 3 Journal of Financial Regulation 40-65

Citation:
(2017) 3 Journal of Financial Regulation 40-65
Published: Sep 2017

"Corporate Mobility and Company Law " (2016) Modern Law Review 813-839

Citation:
(2016) Modern Law Review 813-839
Published: Jul 2016

"The Existential Search of the European Banking Authority" (2016) European Business Organization Law Review

Citation:
(2016) European Business Organization Law Review
Published: Jul 2016

"The European Single Supervisory Mechanism" (2013) 13 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 255-285

Co-Author/s:
Valia SG Babis
Citation:
(2013) 13 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 255-285
Published: Aug 2013

"Regulatory Lessons from the Payment Protection Insurance Mis-selling Scandal in the UK" (2012) 13 European Business Organization Law Review 247-270

Citation:
(2012) 13 European Business Organization Law Review 247-270
Published: Jul 2012

"Crisis-Driven EU Financial Regulatory Reform" SSRN abstract_id=2028003

Citation:
SSRN abstract_id=2028003
Published: Jul 2012

"The New Mandate for the Supervision of Financial Services Conduct" Current Legal Problems (2012)

Citation:
Current Legal Problems (2012)
Published: Jul 2012

"New Regulation of Remuneration in the Financial Sector in the EU" (2012) 9 European Company and Financial Law Review 1-34

Citation:
(2012) 9 European Company and Financial Law Review 1-34
Published: Feb 2012

"The Reorganisation of Financial Services Supervision in the UK: An Interim Progress Report" University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 49/2011

Citation:
University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 49/2011
Published: Nov 2011

"The Break-up of the Financial Services Authority" (2011) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 455-480

Citation:
(2011) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 455-480
Published: Oct 2011

"Directors' liability for unlawful dividends" (2011) 70 CLJ 321-326

Citation:
(2011) 70 CLJ 321-326
Published: Oct 2011

"After the crisis: the regulation of hedge funds and private equity in the EU" (2011) 12 European Business Organization Law Review 379-414

Citation:
(2011) 12 European Business Organization Law Review 379-414
Published: Jun 2011

"Corporate Attribution and the Directing Mind and Will" (2011) 127 LQR 239-259

Citation:
(2011) 127 LQR 239-259
Published: Apr 2011

"˜Can Soft Law Bodies Be Effective? The Special Case of the European Systemic Risk Board"" [2010] ELR 751 - 776

Co-Author/s:
Kern Alexander
Citation:
[2010] ELR 751 - 776
Published: Dec 2010

"Are US-Style Investor Suits Coming to the UK?" [2009] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 315-348

Citation:
[2009] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 315-348
Published: Oct 2009

"Capital Market Openness After Financial Turmoil" Working paper

Citation:
Working paper
Published: Jul 2009

"What’s Wrong with Rights Issues" (2008) 2 Law and Financial Markets Review 523 – 536

Citation:
(2008) 2 Law and Financial Markets Review 523 – 536
Published: Oct 2008

"Capital Market Competitiveness and Enforcement" Working paper

Citation:
Working paper
Published: Apr 2008

"Non-Enforcement-led Public Oversight of Financial and Corporate Governance Disclosures and of Auditors" [2008] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 191 – 224

Co-Author/s:
K Cearns
Citation:
[2008] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 191 – 224
Published: Mar 2008

"Transatlantic Financial Services Regulatory Dialogue" European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR) (2006), 7 : 647-673

Co-Author/s:
K Alexander, HE Jackson and N Moloney
Citation:
European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR) (2006), 7 : 647-673
Published: Jan 2007

"Cross-border Offers of Securities in the EU: The Standard Life Flotation" [2007] European Company and Financial Law Review 461-490

Citation:
[2007] European Company and Financial Law Review 461-490
Published: Dec 2006

"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

Citation:
(2006) 3 European Company and Financial Law Review 178
Published: Jul 2006

"Financial Assistance: Changing Policy Perceptions but Static Law" [2004] Cambridge Law Journal 225 - 243

"The Role of the Shareholder in Internal Corporate Governance: Enabling Shareholders to Make Better-informed Decisions" [2003] European Business Organization Law Review 491 - 516

Citation:
[2003] European Business Organization Law Review 491 - 516
Published: Dec 2003

"Examining the UK Experience in Adopting the Single Financial Regulator Model" (2003) 28 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 257-307

Citation:
(2003) 28 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 257-307
Published: Apr 2003

"Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in the UK Financial Sector" [2002] Civil Justice Quarterly 135-155 (also published in a report to the Korean Stock Exchange, Self-Regulation in the Korean Securities Market Korean Securities Law Association, 2002)

Citation:
[2002] Civil Justice Quarterly 135-155 (also published in a report to the Korean Stock Exchange, Self-Regulation in the Korean Securities Market Korean Securities Law Association, 2002)
Published: Mar 2002

"Corporate Law Codes and Social Norms - Finding the Right Regulatory Combination and Institutional Structure" [2001] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 381-409

Citation:
[2001] Journal of Corporate Law Studies 381-409
Published: Dec 2001

"Company Law Reform in the UK' (2001) 5 Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law 516-568" (2001) 5 Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law 516-568

Citation:
(2001) 5 Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law 516-568
Published: Jun 2001

Book Chapters

"The Roles and Risks of European Central Securities Depositories" (with Eleanore Hickman) in J-H Binder, P Saguato (ed(s)), Financial Market Infrastructure: Law and Regulation , 2022)

Published Nov 2022

"A legal framework for financial market integration: resetting the agenda beyond the sectoral single rulebook" in Franklin Allen, Ester Faia, Michael Haliassos and Katja Langenbucher (ed(s)), Capital Market Union and Beyond, 2019)

Published Dec 2019

"Recognition of third country equivalence in EU financial law – an obstacle or a way forward for future EU-UK bilateral arrangements?" in European Central Bank (ed(s)), Legal Conference Book (ECB, 2018)

Published Sep 2018

"European Banking Union and the EU Single Financial Market: More Differentiated Integration, or Disintegration", Between Flexibility and Disintegration: The State of EU Law Today (Edward Elgar, 2016)

Published Jun 2016

"The co-existence of National and EU law and the ne bis in idem principle" in ECB (ed(s)), From Monetary Union to Banking Union, on the way to Capital Markets Union (European Central Bank , 2015)

Published Dec 2015

"European Banking Union: Imperfect, But It Can Work" in D Busch and G Ferrarini (ed(s)), European Banking Union (OUP, 2015)

Published Nov 2015

"EU Financial Supervision in the Context of Global Financial Governance", Europe's Place in Global Financial Governance (Oxford University Press, 2014)

ISBN 13:
9781138803497
Published Nov 2014

"Institutional Design: The Choice for National Systems", Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (OUP , 2014)

Co-Author/s:
Niamh Moloney, Eilis Ferran, Jennifer Payne
Published Jul 2014

"EU Financial Supervision in the Context of Global Financial Governance", Europe's Place in Global Financial Governance (OUP, 2013)

Published Dec 2013

"Crisis driven regulatory reform" (with E Ferran, N Moloney, Jennifer G Hill, John C Coffee), The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 1-110

Pages:
1-110
Co-Author/s:
E Ferran, N Moloney, Jennifer G Hill, John C Coffee
Published Nov 2012

"Understanding the New Institutional Architecture of EU Financial Market Supervision" (with G Ferrarini, KJ Hopt and E Wymeersch), Rethinking Financial Regulation and Supervision in Times of Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2012)

Co-Author/s:
G Ferrarini, KJ Hopt and E Wymeersch
Published Jul 2012

"Capital Market Openness After Financial Turmoil" (with P Koutrakos and M Evans), Beyond the Established Orders (Hart Publishing, 2010)

Publisher:
Co-Author/s:
P Koutrakos and M Evans
Published Sep 2010

"Three Recent Developments in Auditors’ Liability", Festschrift für Klaus J Hopt zum 70 Geburtstag (Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2010)

Publisher:
Published Aug 2010

"Share Capital" (with G Morse), Palmer’s Company Law (looseleaf) (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010)

Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9780420446602
Co-Author/s:
G Morse
Published Mar 2010

"Financial Assistance" (with G Morse), Palmer's Company Law (looseleaf) (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010)

Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9780420446602
Co-Author/s:
G Morse
Published Mar 2010

"Principles-based, risk-based regulation and effective enforcement" (with M Tison, H De Wulf, C Van der Elst and R Steennot), Perspectives in Financial Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 427-448

Pages:
427-448
ISBN 13:
978-0-521-51570-2
Co-Author/s:
M Tison, H De Wulf, C Van der Elst and R Steennot
Published Sep 2009

"Enforcement of Insider Dealing Laws" (with J Armour and J Payne), Rationality in Company Law: Essays in Honour of DD Prentice (Hart Publishing, 2009), pp. 57 - 70

Publisher:
Pages:
57 - 70
ISBN 13:
9781841138060
Co-Author/s:
J Armour and J Payne
Published Feb 2009

Book Reviews

Company Law and Economic Protectionism (2011) 12 EBOR 681-684

Co-Author/s:
Ulf Bernitz and Wolf-Georg Ringe
Published Dec 2011

Conference Papers

"conference location map" (http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/faculty-resources/summary/conference-location/11011)

Co-Author/s:
ferran
Conference:
http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/faculty-resources/summary/conference-location/11011
Published: Nov 2012

Reports

Response to the European Commission's Report on the Application of the Takeover Bids Directive

Co-Author/s:
Böckli, Peter and Davies, Paul L. and Ferran, Eilis and Ferrarini, Guido A. and Garrido Garcia, José M. and Hopt, Klaus J. and Pietrancosta, Alain and Pistor, Katharina and Skog, Rolf and Soltysinski, Stanislaw and Winter, Jaap W. and Wymeersch, Eddy,
Reference Number:
University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 5/2014
Body / Institution:
European Company Law Experts
Published: Jul 2014

The Future of European Company Law

Co-Author/s:
Böckli, Peter and Davies, Paul L. and Ferrarini, Guido A. and Garrido Garcia, José M. and Hopt, Klaus J. and Pietrancosta, Alain and Pistor, Katharina and Skog, Rolf and Soltysinski, Stanislaw and Winter, Jaap W. and Wymeersch, Eddy
Reference Number:
Columbia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 420
Body / Institution:
European Company Law Experts
Published: Jul 2014

Are the Lamfalussy Regulatory Networks Working Successfully?

Co-Author/s:
D Green
Body / Institution:
European Policy Forum
Published: Jun 2007

Regulation of Private Equity-Backed Leveraged Buyout Activity in Europe

Reference Number:
084/2007
Body / Institution:
ECGI Law Working Paper
Published: May 2007