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Centre for Commercial and Corporate Law

About us

Members also deliver the LLM in Commercial Law, a programme which offers unrivalled opportunities to study across a range of modules taught by leading academics.

Our wide range of specialisms includes:

  • banking law
  • corporate governance and social responsibility
  • energy law
  • insolvency law
  • consumer protection
  • contract law
  • insurance and reinsurance law
  • international arbitration
  • finance and credit law
  • international trade
  • maritime law
  • business structures
  • investment law
  • financial markets law and regulation
  • competition law
  • mergers & acquisitions
  • intellectual property law 

The Centre fuses the experience of academic lawyers and practising lawyers, and the impact of their work is far-reaching. For example, in addition to being frequently cited in the courts, members of the Centre have advised:

  • Committees of the European Parliament
  • the House of Commons
  • the National Assembly for Wales
  • the Northern Irish Government
  • the Law Commission
  • the Irish Environmental Protection Agency
  • the UNEP
  • the UNDP
  • the Secretariat for the Bonn Convention
  • the Australian Attorney-General’s Department

Our members

The Centre fuses the experience of academic lawyers and practising lawyers, and the impact of their work is far-reaching.

Co-Directors

Members

Student members will appear here when the new academic year starts 

Events

Join us for our first event of the academic year.

"Fintech and Financial Regulation in Asia":

A talk by Takafumi Ochiai, Head of Policy Research Institution, Senior Partner, Atsumi & Sakai Managing Director, Fintech Association of Japan.  

Friday 27 October

12.30 – 14.00   

Council Chamber, Northcote House

About our speaker:

A graduate of the Department of Mathematics at Keio University, Takafumi passed the bar examination while studying at the Graduate School of Science and Technology. He worked for about nine years at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto’s Tokyo and Beijing offices, handling international disputes, bankruptcy cases, intellectual property, and overseas investments, among other matters. Since joining Atsumi & Sakai, his current firm, he has been active in providing business advice and in the establishment of new systems in industries such as finance, healthcare, real estate, MaaS, and IT. He also serves as a board member or a member of numerous government and private organizations.

Join us in the Council Chamber of Northcote House for this talk and a reception with opportunities to discuss the topic further.

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Studying

Members of the Centre are involved in supervising postgraduate research students in all areas of commercial and corporate law.  Use our expertise search to find academics in your chosen area. 

For more details, including funding options, please see our postgraduate research programmes webpage.

Our members also deliver the LLM in Commercial Law, a programme which offers unrivalled opportunities to study across a range of modules taught by leading academics in their field.

Non-media

For non-media enquiries relating to the Centre and its work please contact Professor Mimi Zou.

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Centre for Commercial and Corporate Law
Law School - Amory Building
University of Exeter
Rennes Drive
Exeter
Devon
UK
EX4 4RJ

Media

Media enquiries are also welcome - please contact:

Telephone: +44 (0)1392 722307
Email: pressoffice@exeter.ac.uk