Payne
Jennifer Payne
British scholar of corporate finance law, restructuring, and financial regulation
Official Source Note
The University of Oxford identifies Payne as Warden of Merton College and records her work in company law, corporate finance law, corporate insolvency, restructuring, and financial regulation, including research on schemes of arrangement and corporate rescue.
Payne is included because corporate-finance law is not only a set of accounting or valuation concepts: it allocates priority, control, information rights, and exit options among firms, investors, creditors, courts, and regulators.
Relevance to the Archive
Payne gives the archive a transaction-centered account of how legal capital, debt, security interests, restructuring tools, and insolvency institutions shape corporate financing choices.
Representative Contributions
- Corporate Finance Law: Principles and Policy, 3rd ed. (with Louise Gullifer, 2020)
- Schemes of Arrangement: Theory, Structure and Operation, 2nd ed. (2021)
- Corporate Restructuring Law in Flux (with Kristin van Zwieten, 2025)