Full Description
This volume is a guide to the legal framework in which companies operate. It follows the life of a company from start-up and financing, through directors' duties and the issue of shares, to reconstruction and insolvency, providing a concise and comprehensive introduction to the subject without over-simplifying the complex issues involved. "Company Law" is logically structured, and includes helpful summaries for each chapter, along with casenotes and exercises. The fourth edition of this book has been updated throughout and a new final chapter looks at the relationship between transglobal corporations and World Development.
Contents
Preface - Table of Cases - Table of Statutes - The Reasons for Forming Companies - Starting a Company - Corporate Personality - The Memorandum of Association - The Articles of Association - Promoters - Public Issue of Securities - The Regulation of Investment Business - Maintenance of Capital - Shareholders and the General Meeting - Directors' Duties - Statutory Duties of Directors - Suing the Company, Suing for the Company, Enforcing Directors' Duties - Shares - Lending Money and Securing Loans - Takeovers, Reconstructions, Amalgamations - Insolvency and Corporate Reconstruction - The Effect of the EU on English Company Law - The New Company Law of Eastern Europe - Transglobal Corporations and World Development - Bibliography and Further Reading - Index
