Description
Gower’s Principles of Modern Company Law presents the leading text available on company law, providing clarity while covering all key areas by way of a detailed, in-depth analysis. Students, as well as those involved in company law on a day-to-day basis, can turn to Gower secure in the knowledge that it will be an interesting, thought-provoking, and, above all, understandable exposition of both law and practice.
Gower’s Principles of Modern Company Law:
- Covers all key areas of company law by way of detailed, in-depth analysis in one comprehensive and lucid book
- Delivers the comprehensive guidance readers need in order to understand this complex area of law
- Provides a reliable and up-to-date resource that shows how the law has recently been interpreted
- Accessible to students and furnishes company law professionals with a reliable reference guide
- Contents:
- Part 1 – Introductory
- 1. Types and Functions of Companies
- 2. Advantages and Disadvantages of Incorporation
- 3. Sources of Company Law
- 4. Formation Procedures
- 5. Corporate Mobility
- 6. The Nature and Classification of Shares
- Part 2 – Separate Legal Personality in Action
- 7. The Limits of Separate Legal Personality and Limited Liability
- 8. Corporate Actions
- Part 3 – Regulating Boards and Individual Directors
- 9. The Board and its Directors
- 10. Directors’ Duties
- Part 4 – Shareholders
- 11. The Constitutional Role of Shareholders
- 12. Shareholder Decision-Making
- 13. Controlling Members’ Voting
- 14. Personal Claims and Unfair Prejudice
- 15. Corporate Litigation and the Derivative Action
- Part 5 – Creditors
- 16. Legal Capital, Minimum Capital and Verification
- 17. Capital Maintenance
- 18. Distributions and Transfers at an Undervalue
- 19. Undermining Creditors’ Claims
- Part 6 – Public Enforcement
- 20. Disqualification of Directors
- 21. Breach of Corporate Duties: Administrative Remedies
- Part 7 – Accounts and Audit
- 22. Accounts and Reports
- 23. Audits and Auditors
- Part 8 – Equity Finance
- 24. Share Issues: General Rule
- 25. Public Offers of Shares
- 26. Transfers of Shares
- 27. Continuing Obligations and Disclosure of Information to the Market
- 28. Takeovers
- 29. Arrangements, Reconstructions, and Mergers
- 30. Market Abuse
- Part 9 – Debt Finance
- 31. Debts and Debt Securities
- 32. Company Charges
- Part 10 – Winding Up and its Consequences
- 33. Managing Distressed or Defunct Companies
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