A thoroughly updated new edition of this successful and influential text, it helps students gain a critical understanding of the key debates shaping the field of company law.
Within the European Union, direct taxation is an area which often provokes controversy due to tensions between the tax sovereignty of the individual Member States and the desire for an integrated internal market.
Savvy managers no longer look at contracts and the law reactively but use them proactively to reduce their costs, minimize their risks, secure key talent, collaborate to innovate, protect intellectual property, and create value for their customers that is superior to that offered by competitors.
Providing a clear introduction to securities laws and how they are applied in different countries, this book compares the enaction and enforcement of securities laws in Kuwait, the UK and the USA.
Nearly four million companies incorporated in the UK allow their constitution or company rule book to be dictated by the standard Articles of Association.
An integrity system is an integrated assemblage of institutional mechanisms, designed to minimize ethical misconduct and promote ethical health in institutions, organizations, occupations and the like.
Corporate and Personal Insolvency Law provides a basic framework of knowledge of the current legal rules and a comprehensive introduction to the underlying issues.
Published in 1997, in this book an attempt has been made to analyze the legal structure of GATT and the WTO as well as those agreements which control trade in textiles.
Money laundering is a global issue and there is evidence that the services provided by the legal profession may be misused to launder the proceeds of crime.
With the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) being underfunded and in debt, and with various proposed changes still pending approval, the flood insurance industry has had a strong need for flood coverage in the private market.
Die Verhängung immer höherer Unternehmensgeldbußen rückt die Frage in den Blickpunkt, inwieweit der durch solche Geldbußen eingetretene Schaden auf die hierfür verantwortlich erachteten Organwalter abgewälzt werden kann.
Charts the company life-cycle from pre-incorporation, through incorporation and culminates with the winding up process, addressing, in detail, the essential requirements in establishing a company, including the steps, procedures and documents that are required during the existence of the corporation.
New investment techniques and new types of shareholder activists are shaking up the traditional ways of equity investment that informs much of our present-day corporate law and governance.
Bloomsbury Professional's Guide to the Companies Act 2014 covers the key areas of Companies Act 2014 in Ireland and walks the reader through the changes and their significance for practitioners.
Der vorliegende Band macht es sich zur Aufgabe, eine „Kartographie der Kontroversen" im Gesellschaftsrecht zu erstellen und diese in einen größeren Kontext einzuordnen.
This book focuses on the legal and social aspects of corporate governance through doctrinal and empirical research papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Governance Fraud Ethics and Social Responsibility held at National Law University Delhi in 2018.
Die Binnenhaftung von Geschäftsleitern großer Vereine wird angesichts ihrer zunehmenden wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung immer relevanter, besonders vor dem Hintergrund strengerer Compliance-Pflichten.
Band 5 behandelt in aller Tiefe und auf hochaktuellem Stand die §§ 125-129 zur Rechtschutzversicherung sowie die Vorschriften zur Kasko- und Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung (einschließlich der einschlägigen Allgmeinen Versicherungsbedingungen).
This book brings together thought leadership from academia and leading figures in asset management in key global jurisdictions, to pool together insights regarding the transformative visions and challenges for modern investment management, as well as best practices that realise the policy objectives in regulation and soft law.
In modern countries, a company is commonly categorized as either public or privately-held, depending on whether securities are publicly traded on the open market, into a government-owned company or private company depending on government ownership, or a financial company or non-financial company depending on its main business, and so on.
Exploring the role of public sector audit in emerging democracies and developing countries, this book provides an account of the relationship between the public sector auditor, the legislature and executive government.
Mehrstufige arbeitsteilige Organisationen des unternehmerischen Geschäftsbereiches sind - insbesondere mit Blick auf Großunternehmen - aus dem modernen Wirtschaftsleben nicht mehr wegzudenken.
The Definitive Guide to High-Performance Corporate Governance Fully updated for the latest research, trends, and regulations, Corporate Governance Matters, Third Edition, offers comprehensive and objective information for everyone seeking to improve corporate governance-from directors to institutional investors to policymakers and researchers.
Buying and Selling Insolvent Companies and Businesses aims to be a comprehensive guide to its readers, being useful to insolvency practitioners and other professionals involved in insolvency, including lawyers, accountants, company directors and company secretaries.
Alexander Hamilton is commonly seen as the standard-bearer of an ideology-turned-political party, the Federalists, engaged in a struggle for the soul of the young United States against the Anti-Federalists, and later, the Jeffersonian Republicans.