Company law

In recent decades, corporations have increasingly accepted that they have obligations to respect the socio-economic rights of individuals whose rights to livelihoods, education, food, health, housing and water are affected by the actions of corporations on a daily basis.

This work deals with the liability of the holding company for the debts of its insolvent subsidiaries.

Reconceptualises the general meeting, controlling shareholders and institutional investors as fiduciaries in four leading common law Asian jurisdictions.

Since the financial crisis, one of the key priorities of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has been individual accountability.

Understanding Company Law is a lively introduction to the key principles of the Companies Act 2006 and modern company law.

Are intellectual property rights like other property rights?

This book critically examines the concept of "e;embeddedness"e;: the core concept of an economic sociology of law (ESL).

This book analyses the impact that stabilization clauses have on the development of human rights and gender laws in resource rich nations.

One of the main issues for a buyer making an acquisition is how to finance it.

Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.

This new guide to schemes of arrangement draws together all of the elements of the law and practice concerning both creditor and member schemes.

This book explores the evolution of the shareholder in post-war Britain within the context of changing legal, political, economic, and social conditions.

The widespread understanding of auction structure considers auction as consisting of three contracts: contract between the seller and the auctioneer, contract between the auctioneer and the buyer and the sale contract between the seller and the buyer.

As identity theft and corporate data vulnerability continue to escalate, corporations must protect both the valuable consumer data they collect and their own intangible assets.

As attention moves rapidly towards comparative approaches, the research and teaching of company law has somehow lagged behind.

This book critically analyses the prospects of overhauling the legal framework of climate change regulation of corporations in African state.

Corporate boards play a central role in corporate governance and are thus regulated in the corporate law and corporate governance codes of all industrialized countries.

This title was first published n 2000: The most recent developments in occupational health and safety regulation in the UK's offshore oil industry represent a departure from traditional legal forms.

Covers the implementing legislation of all Member States who have adopted the European company (''SE'') Regulation.

This book examines the role and potential of derivative actions in shareholder protection in public limited companies.

The control of multinational corporations is an area of law that has attracted immense attention both at national and international level.

Equality, Diversity and Opportunity Management presents a comprehensive analysis of the processes of governance, leadership, policy and strategy formulation, decision-making, practical and financial management, and real-world implementation of the Equality, Diversity, Opportunity, and Discrimination (or anti-Discrimination) Agenda.

This book describes and assesses an emerging threat to states' territorial control and sovereignty: the hostile control of companies that carry out privatized aspects of sovereign authority.

The essays in this volume examine the emergence of the concept of corporate social responsibility, and the uses that have been made of the language of corporate responsibility to explore the business/society relationship.

This book analyzes the multi-faceted scandal that has tarnished the reputation of the United Auto Workers (UAW), an iconic union revered for its commitment to union democracy and ethical practices, showing what went wrong to lead the spread of corruption and how to remedy it.

Corporate governance regulation has been through numerous cycles of reform, and yet we still see instances of companies collapsing suddenly.

Provides useful background and detailed advice on the law surrounding a wide range of commercial agreements including: Key common clauses; When to use standard terms; Procedures and good practice; Termination of contracts; Remedies for breach; Specific issues relating to export, software and consumer contracts.

"e;The Sabanes-Oxley Act has been one of the most significant developments in corporate and securities regulation since the New Deal.

This book addresses the phenomenon of mergers that may result in non-coordinated effects in oligopolistic markets.

There are an estimated 40,000 international Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), working in an enormous global aid industry; official development assistance alone reached GBP90bn in 2014.

Although much has been written about innovation in the past several years, not all parts of the innovation lifecycle have been given the same treatment.

Software is the product of intellectual creativity, but protection of the intellectual property residing in software is the subject of some controversy.

This book critically analyses fundamental principles of EU law for the control of international economic crime.

The manner in which the governing law of companies is determined has attracted much attention from academics and practitioners alike ever since the European Court of Justice began receiving references for preliminary rulings regarding the compatibility of protective conflict of corporate law norms with the EC Treaty provisions concerning freedom of establishment.

The Briefcase series is designed specifically with the time-pressed student in mind.

This title was first published in 2003.

Insolvency law reform has become a subject of public urgency in many countries in the past two decades and particularly in much of Asia over the last ten years.

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.

Baffled by joint venture and shareholder agreements?

The Case Approach to Financial Planning: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice, Fourth Edition (Revised),fosters sound financial planning logic and decision-making using the CFP Board of Standards, Inc.

Consolidation activities such as mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have been one of the major strategies adopted by Indian firms to withstand global competition.

The third edition of this acclaimed book continues to provide a discussion of key theoretical and policy issues in corporate finance law.

Divided into three parts, this edited volume gives an overview of current topics in law and ethics in relation to intellectual property.

Provides a reference point for practitioners, who may need to prepare or review a valuation of shares or intangible assets, and acts as a practical guide to the more straightforward valuations which are required for tax purposes.

This book analyses the dichotomy between the goal of social inclusion and the effect of social exclusion through over-indebtedness since 2008 in Europe.

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.

The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law reflects exciting developments in scholarship dedicated to reinvigorating the study of the broad field of private law.

The ideology of human rights protection has gained considerable momentum during the second half of the twentieth century at both national and international level and appears to be an effective lever for bringing about legal change.