Introduction to company law / Paul Davies.

Since the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 the role of the company in society, especially the role of publicly traded companies, has acquired a political salience that was largely absent in the decades before the crisis. This concern has been reflected in both enhanced reporting requirements and in...

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Main Author: Davies, P. L. (Paul Lyndon) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Clarendon law series.
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Table of Contents:
  • The core features of company law
  • Corporate personality
  • Limiting liability and channelling creditors' claims
  • Limited liability : the limits of creditor self-help
  • Centralized management I : empowering shareholders in widely held companies
  • Centralized management II : directors' duties
  • Centralized management III : setting the board's incentives
  • Majority and minority shareholders
  • Shareholder control
  • International company law.