Introduction to Company Law

Paul Davies' Introduction to Company Law is a comprehensive introduction, giving readers a clear framework with which to navigate the intricacies of company law. The functions of the core features of company law are clearly examined.

List of contents

• Preface


• Table of Cases


• Table of Legislation


• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Board


• 3: Governance and the shareholders as a class


• 4: Markets and the shareholders as a class


• 5: Majority and minority shareholders


• 6: Directors' duties


• 7: Creditors


• 8: Liability and enforcement


• 9: Shareholder control


• Index

About the author

Paul Davies was the Allen & Overy Professor of Company Law at the University of Oxford between 2009 and 2014. Between 1998 and 2009 he was Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was a member of the British Government's Steering Group for the Company Law Review (1999-2001), which led to the new Companies Act 2006. He is now a Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute, an honorary QC and an honorary bencher of Gray's Inn.

Summary

Paul Davies' Introduction to Company Law is a comprehensive introduction, giving readers a clear framework with which to navigate the intricacies of company law. The functions of the core features of company law are clearly examined.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Davies, Paul (Senior Research Fellow Davies, Davies Paul
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2020
• EAN: 9780198854920
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885492-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Clarendon Law Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; England, Wales, LAW / Labor & Employment, LAW / Corporate, Company law, Employment & Labour Law, Employment and labour law: general, Wales / Cymru