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Company Law gives a clear and authoritative account of the law, including key principles and valuable coverage of corporate governance and theory, as well as current debates surrounding these areas
List of contents
- PART I: Fundamental Principles
- 1: Introduction to company law
- 2: Corporate personality and limited liability
- 3: Lifting the veil
- 4: Promoters and pre-incorporation contracts
- 5: Raising capital: equity and its consequences
- 6: Raising capital: debentures: fixed and floating charges
- PART II: Behind the Corporate Veil
- 7: Share capital
- 8: The constitution of the company: dealing with insiders
- 9: Classes of shares and variation of class rights
- 10: Derivative claims
- 11: Statutory shareholder remedies
- PART III: Issues of Corporate Authority
- 12: The constitution of the company: dealing with outsiders
- 13: Corporate management
- 14: Directors' duties
- 15: Corporate governance 1: corporate governance and corporate theory
- 16: Corporate governance 2: the UK corporate governance debate
- 17: Corporate rescue and liquidations in outline
About the author
Alan Dignam, Professor of Corporate Law, Queen Mary University of London.
John Lowry, Emeritus Professor of Law, University College London.
