Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance written by Jeffrey N. Gordon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 1397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate law and corporate governance have been at the forefront of regulatory activities across the world for several decades now, and are subject to increasing public attention following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance provides the global framework necessary to understand the aims and methods of legal research in this field. Written by leading scholars from around the world, the Handbook contains a rich variety of chapters that provide a comparative and functional overview of corporate governance. It opens with the central theoretical approaches and methodologies in corporate law scholarship in Part I, before examining core substantive topics in corporate law, including shareholder rights, takeovers and restructuring, and minority rights in Part II. Part III focuses on new challenges in the field, including conflicts between Western and Asian corporate governance environments, the rise of foreign ownership, and emerging markets. Enforcement issues are covered in Part IV, and Part V takes a broader approach, examining those areas of law and finance that are interwoven with corporate governance, including insolvency, taxation, and securities law as well as financial regulation. The Handbook is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary resource placing corporate law and governance in its wider context, and is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in the field.
Download or read book Comparative Corporate Governance written by Andreas M. Fleckner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The business corporation is one of the greatest organizational inventions, but it creates risks both for shareholders and for third parties. To mitigate these risks, legislators, judges, and corporate lawyers have tried to learn from foreign experiences and adapt their regulatory regimes to them. In the last three decades, this approach has led to a stream of corporate and capital market law reforms unseen before. Corporate governance, the system by which companies are directed and controlled, is today a key topic for legislation, practice, and academia all over the world. Corporate scandals and financial crises have repeatedly highlighted the need to better understand the economic, social, political, and legal determinants of corporate governance in individual countries. Comparative Corporate Governance furthers this goal by bringing together current scholarship in law and economics with the expertise of local corporate governance specialists from twenty-three countries.
Download or read book The Anatomy of Corporate Law written by Reinier Kraakman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the long-awaited second edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect profound changes in corporate law. It now includes consideration of additional matters such as the highly topical issue of enforcement in corporate law, and explores the continued convergence of corporate law across jurisdictions. The authors start from the premise that corporate (or company) law across jurisdictions addresses the same three basic agency problems: (1) the opportunism of managers vis-à-vis shareholders; (2) the opportunism of controlling shareholders vis-à-vis minority shareholders; and (3) the opportunism of shareholders as a class vis-à-vis other corporate constituencies, such as corporate creditors and employees. Every jurisdiction must address these problems in a variety of contexts, framed by the corporation's internal dynamics and its interactions with the product, labor, capital, and takeover markets. The authors' central claim, however, is that corporate (or company) forms are fundamentally similar and that, to a surprising degree, jurisdictions pick from among the same handful of legal strategies to address the three basic agency issues. This book explains in detail how (and why) the principal European jurisdictions, Japan, and the United States sometimes select identical legal strategies to address a given corporate law problem, and sometimes make divergent choices. After an introductory discussion of agency issues and legal strategies, the book addresses the basic governance structure of the corporation, including the powers of the board of directors and the shareholders meeting. It proceeds to creditor protection measures, related-party transactions, and fundamental corporate actions such as mergers and charter amendments. Finally, it concludes with an examination of friendly acquisitions, hostile takeovers, and the regulation of the capital markets.
Download or read book The Anatomy of Corporate Law written by Reinier H. Kraakman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the long-awaited third edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to reflect the profound changes in corporate law and governance practices that have taken place since the previous edition. These include numerous regulatory changes following the financial crisis of 2007-09 and the changing landscape of governance, especially in the US, with the ever more central role of institutional investors as (active) owners of corporations. The geographic scope of the coverage has been broadened to include an important emerging economy, Brazil. In addition, the book now incorporates analysis of the burgeoning use of corporate law to protect the interests of "external constituencies" without any contractual relationship to a company, in an attempt to tackle broader social and economic problems. The authors start from the premise that corporations (or companies) in all jurisdictions share the same key legal attributes: legal personality, limited liability, delegated management, transferable shares, and investor ownership. Businesses using the corporate form give rise to three basic types of agency problems: those between managers and shareholders as a class; controlling shareholders and minority shareholders; and shareholders as a class and other corporate constituencies, such as corporate creditors and employees. After identifying the common set of legal strategies used to address these agency problems and discussing their interaction with enforcement institutions, The Anatomy of Corporate Law illustrates how a number of core jurisdictions around the world deploy such strategies. In so doing, the book highlights the many commonalities across jurisdictions and reflects on the reasons why they may differ on specific issues. The analysis covers the basic governance structure of the corporation, including the powers of the board of directors and the shareholder meeting, both when management and when a dominant shareholder is in control. It then analyses the role of corporate law in shaping labor relationships, protection of external stakeholders, relationships with creditors, related-party transactions, fundamental corporate actions such as mergers and charter amendments, takeovers, and the regulation of capital markets. The Anatomy of Corporate Law has established itself as the leading book in the field of comparative corporate law. Across the world, students and scholars at various stages in their careers, from undergraduate law students to well-established authorities in the field, routinely consult this book as a starting point for their inquiries.
Download or read book Analyses Legales Et Economiques Sur Les Entreprises Multinationales written by Klaus J. Hopt and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liability of Corporate Groups Autonomy and Control in Parent Subsidiary Relationships in U S German and EEC Law An International and Comparative Perspective written by José Engrácia Antunes and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-05-11 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full Title: Liability of Corporate Groups: Autonomy and control in Parent-Subsidiary Relationships in US, German and EU Law, An International and Comparative Perspective. Corporation law dates from the 19th century when the growth of business enterprise required a division between the private and the company sphere, making the company a legal person with its own rights, responsibilities and liabilities. The company was no longer the legal equivalent of its owner but became a separate legal entity, providing a form of legal protection for the owners, employees and the customers. The introduction of company law meant a great step forward for those engaged in big business in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere.
Download or read book Advisory Boards in Medium Sized Companies written by Daniel Graewe and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advisory boards offer various advantages in corporate settings related to shareholder relief, consulting know-how, and marketing. They have been gaining increasing importance across the world, especially in medium-sized companies which by nature differ from large corporations in their independent business models, leaner structures and special culture. With contributions from renowned practical experts from several countries, Advisory Boards in Medium-Sized Companies helps to classify, compare and understand the role of advisory boards in SMEs in the main legal and economic systems around the world. This useful and timely book analyses the legal structure and framework of advisory boards in different countries and provides an overview of their situation, furthering critical mutual understanding of corporate law at the international level. Experienced practitioners from each country have brought together their experiences to improve the understanding of, and raise awareness of the benefits of, advisory boards through up-to-date and practice-oriented country reports. This book provides valuable insights for managers, shareholders, consultants, practitioners and academics alike.
Download or read book Les syst mes d information largis Coll management et informatique written by CARLIER Alphonse and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'entreprise se construit sur sa capacité d'innovation et avec des systèmes opérationnels capables de délivrer la valeur ajoutée attendue. Les modèles de systèmes d'information doivent s'adapter rapidement aux technologies émergentes et aux besoins des clients et des utilisateurs. Cet ouvrage dresse un panorama des approches classiques et des méthodes empiriques pour les SI et propose une vision élargie qui correspond aux besoins des métiers. Il présente les différents aspects permettant de faire face aux évolutions et aux ruptures technologiques à l'aide d'une organisation optimale qui va de la gouvernance à la gestion informatique. Il expose les procédés pour introduire les nouvelles technologies de veille et d'intelligence économique tout en décrivant les macroétapes (analyse, conception, production et mise en exploitation) et l'incorporation des pratiques métiers en matière de cycle de vie. L'auteur Alphonse Carlier est ingénieur industriel et consultant en gestion et développement de projets innovants. Il intervient comme formateur sur les technologies objets, MERISE, UML2, ITILV3, ISO 20000, ISO 9001, l'administration des bases de données Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, les outils collaboratifs, les CMS et les méthodes de gestion.
Download or read book Groups of Companies written by Rafael Mariano Manóvil and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive study on how twenty-three countries have approached the issue of company groups. In addition to detailed profiles of each country’s legislation, written by some of the most respected experts in the field, the book also presents a general overview and offers readers an in-depth, up-to-date and highly practical comparative analysis of the company group phenomenon in connection with national legal regimes. As such, the book is a must-read for all those seeking a deeper understanding of how company groups are viewed and regulated around the globe.
Download or read book Criminal Liability of Managers in Europe written by Stanislaw Tosza and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every managerial decision is risky, at least to some extent. Conducting business is impossible without venturing into new territories and even the most ordinary daily choices could turn out to be failures. Excessive risk, however, can be very detrimental as was starkly illustrated by the most recent financial crisis. By criminalising managers' excessive risk-taking criminal law enters a sphere which is at the core of the activity it affects. At the same time it provides for criminal punishment for courses of conduct that, without doubt, can be extremely harmful. The objective of this book is to examine existing criminalisation of excessive risk-taking as well as to analyse whether such criminalisation is desirable and if yes, under which conditions.
Download or read book Law and Sustainability written by Koen Byttebier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with some aspects of the future shape of the socio-economic order which would be founded on sustainability principles and the role of law therein, instead of on the prevailing capitalist economic order. The volume elaborates in particular on how innovation, a crucial aspect of free-market capitalism and its laws which constitute the current socio-economic order, could result in a more sustainable economy which, in turn, could lead to a more sustainable society. Moreover, the book analyses current developments in financial and economic law and evaluates their perks, risks and sustainability levels. The book contains no less than 11 chapters in which a variety of experts share their state-of-the-art insights regarding specific domains of socio-economic life. As such, the book deals with topics that are at present fully under debate in societies, such as student credit and the dangers it entails, cryptocurrencies and how the law tries to regulate this basically private law instrument, groups of companies under Belgian (company) law, a proposal for improving the international monetary system, and seeds and intellectual property rights, besides various other similar themes. The book forms the latest volume of the book series Economic and Financial Law & Policy – Shifting Insights & Values, and fully complies with the series’ goal of critically examining the legal methods and mechanisms that shape the global free markets and proposing alternatives to them. The book will hereby prove a valuable instrument for all researchers investigating these matters, besides policymakers and their advisers as well as all lawyers active in the field of economic law who look for a new perspective on the subject matters dealt with.
Download or read book Decisions and Reports written by European Commission of Human Rights and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Acquisition Finance written by Gwendoline Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comparative analysis of the law and practice of acquisition finance from leading lawyers in over 20 different jurisdictions. The new edition includes coverage of acquisitions from insolvency practitioners/administrators, regulation affecting financial institution investment practices and public company acquisitions.
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