Comparative Company Law: Text and Cases on the Laws Governing Corporations in Germany, the UK and the USA
by Andreas Cahn , David C. DonaldFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-09-06
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
It can be difficult for students of comparative company law both to understand the internationally relative nature of a legal system and to grasp it in practical detail. This book is designed to address that problem. Each chapter begins with a discursive analysis of the laws in Germany, the UK and the USA, framed by a comparative presentation. Chapters also contain edited judicial decisions from at least two of the jurisdictions, which allow readers to perform their own comparisons in more detail and leaves room for original analysis and discussion. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Andreas Cahn is a professor of law and Director of the Institute for Law and Finance at Goethe-University in Frankfurt. David C. Donald is a professor in the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has previously worked in securities and banking law practices in Frankfurt, corporate law practices in Milan and Rome, and an international trade law practice in Washington, D.C.
Table of Contents
| List of figures | p. vii |
| List of tables | p. viii |
| Preface and acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Glossary | p. xi |
| List of abbreviations | p. xiii |
| Table of cases | p. xvi |
| Table of legislation | p. xxii |
| The essential qualities of the corporation | p. 1 |
| Approaching comparative company law | p. 3 |
| The partnership as a form of business organization | p. 24 |
| Corporations in a global market: the law applicable to corporations | p. 65 |
| The corporation and its capital | p. 129 |
| Incorporating the company | p. 131 |
| Constituting the company's share capital | p. 165 |
| Increasing the company's capital | p. 188 |
| Distribution of dividends and maintenance of share capital | p. 219 |
| Repurchases of shares | p. 241 |
| The nature of shares and classes of shares | p. 259 |
| Governing the corporation | p. 295 |
| The management | p. 297 |
| An introduction to the board and its governance | p. 299 |
| Directors' power to represent the company | p. 312 |
| Directors' duties of loyalty, good faith and care | p. 332 |
| Judicial review of management decisions (the business judgment rule) | p. 369 |
| Executive compensation | p. 416 |
| Directors' duties in listed companies | p. 442 |
| The members | p. 465 |
| Shareholder voting rights | p. 467 |
| Shareholder information rights | p. 510 |
| Shareholder meetings | p. 546 |
| Shareholder duties | p. 574 |
| Judicial enforcement of shareholder rights | p. 599 |
| Corporate combinations, groups and takeovers | p. 619 |
| Mergers and acquisitions | p. 621 |
| Techniques for business combinations | p. 623 |
| Governance rules for business combinations | p. 654 |
| Companies in groups | p. 675 |
| Corporate groups | p. 677 |
| The market for corporate control | p. 753 |
| The regulation of takeover bids and prices | p. 755 |
| Management interference with takeovers bids | p. 795 |
| Special problems of leveraged buyouts | p. 844 |
| References | p. 877 |
| Index | p. 894 |
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