Full Description
Companies and other Business Structures in South Africa, fourth edition, offers a clear and practical introduction to the law relating to companies, close corporations, business trusts, partnerships and financial markets. The fourth edition is comprehensively revised and updated to address the extensive development of common law jurisprudence that has emerged in the recent period. In particular, the text succinctly analyses the complex body of case law developments within the spheres of corporate governance, insider trading and business rescue, and provides a chapter that addresses the winding up and deregistration of companies.
The text explains the law relating to corporate finance with an interdisciplinary (legal, accounting and management accounting) approach, and situates discussion of the recently promulgated Financial Markets Act 19 of 2012 within the context of insider trading and financial markets.
Contents
Part 1: Companies
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Companies Act 71 of 2008
Chapter 2: Legal personality, types of company, and company formation
Chapter 3: Groups of companies
Chapter 4: Corporate finance: equity, debt instruments and distributions
Chapter 5: Shareholders and company meetings
Chapter 6: Directors and board committees
Chapter 7: Company records and financial statements
Chapter 8: Securities registration and transfer
Chapter 9: Public offerings of company securities
Chapter 10: Fundamental transactions and takeovers
Chapter 11: Insider trading
Chapter 12: Business rescue proceedings and compromises
Chapter 13: Audit, independent review, audit committees and the company secretary
Chapter 14: Remedies, enforcement agencies and alternative dispute resolution
Chapter 15: The winding-up and deregistration of companies
Part 2: Close Corporations
Chapter 16: Close corporations
Part 3: Partnerships
Chapter 17: Partnerships
Part 4: Business trusts
Chapter 18: Business trusts
Part 5: Financial markets
Chapter 19: Financial markets
