Full Description
Lee Roach's Company Law is a thoroughly modern textbook, effortlessly engaging the student reader and leading them through the complexities of the law.
Focused on students, this account of company law is written with exceptional clarity. Supported with learning features, the core principles and doctrines are fully explained and explored, and consistently linked with fascinating, lively examples of the law in action.
While focused fully on discussing law and legal issues, the book also responds to modern critiques of corporate regulation by linking the legal issues to debates around corporate governance . The student is therefore given the complete picture: both how companies are regulated and why company law is so essential.
Digital formats
This edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats.
The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
Extensive online resources provide significant additional support including:
- Bonus chapter on insider dealing and market abuse
- Multiple choice questions
- Answers to the self-test questions in the book
- Glossary
- Further reading
- OSCOLA referencing guide
- Twitter feed (@UKCompanyLaw) from the author
Contents
Part I: Introduction
1: Introduction
2: The UK's corporate law and governance system
Part II: The Formation and Nature of the Company
3: Incorporation
4: Corporate personality
5: The constitution of the company
6: Corporate capacity and liability
Part III: The directors of the company
7: Classifications of director
8: Director appointment and board composition
9: The role and powers of the board
10: Directors' duties I: duties of performance
11: Directors' duties II: conflicts of interest
12: Vacation of office and disqualification
Part IV: Membership of the Company
13: Membership
14: Meetings and investor engagement
15: Members' remedies
16: Share capital
17: The maintenance of capital
18: Public offers of shares
19: Corporate transparency
20: Debt capital and security
Part V: Corporate Rescue, Restructuring, and Insolvency
21: Corporate reconstructions and takeovers
22: Corporate rescue
23: Liquidation, dissolution, and restoration
Additional Chapters
24: Insider dealing and market abuse
