Gower : principles of modern company law / Paul L. Davies, Sarah Worthington, Christopher Hare.

London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2021.

11th edition

199084

Corporation law -- Great Britain.

PART 1 — Introductory

1. Types and Functions of Companies

2. Advantages and Disadvantages of Incorporation

3. Sources of Company Law

4. Formation Procedures

5. Corporate Mobility

6. The Nature and Classification of Shares

PART 2 — Separate Legal Personality in Action

7. The Limits of Separate Legal Personality and Limited Liability

8. Corporate Actions

PART 3 — Regulating Boards and Individual Directors

9. The Board and its Directors

10. Directors’ Duties

PART 4 — Shareholders

11. The Constitutional Role of Shareholders

12. Shareholder Decision-Making

13. Controlling Members’ Voting

14. Personal Claims and Unfair Prejudice

15. Corporate Litigation and the Derivative Action

PART 5 — Creditors

16. Legal Capital, Minimum Capital and Verification

17. Capital Maintenance

18. Distributions and Transfers at an Undervalue

19. Undermining Creditors’ Claims

PART 6 — Public Enforcement

20. Disqualification of Directors

21. Breach of Corporate Duties: Administrative Remedies

PART 7 — Accounts and Audit

22. Accounts and Reports

23. Audits and Auditors

PART 8 — Equity Finance

24. Share Issues: General Rule

25. Public Offers of Shares

26. Transfers of Shares

27. Continuing Obligations and Disclosure of Information to the Market

28. Takeovers

29. Arrangements, Reconstructions and Mergers

30. Market Abuse

PART 9 — Debt Finance

31. Debts and Debt Securities

32. Company Charges

PART 10 — Winding Up and its Consequences

33. Managing Distressed or Defunct Companies.

Gower and Davies is the clearest and most reliable text available to cover the increasingly complex subject of company law. Students, as well as those involved in company law on a day-to-day basis, can turn to Gower and Davies secure in the knowledge that it will be an interesting, thought provoking and above all understandable exposition of both law and practice. - Publisher's website.

Previous edition: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Principles of modern company law

Gower's principles of modern company law

9780414088115

clxii, 1294 pages ; 24 cm