How a company works; starting a company; corporate personality and alter ego doctrine; the constitution of a company; promoters; management of the company; raising money; regulatory framework; keeping or distributing money; director's duties; statutory duties of directors, disqualification and insider dealing; suing the company, suing for the company, enforcing director's duties; rights attaching to shares; lending money to a company and securing loans; reconstructions, amalgamations, takeovers, arrangements; insolvency; the influence of the EEC.