Comparative Company Law

Part I. The Essential Qualities of the Corporation: 1. Approaching comparative company law; 2. Corporations in a global market: the law applicable to corporations; 3. Corporations in a global market: harmonization, convergence and transplantation; Part II. The Corporation and its Capital: 4. The partnership as a business form of business organization; 5. Incorporating the company; 6. Constituting the company's share capital; 7. Increasing the company's capital; 8. Distribution of dividends and maintenance of share capital; 9. Repurchases of shares; 10. The nature of shares and classes of shares; Part III. Governing the Corporation: Section 1. The Management: 11. An introduction to the board and its governance; 12. Directors' power to represent the company; 13. Directors' duties of loyalty, good faith and care; 14. Judicial review of management decisions (the business judgment rule); 15. Executive compensation; 16. Directors' duties in listed companies; 17. Governing the Family Enterprise; Section 2. The Members: 18. Shareholder voting rights; 19. Shareholder information rights; 20. Shareholder meetings; 21. Shareholder duties; 22. Judicial enforcement of shareholder rights; Part IV. Corporate Combinations, Groups and Takeovers: Sections 1. Mergers and Acquisitions: 23. Techniques for business combinations; 24. Governance rules for business combinations; Section 2. Companies in Groups: 25. Corporate groups: independent entities in economic interdependence; Section 3. The Market for Corporate Control: 26. The regulation of takeover bids and prices; 27. Management interference with takeover bids; 28. Special problems with leveraged buyouts.