Table of Contents

1: The company and its incorporation
2: Corporate personality and limited liability
3: Corporate activity and legal liability
4: Shareholders as an organ of the company
5: The board of directors as an organ of the company
6: Corporate governance
7: Directors' duties
8: Remedies for maladministration of the company
9: Company auditors
10: Shares
11: Raising equity capital from shareholders
12: Distributions to shareholders and capital maintenance
13: Raising debt capital: borrowing, debentures and charges
14: Public disclosure, market regulation and public investigations of companies
15: Reconstructions, mergers and takeovers
16: Rescue and insolvency procedures

About the Author

Sarah Worthington, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Director of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, University of Cambridge, Sinéad Agnew, Catherine Seville Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge