Overview
Comparative Company Law provides a systematic and coherent exposition of company law across jurisdictions, augmented by extracts taken from key judgments, legislation, and scholarly works. It provides an overview of the legal framework of company law in the US, the UK, Germany, and France, as well as the legislative measures adopted by the EU and the relevant case law of the Court of Justice. The comparative analysis of legal frameworks is firmly grounded in legal history and legal and economic theory and bolstered by numerous extracts (including extracts in translation) that offer the reader an invaluable insight into how the law operates in context. The book is an essential guide to how company law cuts across borders, and how different jurisdictions shape the corporate lifespan from its formation by way of incorporation to its demise (corporate insolvency) and eventual dissolution. In addition, it offers an introduction to the nature of the corporation, the framework of EU company law, incorporation and corporate representation, agency problems in the firm, rights of stakeholders and shareholders, neutrality and defensive measures in corporate control transactions, legal capital, piercing the corporate veil, and corporate insolvency and restructuring law.
Full Product Details
Author: Carsten Gerner-Beuerle (Professor of Commercial Law University College London) ,
Michael Anderson Schillig (Professor of Law King's College London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780191747397
ISBN 10: 0191747394
Publication Date: 20 June 2019
Audience:
General/trade
,
General
Format: Undefined
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.
Author Information
Carsten Gerner-Beuerle is Professor of Commercial Law at University College London. He read law and economics at Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Minnesota, and the University of London. From 2004-2009 he was a lecturer at King's College London, and from 2009-2017 he held appointments at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is admitted to the bar in Germany and practices as a registered European lawyer in England and Wales. He advises on matters of international corporate, insolvency, and capital markets law. Michael Anderson Schillig is a Professor of Law at King's College London. He read law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, King's College London, and Humboldt University Berlin. From 2004-2007 he was a lecturer at the University of Sheffield, and from 2007-2017 he held appointments in International Commercial and Financial Law at King's College London. He is admitted to the bar in Germany and practices as a registered European lawyer in England and Wales. He advises on matters of international corporate, insolvency, and capital markets law.
