Features

• Guides readers through complex legislation and case law with expert commentary.
• Focuses on corporate governance and directors’ duties, corporate finance and corporate liability
• Introduces the basics principles of corporate insolvency law

PART A—COMPANIES AND COMPANY LAW
1. About Companies 
2. Company Law 
3. The Legal Nature of Companies 
4. Companies and Business Planning 
5. Constituting Companies

PART B—COMPANY MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE
6. Managing Companies 
7. Member Decision-Making 
8. Members’ Meetings 
9. Restrictions on Member Decision-Making 
10. Company Directors and Other Officers 
11. Directors’ Duties 1 
12. Directors’ Duties 2 
13. Directors’ Duties 3 
14. Directors’ Duties 4 
15. Consequences of Breach of Duty 
16. Members’ Remedies 
17. Reporting and Disclosure

PART C—CORPORATE FINANCE
18. Financing Companies 
19. Shares and Shareholding 1 
20. Shares and Shareholding 2 
21. Securities and Takeovers 
22. Financial Services and Markets

PART D—COMPANIES AND OUTSIDERS
23. Transacting by Companies 
24. External Administration 
25. Winding Up

PART E—REFERENCE MATERIALS
26. Case Studies and Problem Sets 
27. Sample Company Documents 
28. Legislation Extracts

FINDING AIDS
TABLE OF CASES
TABLE OF LEGISLATION

Pamela Hanrahan is Emeritus Professor of Commercial Law and Regulation at the University of New South Wales and a Consultant at Johnson Winter Slattery.

Ian Ramsay is the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Law School at the University of Melbourne.

Geof Stapledon is Managing Director of GPS Global Advisors in London.