Smith & Keenan's Company Law, 15th UK edition
By Charles Wild & Stuart Weinstein
September 2011
Pearson Education
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781408261491
702 Pages
$92.50 Paper Original
Combining clarity and accessibility with detailed coverage of this often complex subject, Smith and Keenan’s Company Law offers a readable guide to all aspects of company law. The new edition fully incorporates the Companies Act 2006, containing recent case law and discussion of areas where the Act has had the most impact.
In addition, a broad range of end of chapter questions and clear case summaries are included. There are additional resources in mylawchamber, offering you a company law text with unrivalled study support in the book and online.
1 The nature of a company
2 Promotion and incorporation
3 The constitution of the company – the memorandum of association
4 The constitution of the company – the articles of association
5 The constitution of the company – altering the articles
6 The company and its contracts
7 The capital of a company
8 Capital maintenance – generally
9 Capital maintenance – company distributions
10 Company flotations
11 Shares – generally
12 Shares – transfer and transmission
13 Shares – payment for and insider dealing
14 Membership – capacity, registration, director and substantial holdings, annual return
15 The statutory derivative action
16 The protection of minorities
17 Directors and management – generally
19 The duties of directors
20 Vacation of office, disqualification and personal liability
21 Meetings and resolutions
22 Debentures and charges
23 Accounts and audit
24 Amalgamations, reconstructions and takeovers
25 Corporate insolvency – company rescue
26 Corporate insolvency – procedures other than rescue
27 Corporate insolvency – winding-up in context
Answers to test your knowledge questions
Appendix 1 – Companies (Model Articles) Regulations 2008, SI 2008/3229
Appendix 2 - Companies (Tables A to F) Regulations 1985 (SI 1985/805) as amended by SI 2007/2541 and SI 2007/2826
Index
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