Gower's Principles of Modern Company Law

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Description
Gower's Principles of Modern Company Law presents the leading text available on company law, providing clarity while covering all key areas by way of a detailed, in-depth analysis. Students, as well as those involved in company law on a day-to-day basis, can turn to Gower secure in the knowledge that it will be an interesting, thought provoking and above all understandable exposition of both law and practice.
Gower's Principles of Modern Company Law:
•    Gives students the comprehensive guidance they need in order to understand this complex
      area of law, and provides company law professionals with a reliable reference guide
•    Covers all key areas of company law by way of a detailed, in-depth analysis in one
      comprehensive and lucid book 
•    Provides an up-to-date source which readers can rely on, incorporating the fundamental changes
      brought about by the Companies Act 2006 and the secondary legislation made under that Act
•    Shows how the law has recently been interpreted as well as more recent legislative changes. 
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Contents
Part 1 : Introductory
1.    Types and functions of Companies
2.    Advantages and Disadvantages of Incorporation
3.    Sources of Company Law and The Company's Constitution
4.    Formation Procedures
5.    Pre-Incorporation and Initial Corporate Contracting
6.    Overseas Companies, EU Law and Corporate Mobility
Part 2 : Separate Legal Personality and Limited Liability
7.    Corporate Actions
8.    Limited Liability and Lifting the Veil
9.    Personal Liability for Abuses of Limited Liability
10.  Disqualifications of Directors
11.   Legal Capital, Minimum Capital and Verification
12.  Dividends and Distributons
13.  Capital Maintenance 
Part 3 : Corporate Governance : The Board and Shareholders
14.    The Board
15.    Shareholder Decision-Making
16.    Directors' Duties
17.    The Derivative Claim and Personal Actions
18.    Breach of Corporate Duties : Administrative Remedies
Part 4 : Corporate Governance : Majority and Minority Shareholders
19.    Controlling Members' Voting
20.    Unfair Prejudice
Part 5 : Account and Audit
21.     Annual Accounts and Reports
22.    Audits and Auditors
Part 6 : Equity Finance
23.    The Nature and Classifications of Shares
24.    Share Issues : General Rules
25.    Public Offers of Shares
26.    Continuing Obligations and Disclosure of Information to the Market
27.    Transfers of Shares
28.    Takeovers
29.    Arrangements, Reconstructions and Mergers
30.    Market Abuse
Part 7 : Debt Finance
31.     Debts and Debt Securities
32.    Company Charges
Part 8 : Insolvency and its Consequences
33.    Winding up, Dissolution and Restoration
Index
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Author Details
Paul L Davies QC (Hon), FBA, Alien & Overy Professor of Corporate Law, University of Oxford
Sarah Worthington, QC (Hon), FBA, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge
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