Gower Principles of Modern Company Law (South Asian Edition)

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:

• Covers all key areas of company law by way of a detailed, in-depth analysis in one comprehensive and lucid book
• Delivers the comprehensive guidance readers need in order to understand this complex area of law
• Provides a reliable and up-to-date resource which shows how the law has recently been interpreted
• Accessible to students and furnishes company law professionals with a reliable reference guide

Table of Contents:

• Part 1 - Introductory
• 1. Types and Functions of Companies
• 2. Advantages and Disadvantages of Incorporation
• 3. Sources of Company Law
• 4. Formation Procedures
• 5. Corporate Mobility
• 6. The Nature and Classification of Shares
• Part 2 - Separate Legal Personality in Action
• 7. The Limits of Separate Legal Personality and Limited Liability
• 8. Corporate Actions
• Part 3 - Regulating Boards and Individual Directors
• 9. The Board and its Directors
• 10. Directors - Duties
• Part 4 - Shareholders
• 11. The Constitutional Role of Shareholders
• 12. Shareholder Decision-Making
• 13. Controlling Members' Voting
• 14. Personal Claims and Unfair Prejudice
• 15. Corporate Litigation and the Derivative Action
• Part 5 - Creditors
• 16. Legal Capital, Minimum Capital and Verification
• 17. Capital Maintenance
• 18. Distributions and Transfers at an Undervalue
• 19. Undermining Creditors' Claims
• Part 6 - Public Enforcement
• 20. Disqualification of Directors
• 21. Breach of Corporate Duties: Administrative Remedies
• Part 7 - Accounts and Audit
• 22. Accounts and Reports
• 23. Audits and Auditors
• Part 8 - Equity Finance
• 24. Share Issues: General Rule
• 25. Public Offers of Shares
• 26. Transfers of Shares
• 27. Continuing Obligations and Disclosure of Information to the Market
• 28. Takeovers
• 29. Arrangements, Reconstructions and Mergers
• 30. Market Abuse
• Part 9 - Debt Finance
• 31. Debts and Debt Securities
• 32. Company Charges
• Part 10 - Winding Up and its Consequences
• 33. Managing Distressed or Defunct Companies