Research Catalog

Title

Understanding corporate law / Arthur R. Pinto, Douglas M. Branson.

Author

Pinto, Arthur R.

Publication

New Providence, NJ : LexisNexis, c2009.

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Additional Authors

Branson, Douglas M.

Description

1 v. (various pagings) : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Understanding Corporate Law is designed to assist students by offering a clear and comprehensive treatment of key concepts in corporate law. It is a popular study guide for students and has been used by professors to supplement their casebook or as recommended reading. Significant business, economic, and policy issues are highlighted in connection with a thorough analysis of the important cases and statutory provisions used in the study of corporations. It includes the major theoretical approaches used in current corporate law literature. In each chapter, the authors identify important policies and discuss the relationship of the law as it has developed to those policies. Statutory issues are covered under both the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and the Revised Model Business Corporation Act. The Third Edition of Understanding Corporate Law discusses developing case law since the Second Edition including the Delaware courts' use of good faith in fiduciary duty cases. The book also reflects the corporate governance issues raised by the corporate scandals and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. A section of Chapter 5 deals generally with that Act, but its impact is also covered in relevant sections throughout the book. This Understanding treatise is designed to be used in conjunction with all of the major corporate law casebooks.

Series Statement

Understanding series

Subject

Corporation law > United States

Genre/Form

Study guides.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Promoters' liability and defective incorporation -- Piercing the corporate veil --- Financing the corporation -- The legal model and corporate governance : the allocation of power under state law -- Mergers and acquisitions -- Introduction to federal regulation and the proxy rules -- Introduction to fiduciary duty : the duty of care, the business judgement rule and good faith -- The duty of loyalty and conflicts of interest -- Controlling shareholders -- Special problems of the closely held corporation -- Hostile tender offers -- SEC Rule 105-b disclosure and insider trading -- Corporate litigation.

ISBN

• 9781422429594 (softbound)
• 1422429598 (softbound)

LCCN

^^2009028914

OCLC

426066187

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library