Derivative Actions and Corporate Governance
theory and operation
$218.39
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
13 December 2007
Summary
This volume examines the circumstances in which a shareholder can bring an action on behalf of a company (a derivative action), exploring how this remedy may be used to ensure good corporate governance, and laying out a theoretical framework and practical guidance for future development of the law. Derivative actions are an important aspect of the continuing debate about corporate governance in the UK, the US and many other jurisdictionsworldwide. This book offers a conceptually inclusive ap…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199204892 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199204896 |
| Author: | Arad Reisberg |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 December 2007 |
| Weight: | 687g |
| Dimensions: | 242mm x 163mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
…an exhaustive and penetrating analysis of the law relating to derivative actions. No stone has been left unturned…mandatory reading for all company lawyers. Professor Stephen Girvin, I.C.C.L.R. 2008, 19(9), 308-309 [This] well-researched text provides a well thought-out analysis on derivative claims. The book provides excellent insights on when they are justifiable in the context of the current provisions in the Companies Act 2006. Peter Yeoh, Business Law Review, April 2008
About The Author
Arad Reisberg
Dr. Arad Reisberg, D.Phil (Oxon), Advocate, is currently the Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and a Lecturer at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is a contributing author to Annotated Companies Acts (Oxford University Press looseleaf), and sits on the Editorial Boards of the journals Corporate Ownership and Control, and International Corporate Rescue. He is an Academic Member of ECGI (European CorporateGovernance Institute) and a co-editor of Pettet’s Company Law.
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