Company Law

13. Revised Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-19-890384-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 894 g

Provides the perfect balance between depth, succinctness, and accessibility, demystifying complex areas of law.

Company Law gives a clear and authoritative account of the law, including key principles and valuable coverage of corporate governance and theory, as well as current debates surrounding these areas.

Key Features

- Condenses an extremely complex subject and focuses on core principles helping students to understand the subject without compromising on academic integrity

- Includes analysis of corporate theory, offering students a broader contextual understanding of the evolving law

- Includes a strong pedagogical structure with: chapter introductions - enabling students to orientate themselves within the various aspects of company law; further reading - providing avenues for further study; and self-test questions - reinforcing learning, supporting revision, and assisting with examination recall

- Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support

New to this Edition

- Expanded coverage of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in Chapters 13 and 14, ClientEarth v Shell plc [2023]

- Covers the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024 (effective from 2025) and Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulation 2024 (SI 2024/105)

- Discussion of trading misfeasance in BHS litigation Wright v Chappell [2024]

- Includes new legislation: Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022, Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023, Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023

- Includes new cases: Stanford International Bank Ltd v HSBC Bank plc [2022], BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA [2022], Byers v Saudi National Bank [2023], Re UKCloud Ltd (in liquidation) [2024], Tianrui (International) Holding Company Ltd v China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd [2024], Syspal Capital Ltd v Truman [2025], Rukhadze v Recovery Partners GP Ltd [2025]

Digital formats and resources

The 13th edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats: the e-book and Law Trove offer a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support.

For more information about e-books, please visit www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dignam, Alan

Lowry, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART I: Fundamental Principles

- 1: Introduction to company law

- 2: Corporate personality and limited liability

- 3: Lifting the veil

- 4: Promoters and pre-incorporation contracts

- 5: Raising capital: equity and its consequences

- 6: Raising capital: debentures: fixed and floating charges

- PART II: Behind the Corporate Veil

- 7: Share capital

- 8: The constitution of the company: dealing with insiders

- 9: Classes of shares and variation of class rights

- 10: Derivative claims

- 11: Statutory shareholder remedies

- PART III: Issues of Corporate Authority

- 12: The constitution of the company: dealing with outsiders

- 13: Corporate management

- 14: Directors' duties

- 15: Corporate governance 1: corporate governance and corporate theory

- 16: Corporate governance 2: the UK corporate governance debate

- 17: Corporate rescue and liquidations in outline

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Dignam, Professor of Corporate Law, Queen Mary University of London.
John Lowry, Emeritus Professor of Law, University College London.