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• Title:Gower : principles of modern company law.
  
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• Variant Title:Principles of modern company law
  Gower's principles of modern company law
  
• Author/Creator:Davies, P. L. (Paul Lyndon), author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Gower, L. C. B. (Laurence Cecil Bartlett)
  Hare, Christopher, 1973-
  Worthington, Sarah, author.
  Micheler, Eva, author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Thomson Reuters (Professional) UK Ltd, trading as Sweet & Maxwell, 2021.
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KD2079 .G68 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Corporation law--Great Britain.
  
• Edition:Eleventh edition / Paul L. Davies QC (hon), FBA, Sarah Worthington QC (hon), FBA, Christopher Hare ; with a contribution from Professor Eva Micheler.
  
• Description:clxii, 1, 294 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Classics series (London)
  
• Summary:Gower and Davies is the clearest and most reliable text available to cover the increasingly complex subject of company law. Students, as well as those involved in company law on a day-to-day basis, can turn to Gower and Davies secure in the knowledge that it will be an interesting, thought provoking and above all understandable exposition of both law and practice. -- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Earlier editions entered under: Gower, L.C.B. (Laurence Cecil Bartlett).
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780414088115 (paperback)
  0414088115 (paperback)
  
• Contents: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
  7. The limits of separate legal personality and limited liability
  8. Corporate actions
  9. The board and its directors
  10. Directors' duties
  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
  16. Legal capital, minimum capital and verification
  17. Capital maintenance
  18. Distributions and transfers at an undervalue
  19. Undermining creditors' claims
  20. Disqualification of directors
  21. Breach of corporate duties: administrative remedies
  22. Accounts and reports
  23. Audits and auditors
  24. Share issues: general rules
  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
  31. Debts and debt securities
  32. Company charges
  33. Managing distressed or defunct companies.