Derivative Actions and Corporate Governance

ISBN-13: 9780199204892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 350 str.

Arad Reisberg

Opis

This volume examines the circumstances in which a shareholder can bring an action on behalf of a company (a derivative action). It explores how this remedy may be used to ensure good corporate governance, and lays 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 jurisdictions worldwide. This book offers a conceptually inclusive approach to thinking about derivative actions by providing a detailed and clear overview, commentary, and a theoretically informed explanation of the law governing derivative actions in the corporate governance context.

Recenzje

Dr Reisberg's study is...a timely and important contribution to the scholarship on this new statutory remedy, one of company law's "most thorny aspects" (p.1), which he sees principally as a mechanism of corporate accountability (p.5)...As one has come to expect with any book appearing under the imprint of Oxford University Press, Dr Reisberg's book has been produced and edited to the highest academic and publishing standards

O autorze

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 Corporate Governance Institute) and a co-editor of Pettet's Company Law.