Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Corporate

Fur leitende Mitarbeiter und Juristen in Unternehmen gehort das Verhandeln und Formulieren von Wirtschaftsvertragen zum Arbeitsalltag. Doch oftmals unterlaufen schwerwiegende Fehler, die sich spater kaum mehr beheben lassen und hohe Kosten nach sich ziehen. Das Werk verschafft einen umfassenden Uberblick uber die Moglichkeiten der Vertragsgestaltung, zeigt vielfaltige Regelungsfallen auf und empfiehlt handhabbare Losungsvorschlage.

The 2014 Banking Law Day in Frankfurt am Main was devoted to the topics of "Non-Performing Funds" and "Consumer Credit Companies." Coordinated by Klaus Rotter and Raimund Bollenberger, lecturers from the worlds of academia and business discussed these issues.

Current debate about a supranational legal form for small and mid-sized enterprises has taken on a new direction and a new dynamic with the Commission s push for the SUP. This volume carefully traces the outlines of the new company structure and reveals the possible implications of its introduction from a range of academic, practical, and legal policy perspectives.

Pursuing claims for compensation against management and supervisory boards and senior managers is fraught with various problems. These problems arise when stockholders unconditionally "discharge" executives and only later become aware of transgressions. The study seeks to understand in which cases discharging leads to the loss of compensation rights and exempts board members from liability.

Within corporate governance the accountability of the board of directors is identified as a major issue by governments, international bodies, professional associations and academic literature.　 Boards are given significant power in companies, and as a consequence it is argued that they should be accountable for their actions. Drawing on political science, public administration, accounting, and ethics literature, this book examines the concept of accountability and its meaning in the corporate governance context. It examines the rationale for making boards accountable, and outlines...

Institutional shareholder participation has long been considered as vital to good corporate governance yet its potential does not seem to have been realized. The recent banking crisis exposed the passivity of some institutional shareholders, many of whom appear to have chosen to sell their stakes in the banks rather than intervene or challenge the board when they realized the strategies followed by the banks were excessively risky. Institutional shareholders role to scrutinize and monitor the decisions of boards and executive management in the banking sector in the UK is considered by many...

Written by leading scholars from around the world, the Handbook contains a rich variety of chapters that provide a comparative and functional overview of corporate governance. It opens with...