Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Corporate

Sexual harassment is an epidemic which have placed the workforce for decades.This is a growing trend among women and also men. The author will share and provide the readers with tools, tips, resources, and personal experiences on how to overcome this emotional dilemma and win. This book is a non fiction book and story.

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the law of business formations in China provides quick and easy guidance on a variety of corporate and partnership considerations such as mergers, rights and duties of interested parties, stock exchange rules, labour laws, and takeovers. Lawyers who handle transnational business will appreciate the explanation of local variations in terminology and the distinctive concepts that determine practice and procedure.

A general introduction covering historical background,...

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the law of business formations in Sweden provides quick and easy guidance on a variety of corporate and partnership considerations such as mergers, rights and duties of interested parties, stock exchange rules, labour laws, and takeovers. Lawyers who handle transnational business will appreciate the explanation of local variations in terminology and the distinctive concepts that determine practice and procedure.

A general introduction covering historical background,...

Employment law has increasingly struggled to adapt to complex modern work arrangements, from agency work to corporate groups. This book suggests that the reason for this failure can be found in our concept of the employer, which has become riddled with internal contradictions in its search for a unitary employer, the counterparty to a bilateral contract, through a series of multi-functional tests focussed on the exercise of a range of employer functions. As a result of this tension, full employment law coverage is restricted to a narrow scenario where a single legal entity exercises all...

This book explores the transnational legal infrastructure for dispute resolution in transnational securities transactions. It discusses the role of law and dispute resolution in securities transactions, the types of disputes arising out of them and the institutional and legal aspects of dispute resolution, both generally and regarding aggregate litigation. It illustrates different dispute resolution systems and aggregate litigation methods and examines the legal issues of dispute resolution arising out of transnational securities transactions. In addition, the book proposes two systems of...

Corporate governance has become one of the most important issues on the business agenda, with incalculable political and social consequences both domestically and globally. The corporate objective, or for whose interests should a company be run, remains the fundamental question at the heart of corporate governance.

This book explores different approaches to the corporate objective and then goes on to discuss these approaches in the context of China due to its importance in the global economic and political arena. The book puts forward a comparative study of shareholder rights in the...

The process of economic globalization, as product and capital markets have become increasingly integrated since WWII, has placed huge, and it is argued by some, irresistible pressures on the world's 'insider' stakeholder oriented corporate governance systems. Insider corporate governance systems in countries such as Germany, so the argument goes, should converge or be transformed by global product and capital market pressures to the 'superior' shareholder oriented 'outsider' corporate governance model prevalent in the UK and the US. What these pressures from globalization are, how they...

The United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) was established in 1975 and abolished in 1992. It was an early effort by the UN to address the overlapping issues of national sovereignty, corporate responsibility and global governance. These issues have since multiplied and deepened with globalization. This book recounts the UNCTC experience and its lessons for international organizations.

This book is not only an insider perspective by two former staff but also a collective memoir of the UNCTC as an international organization that attempted with varying success to...

This volume is based on presentations delivered at a symposium held in May 2015 at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. It seeks to reinvigorate the scholarly exchange which can be traced back to the late 19th century between company law academics in Germany, China, Japan and South Korea. Contributions from all four jurisdictions include papers on directors' liability and capital maintenance as well as studies of the role of shareholders in public companies and the regulation of groups of companies.

This fifth edition of Trusts Law has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent developments in the area. The authors bring a unique combination of academic rigour and hands-on commercial experience to the explanation of their subject. These practical insights are bolstered by the inclusion of a chapter showing the steps involved in the creation of a trust, illustrated by examples of trust documentation.
Useful features include chapter summaries, self-test exercises and suggestions for further reading.

This books is an ideal companion for both law undergraduate and GDL/CPE...

By providing a comprehensive survey of the U.S. laws and a bold vision for how legal institutions across the globe could be reformed, Social Enterprise Law offers new insights and approaches to help social enterprises raise the capital they need to flourish. It offers a rich guide for students, entrepreneurs, investors, and practitioners.

While Western economies generally display dispersed shareholding in listed companies, Asian economies commonly have concentrated shareholding also in publicly listed companies. The principal analysis in Comparative Takeover Regulation relates to the role of takeover regulation in different economies. In the Asian context, the nature of takeover regulation may necessitate a different approach, with greater emphasis on the mandatory bids and disclosure of substantial shareholding. The likelihood of hostile takeovers will be minimal. It is these differences among various jurisdictions that...

This is a comprehensive guide to the tax treatment of executive reward packages, from recruitment to termination. Includes a comprehensive glossary of terms, checklists and flowcharts. The sixth edition contains analysis of: the following changes: * Taxation of pensions contributions, cap on tax relief for contributions, additional rate relief restriction, alignment of pension input periods, reduction in lifetime allowance, freedom to draw down lump sums * Termination payments Significant proposed changes in treatment * Employee Benefit Trusts: Important case law developments (Murray Group...

The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation is the first comprehensive, state of the art survey of the nature and function of financial regulation. Written by an international team of leading scholars in the field, it takes a contextual and comparative approach to examine scholarly, policy, and regulatory developments in the past three decades.

The changing roles and responsibilities of boards of directors. This book, a valuable resource for students, practitioners and policy-makers, explores the effectiveness of corporate governance codes both in terms of their content and mechanism. Using interview evidence from company directors and officers, as well as published evidence of companies corporate governance systems, it discusses the theories behind corporate governance and its regulation. This book works on the assumption that, to be effective, regulation should facilitate and encourage good board performance as well as deter poor...

Women, Business and the Law 2018