Short description
An addition to the debate on the structure of corporate governance and the controls, both legal and institutional, that should be exercised over corporate management. The contributors stress the wider commercial and financial ramifications of the relevant legal structures and rules.
Long description
The origins of this book lie in the Second Oxford Law Colloquium held in September 1992 and organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford and Allen & Overy. The subject of this volume, corporate governance, is one that is currently highly topical but which has a long intellectual pedigree. Ever since the formation of the first joint stock company there has been a continuing debate about the structure of corporate governance and the controls, both legal and institutional, that are, or should be, exercised over corporate management. The essays contained in the volume explore the debate from a variety of perspectives, but each keeps in mind that a clear understanding of the wider commercial and financial context is necessary before examining the relevant legal structures and rules. This wider picture is examined at both a national and comparative level, and the attitudes and practices of managers and investors are considered as part of the backdrop to competing theories on corporate governance. The contributors, drawn from the practising and the academic worlds, bring their own specialist knowledge to bear in a volume which will be required reading for all those interested in the subject. Contributors: Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Eddy Wymeersch, Sir Adrian Cadbury, Paul Rutteman, Paul Davies, Lord Alexander of Weedon, Paddy Linaker, Martin Lipton, Alan Paul, Theodor Baums, Geoff Stapledon.
Review
A useful acquisition for students of international legal process, international business transactions, and corporations. --Bimonthly Review of Law Books
Table of contents
- Introduction
- PART I
- AN OVERVIEW OF THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DEBATE
- The Corporate Governance Discussion in some European States
- Some Aspects of the Corporate Governance Debate
- PART II
- THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
- Highlights of the Proposals of the Committee on Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance
- Corporate Governance and the Auditors
- PART III
- THE ROLE OF THE INSTITUTIONAL SHAREHOLDERS
- Institutional Investors in the United Kingdom
- Corporate Governance
- the Role of the Banks
- The Institutional InvestorDSInvestment from M & G's Viewpoint
- PART IV
- THE ROLE OF TAKEOVER BIDS
- Takeover Bids and United States Corporate Governance
- Corporate Governance in the Context of Takeovers of UK Public Companies
- Takeovers vs
- Institutions in Corporate Governance in Germany
- PART V
- THE ROLE OF LITIGATION
- The AWA Case
- Non
- Executive Directors, Auditors and Corporate Governance Issues in Court