Legal issues and litigation in modern corporate finance

Cover -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- A survey of litigation in corporate finance -- On the role of the chief risk officer and the risk committee in insuring financial institutions against litigation -- Securities class actions and operating performance -- Female business leaders and the incidence of fraud litigation -- The litigation of tax benefit preservation plans -- The corporate governance endgame - minority squeeze-out regulation and post-deallitigation in Germany -- Insider trading surrounding securities class action litigation and settlement announcements -- Does institutional investors' monitoring substitute for litigation in curbing insider trading? The case of Malaysia.