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Fiduciary Duties of Company Directors Where There is a Likelihood of Insolvency
Coimbra Henriques, Sérgio - 2020
In the field of corporate insolvency law, European Union legislation has aimed to promote the availability and success … restructuring and insolvency, which contains provisions that specifically focus on early restructuring actions, as soon as there is … a likelihood of insolvency. When a company is in the pre-insolvency situation, directors must react to the relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844476
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Sons of Gwalia and the High Court : Implications for Shareholders, Creditors and the Insolvency Framework
Hargovan, Anil; Harris, Jason - 2008
conduct provisions were able to claim status as creditors in the company's insolvency. The claims of these shareholders were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026227
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Book Reviews : Directors Duties During Insolvency (2nd) by Allens Arthur Robinson, 2007 & Company Directors' Responsibilities to Creditors by Keay A, 2006
Dickfos, Jennifer - 2013
, hereafter identified as Keay's text, and Directors' Duties During Insolvency by Allens Arthur Robinson, hereafter identified as … considered an insolvency practitioner's guide. However, both texts contain elements of interest for academics and insolvency …
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
This paper examines the origins of investor protection under the common law by analysing the development of shareholder protection in Victorian Britain, the home of the common law. In this era, very little was codified, with corporate law simply suggesting a default template of rules....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521411
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Common law and the origin of shareholder protection
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D. - 2016
This paper examines the origins of investor protection under the common law by analysing the development of shareholder protection in Victorian Britain, the home of the common law. In this era, very little was codified, with corporate law simply suggesting a default template of rules....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523499
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Financialization made in Germany - a review
Detzer, Daniel - 2019
This article examines the spread of financialization in Germany before the financial crisis. It provides an up-to date overview on the literature on financialization and reviews which of the phenomena typically associated with financialization have emerged in Germany. In particular, the article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060679
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Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D.; … - 2014
Using ownership and control data for 890 firm-years, this paper examines the concentration of capital and voting rights in British companies in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that both capital and voting rights were diffuse by modern-day standards. This implies that ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235904
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Ownership and control in the entrepreneurial firm : an international history of private limited companies
Guinnane, Timothy; Harris, Ron; Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; … - 2007
We use the history of private limited liability companies (PLLCs) to challenge two pervasive assumptions in the literature: (1) Anglo-American legal institutions were better for economic development than continental Europe’s civil-law institutions; and (2) the corporation was the superior form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811001
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Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Turner, John D.; … - 2014
Using ownership and control data for 890 firm-years, this paper examines the concentration of capital and voting rights in British companies in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that both capital and voting rights were diffuse by modern-day standards. This implies that ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347682
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Does mandatory shareholder voting prevent bad acquisitions?
Becht, Marco; Polo, Andrea; Rossi, Stefano - 2014
Shareholder voting on corporate acquisitions is controversial. In most countries acquisition decisions are delegated to boards and shareholder approval is discretionary, which makes existing empirical studies inconclusive. We study the U.K. setting where shareholder approval is imposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387165