Includes index.

Contents: Introductory: Nature and functions o companies -- History of company law to 1825 -- History of company law since 1825 -- Current trends and future possibilities -- Formation of companies: Introduction: Advantages and disadvantages of incorporation -- Formation procedure -- Promoters -- The Consequences of incorporation: Introduction: Lifting the veil -- The Company's organs and officers -- The Raising and maintenance of capital -- Capital and dividends -- A Company's securities: The Nature and classification of crities -- Acquisition and disposal of company securities -- Company charges -- Companies and the security markets: Introduction: Public offers of securities -- Insider dealing -- Market transparency -- Shareholder and creditor protection: Introduction: Publicity and accounts -- Auditors -- General meetings -- Director's duties -- Enforcement of directors duties and the principle of majority rule -- Disqualification of directors -- Breach of corporate duties: administrative remedies -- Controlling members' voting -- Unfair prejudice -- Companies in trauma: Introduction: Reconstructions -- Takeovers -- Administrations, windings-up and dissolutions.