Includes index.

Contents: Introduction to company law -- Corporate personality and limited liability -- Lifting the veil -- Promoters and pre-incorporation contracts -- Raising capital: equity and its consequences -- Raising capital: debentures: fixed and floating charges -- Share capital -- The constitution of the company: dealing with insiders -- Classes of shares and variation of class rights -- Derivative claims -- Statutory shareholder remedies -- The constitution of the company: dealing with outsiders -- Corporate management -- Director's duties -- Corporate governance 1: corporate governance and corporate theory -- Corporate governance 2: the UK corporate governance debate -- Corporate rescure and liquidations.