Company Law is a complete and accessible guide to the legal framework in which companies operate. Logically structured and with a readable style, the text includes helpful summaries for each chapter, along with case notes. This new edition features a comprehensive treatment of the Companies Act 2006 and other developments arising.

'Company Law is well-researched and wonderfully written...allows the reader to quickly understand this complex and often misunderstood area of law. No other company law text provides better value for money!'
- Student Law Journal

The Reasons for Forming Companies
Starting a Company
Corporate Personality
The Memorandum of Association
The Articles of Association
Power to Represent the Company
Public Issue of Securities
The Regulation of Investment Business
Maintenance of Capital
The Balance of Power Inside the Company: Corporate Governance
Directors' Duties: the General Duties
Specific Duties of Directors
Suing the Company, Suing for the Company, Enforcing Directors' Duties
Shares
Lending Money and Securing Loans
Takeovers, Reconstructions and Amalgamations
Insolvency
The Effect of the EU on English Company Law
Transglobal Corporations and World Development
Bibliography and Further Reading

JANET DINE is Professor of International Economic Development Law at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She has practised at the bar in England and Wales and lectured in law at the University of Essex, London Guildhall University and Kings College London.
 
MARIOS KOUTSIAS is a Lecturer in EU Commercial Law at the University of Essex. He has practised as a lawyer in Greece and in Brussels at the offices of the European Commission.