Unlocking Company Law

Unlocking Company Law brings the law to life with diagrams, key facts charts and activities to ensure that you engage with, and fully understand, company law. This second edition includes Focus sections that examine the law in more detail, taking a more advanced approach.

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Company law is a vibrant and fast-moving area of the legal system. Unlocking Company Law will ensure that you grasp the main concepts with ease providing you with an essential foundation to company law. The book explains in detailed, yet straightforward, terms:




Legal Structures of Business Organisations
The Company as a Distinct Legal Person
Company Formation and Linked Issues
The Constitution of the Company
Financing a Company
Shareholders, shares and share capital
Capital Maintenance and Distributions
Governance of the Company
Legally Binding the Company
Directors' duties
Rescuing Troubled Companies and Takeovers
Winding up and Dissolution
Transparency


This second edition is fully up-to-date with the latest developments in the law, including all significant new cases. It also contains new material on rescuing troubled companies and takeovers.


The Unlocking the Law series is designed specifically to make the law accessible. Each chapter opens with a list of aims and objectives, contains activities such as quick quizzes and self-test questions, key facts charts to consolidate your knowledge, and diagrams to aid learning. Cases and judgments are prominently displayed, as are primary source quotations. Summaries help check your understanding of each chapter, and there is a glossary of legal terminology.


The popular website www.unlockingthelaw.co.uk has been improved and updated. It provides free resources such as multiple choice questions, key questions and answers, revision mp3s and cases and materials exercises.