This article discusses the extent to which rule of law principles have been embraced within the language, principles and practice of China’s Company Law. The paper discusses different understandings of the rule of law that are to be found in the wider literature. Whilst China has affirmed the...

The laws of Malaysia place responsibility upon individual to help prevent money laundering activities. This article briefly introduced the processes involved in typical money laundering process and various reporting obligations imposed by the Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful...

Nineteenth century English companies law has been one of the most enduring of legal institutions, and thanks to the reach of the old British empire, it made its way to the furthest corners of the world. Commonwealth countries used the U.K. Companies Act as model legislation, updating their own...

This chapter discusses the legal issues of rescue and corporate social responsibility during times of public crisis. It analyzes a corporate board's fiduciary duty related to the management of a public crisis and the provision of aid to government and the public. The thesis is that American...

Written by leading academics in the area, Pettet, Lowry & Reisberg's Company Law offers comprehensive coverage of all major company law and financial regulation topics. It also introduces you to the theories, policies and wider socio-economic and political influences that underpin the legal...

Offensive shareholder activism (more commonly known as hedge fund activism) can be understood as a corrective mechanism in the governance of a public company. The legitimacy of offensive shareholder activism as a corrective mechanism is based on numerous empirical studies that have found this...

This chapter examines and challenges the dominant academic portrayal of Anglo-American corporate law as an aspect of private law, and argues for a re-characterisation of the subject that reflects the centrality of public regulation to its core dynamics. It first explores the purported...

Most directors and senior managers of UK companies would likely regard it as trite law that, in undertaking their managerial and/or control functions, they are accountable first and foremost to their employer firm's general body of shareholders. It follows that the interests of other corporate...

This chapter analyses the Pacific Alliance – an economic bloc formed by Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru in 2011 – and its integrated stock exchange, the Mercado Integrado Latinoamericano (MILA). It contends that the Alliance has the potential to foster the transition toward a sustainable...