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The developments of company law in countries belonging to five legal families illustrate the principle-agent conflicts that company law faces and the range of solutions it offers to cope with them. Comparative company law is about learning from each other's experience in a competitive way, and...
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.K. business entities, including the U.S. corporation, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, and … limited liability company, and the U.K. limited company, general partnership, limited partnership, and limited liability … liability exposure for breaches of duty in each jurisdiction, yet provides only quite limited capacity to carve back at the …
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As attention moves rapidly towards comparative approaches, the research and teaching of company law has somehow lagged behind. The overall purpose of this book is therefore to fill a gap in the literature by identifying whether conceptual differences between countries exist. Rather than...
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This article, prepared for the Business Law Prof Blog 2017 Symposium, examines the statutory grounds available to members who seek judicial dissolution of an LLC in all fifty states plus the District of Columbia. I also examined the judicial dissolution grounds in five model statutes: the 1992...
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Despite widespread disagreement as to its merits, the doctrine of limited liability was formally introduced into … English law by the Limited Liability Act 1855. The Joint Stock Companies Act 1856 substantially modified the 1855 Act …, effectively rendering limited liability available as of right. It also extended the doctrine to Scots law. Prior to these …
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by their subsidiaries. Under the new EU Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions, parent company liability is likely to be … instruments, in particular the individual liability of executives and employees. On this basis, I conclude that it is primarily … the existence of these functional substitutes that explains why a need for parent company liability has not arisen in US …
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Stock exchanges are an important determinant of the competitiveness of Canadian capital markets. Regulators have recognized this fact when they have approved the consolidation of Canadian stock exchanges in 1999. The specialization of stock exchanges purported to enable them to cater more...
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analysis reveals that the corporate governance in these firms in terms of liability, voice and exit faces important design …
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This short article addresses a recent case involving a U.S. Senator at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that has attracted widespread legal and media attention overseas.Although overseas the regulation of so-called congressional insider trading is far more advanced than in Europe, it is...
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