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Two recent cases, one from New Zealand and the other from the UK, highlight issues relating to the intersection between company law and securities law. In one, the directors attempted to defend alleged breaches of the statutory duty to make full prospectus disclosure by asserting that they were...
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This chapter considers the landmark status of the House of Lords in Thorner v Major [2009] UKHL 18, understanding it as an example of story-telling in the law. The chapter explores the issues surrounding the equitable doctrine of proprietary estoppel, as it applies in particular in the context...
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This Article is the first comprehensive study of how American courts have resolved conflicts of laws arising from cross-border torts over the last four decades. This period coincides with the confluence of two independent forces: (1) a dramatic increase in the frequency and complexity of...
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Recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence have revived long-standing debates about what happens when robots become smarter than humans. Will they destroy us? Will they put us all out of work? Will they lead to a world of techno-savvy haves and techno-ignorant have-nots? These...
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Given recent empirical work suggesting that Canada is one of two countries in which outcomes favourable to shareholder activists are more likely than in the US, one might wonder whether shareholders in Canadian public companies have become too empowered. This concern is perhaps especially acute...
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"Legal valuation" - the resolution of disputes over the value of legal entitlements - is an inevitable aspect of any legal system. Across time and place and doctrinal boundaries, the problem is the same: each side seeks to have a self-servingly high or low figure assigned to the entitlement in...
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Vorgaben wie Basel II und III. Daher greift das vorliegende Buch zunächst die Unternehmensbewertung als ein zentrales Thema auf … Rechnungswesen, Finanzen und Einkauf, seit 2011 Vorstand der vwd group AG, notiert im General Standard Frankfurt, und als CFO … verantwortlich für die Bereiche Rechnungswesen, Finanzen, Administration, Beteiligungen und Personal. Dr. Ingo Lippmann Dipl …
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