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- Summary
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"A study guide for law school students taking a course called Corporations or Business Organizations or similar. Audience: Second- and third-year law school students"--
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- Creator
- Alan R. Palmiter, William T. Wilson, III, Presidential Chair for Business Law, Wake Forest University
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ninth edition
- New York : Wolters Kluwer, [2021]
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- xxxiv, 861 pages ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781543805659, 1543805655, 9781543819984
- OCLC
- on1195817055
- Includes index.
- The corporation : an overview -- Choice of organizational form -- Incorporation : how, where, and what -- Financial rights in corporation -- Federal regulation of securities offerings -- Shareholders' role in corporate governance -- Corporate voting structure -- Judicial protection of voting rights -- Federal regulation of proxy voting -- Proxy fraud -- Corporate fiduciary duties : an introduction -- Duty of care and the business judgment rule -- Duty of loyalty : self-dealing transactions -- Executive compensation -- Indemnification and insurance -- Corporate opportunities and unfair competition -- Duties of controlling shareholders (Corporate Groups) -- Shareholder litigation -- Share transferability : an introduction -- Limitations on control sales -- Disclosure in securities trading markets -- Securities fraud : Rule 10b-5 -- Insider trading -- Disgorgement of short-swing profits -- Close corporation : an introduction -- Planning in close corporation -- Oppression in close corporation -- Limited liability : an overview -- Promoter liability during incorporation -- Authority to bind the corporation -- Limitations on corporate distributions -- Piercing the corporate veil -- Statutory recognition of corporation -- Takeovers : an introduction -- Fundamental changes -- Mergers & acquisitions -- Appraisal remedy -- Federal regulation of tender offers -- Takeover defenses