This is the first book to provide a complete comparative analysis of expedited corporate debt restructuring alternatives in the European Union. The work considers the different options available to a company facing a distress scenario and focuses on the options that provide expedited solutions to these issues. The techniques considered in full include: (1) out-of-court reorganization or (non-insolvency process-related) private workouts; (2) pre-packaged reorganization plans; and, (3) pre-arranged or pre-negotiated reorganization plans. The merits and suitability of each technique are considered and case studies are used to illustrate these points in each chapter. A considerable feature of the work is the jurisdiction analysis which allows the reader to compare the law and practice related to each method in each of the EU member states. Each country chapter sets out the relevant legal framework, illustrates its practical application and highlights potential problems through the use of case studies. The aim of the book is to work as a toolkit, a first point of reference for anyone dealing with companies in distress in the EU. In addition to the jurisdictional analysis, the thematic chapter provide an introduction to the techniques discussed and cover common issues for all EU jurisdictions.

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Designed to save the American business owner thousands of dollars in legal fees, this book contains all of the legal forms and guides, by state, for Limited Liability Corporation filings.

The purpose of this book is to provide M&A attorneys and business people with a universal, practicable and effective process for analyzing any M&A contract using Ten and only Ten basic questions. This process has been successfully applied to all types of M&A transactions ranging from the purchase of a franchise to the sale of a publicly traded company. By using this process, the reader can gain a significant competitive advantage in analyzing, negotiating and structuring Mergers and Acquisitons.

Updated December 2013 and includes changes that become effective Jan. 6, 2014. It is updated to regularly reflect changes made to the ITAR as indicated on the Department of State website. From DDTC "Any person who engages in the United States in the business of either manufacturing or exporting defense articles or furnishing defense services is required to register..." ITAR "It is the contractor's responsibility to comply with all applicable laws and regulations regarding export-controlled items." DFAR Companies that provide defense goods and services need to know the rules; the ITAR provides the answers. The International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) is the defense product and service provider's guide book for knowing when and how to obtain an export license. This book provides answers to: Which defense contractors should register with the DDTC? Which defense commodities require export licenses? Which defense services require export licenses? What are corporate and government export responsibilities? What constitutes an export? How does one apply for a license or technical assistance agreement?

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A recognized study of the disparate roles that corporate attorneys play in representing and advising their institutional clients. Long passed around and cited by scholars and practicing lawyers as an unpublished manuscript, this book insightfully explores the choices that lawyers, managers and executives make about how lawyers are involved in corporate processes. In the companies studied, Professor Rosen showed that corporate lawyers were repeatedly intertwined in decisions-beyond those regarding mere legal compliance-ranging from finance to production to sales to returns to litigation. But the how, when and consequences of their involvements varied. The book analyzes these variations. It examines relations between inside and outside counsel and the management of the corporate legal function. It locates them in a taut framework of organization theory and institutional behavior, a framework and application since recognized for its cogency and explanatory power. The author, now a senior professor at the University of Miami Law School, repeatedly calls on attorneys to understand the organizational context of their work. His book repeatedly calls out attorneys who ill serve their clients because they failed as organizational analysts. It has since been recognized by legal, ethical, and sociological theorists as a rich resource of corporate analysis and the divergent roles that lawyers play. The groundbreaking research was conducted at six major manufacturing companies as Rosen interviewed a triad of inside counsel, outside counsel and managers who worked on particular problems. This novel method allowed self-serving statements (especially by the lawyers involved) to be checked and placed in realistic context. More important, because it triangulated how the legal problem was understood, the method brought out how the legal task had been structured. The frames that the lawyers, managers and organization imposed on the legal problems varied widely-and the sources and consequences of these variations are detailed and explained. The book's published edition is newly available, but the manuscript has already earned scholarly impact and praise. For example, the Yale Law Journal noted in 1996 that "Rosen's important manuscript is widely cited in recent literature on legal professionalism." It has been cited in articles in the law reviews of Boston University, Indiana University, University of Maryland, and Emory, and the Law & Society Review. At bottom, researchers and pundits on corporate theory and lawyers' roles have already had to account for this telling study, and at last they can readily reference it in quality printed and digital formats. "Lawyers in Corporate Decision-Making should be read by everyone interested in how law matters to organizations of all kinds." - Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law "Rob Rosen's study of in house counsel is a deft, subtle dissection of a complex world where nothing is as it quite seems. In interviewing in house counsel, outside counsel, and clients, Rosen captures, in a Rashomon-like way, the moral character of lawyers' work-their choices, their pitches, their claims-by which they justify what they do. We see inside the professional black box." - John Flood Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Westminster, London "Robert Rosen takes us inside large law firms to explore how corporate lawyers advise their clients and how that advice can go wrong. The case studies he describes-including four situations in which the legal advice failed-show how important it is for lawyers to frame the clients' needs appropriately. Rosen's ability to weave together the importance of organizational hierarchy, coordination of responsibility, thoroughness of communication, and business acumen makes this book a 'must-read' for lawyers and law students alike." - Nancy B. Rapoport Gordon Silver Professor of Law, UNLV, and Coauthor of "Enron and Other Corporate Fiascos"

Recent decades have witnessed environmental, social, and economic upheaval, with major corporations contributing to a host of interconnected crises. The Corporation as Technology examines the dynamics of the corporate form and corporate law that incentivize harmful excesses and presents an alternative vision to render corporate activities more sustainable. The corporate form is commonly described as a set of fixed characteristics that strongly prioritize shareholders' interests. This book subverts this widely held belief, suggesting that such rigid depictions reinforce harmful corporate pathologies, including excessive risk-taking and lack of regard for environmental and social impacts. Instead, corporations are presented as a dynamic legal technology that policymakers can re-calibrate over time in response to changing landscapes. This book explores the theoretical and practical ramifications of this alternative vision, focusing on how the corporate form can help secure an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable future.

This report describes a framework used to organize available empirical information on one form of performance-based management, a performance-based accountability system (PBAS), which identifies individuals or organizations that must change their behavior to improve an activity1s performance, an incentive structure to motivate those changes, and measures tailored to inform the incentive structure.

Corporate governance is a highly appealing field of economic theory. Its origins can be traced all the way back to Adam Smith. And as the separation of ownership and control is inherent in the modern corporate, the issues of corporate governance mentioned in essay one have not lost relevance. Further we can observe two main areas of interest in decision-making in corporate finance. Besides the debt-versus-equity decision-making there is also the factor of debt maturity, which is of the same importance but is usually not the focus of financial research. Essay two presents evidence for Czech firms. However despite the huge theoretical and empirical literature on the determinants of the capital structure there is surprisingly limited empirical evidence on more practical opinions of company financial managers. Essay three seeks to answer practical questions on the perception of corporate financing and explains the management behavior in the financial decision-making. Researchers in economic theory as well as financial practitioners not only from transition countries might find this book useful and worth to read.

Econometric Analysis of Corporate Governance in India empirically examines the influence of corporate governance framework on firm performance and dividend policy, for an unbalanced panel of Indian corporate firms. The book finds that after controlling for observed firm characteristics and unobserved firm heterogeneity, the shareholding by institutional investors and directors affect firm performance. Also the equity ownership by dominant group influences firm-performance only in case of managerial ownership. However, there is no evidence in favor of endogeneity in ownership structure. Unobserved firm heterogeneity is found to be significant. In analyzing the dividends payout behavior, the author suggests an empirical model to explain the dividend payout behavior, with the help of firms financial structure and investments opportunities along with dividends, earnings, and ownership structure.

All over the world, some corporate activities produce crimes, hurt and kill people, misappropriate funds, pollute minds and the environment, deceive, defraud and despoil to an extent unrivaled by conventional crimes. The forms of crimes range from corporate fraud, commercial pollution of air and water, and crimes relating to trade descriptions, food, hygiene, pensions, health and safety, and securities among others, all with their adverse effects on shareholders, individuals and the public. In relation to Nigeria, this book attempts to proffer answers to the following liability questions: what rationale, if any, exists to justify the imposition of criminal liability on corporations? Which category of officers or persons and in what circumstances should they have acted for the company in order to ground criminal liability. Which crimes do corporations commit? What appropriate sanctions can be imposed upon conviction and to what extent can these sanctions deter corporate criminality? Corporate Criminal Liability in Nigeria establishes concrete conceptual and legal bases for corporate criminal liability in Nigeria, and given the notorious inability of regulatory agencies in Africa to rein in the excesses of commercial and industrial organisations, it ends with an examination of the possibility of developing an effective corporate criminal liability administration in Nigeria. Dr Linus Ali is former Head of Department of Commercial Law, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Law and currently a member of Senate, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.

"A Comparative Analysis of Corporate Fraud: Book Four" examines corporate fraud in the United Kingdom compared with that of two civil law neighbouring countries, France and Germany, as well as the United States. The objective of the study is to discover how fraud occurs, how the two different legal systems treat fraud, contributing factors, and if recommendations were made to authorities in an attempt to combat this illegal activity.

The UK can learn much from the French legal system and the way France prosecutes corporations. Germany's Criminal Code is equally comprehensive in its prescriptive definitions of fraud, especially corporate fraud. Although the UK is striving for a general law against fraud, the UK Fraud Offence Bill is very inadequate, lacking detailed solutions. The UK has become entrenched in upholding legal privilege, bowing to intense lobbying by the legal profession. And the use of electronic evidence, vital in prosecuting modern corporate fraud, remains overlooked.

The attitude toward corporate fraud in the UK remains laissez-faire. By analysing corporate fraud in the US, France, and Germany, author Sally Ramage highlights examples that the UK can take from these countries that combat corporate fraud without derogation of established international human rights.

Family philanthropy around the world is a dynamic and important part of the overall social change landscape. However, with more and more individuals and families involved in this space and the ever increasing variety of approaches and choices, it is a vast and sometimes confusing subject and it can be difficult for families and their advisers who have an interest in philanthropy to know where to begin. This Special Report aims to demystify the topic and presents in a clear and easy-to-understand format the philanthropy choices available to families. Edited by Barbara R Hauser, it brings together a variety of international experts including from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Farrer & Co and the National Philanthropic Trust, who cover, amongst other key topics: How families can make decisions about their philanthropy activities; Donor advised funds; Ways in which families can support cultural organisations, such as museums; and Leaving a legacy for the next generations. There is also consideration of philanthropy in different jurisdictions, and the growing impact of wealthy women with inspiring examples from around the world. Whether read in one sitting or used as a resource to dip into when specific topics are of interest, this unique collection is designed to inspire families thinking of philanthropy, and will be essential reading on this important topic.

This book has had a consistent record of success and popularity over the last forty-one years. The new edition is thoroughly revised and updated and incorporates changes introduced in the statute law as also the significant developments in case-law. The Companies Act was amended twice earlier to the present edition. One of the Amendment Acts brought into the Companies Act a huge new part on producer companies. The Second Amendment Act, 2002 apart from making other changes, also brought in a new part providing for Revival and Rehabilitation of Sick Industrial Companies. The Amendment of 2006 has added a few provisions to bring about the requirement that all directors, existing or proposed, should obtain an identification number. The Amendment also enables filing and inspection of documents through electronic media. There have been significant developments in the judicial front also which have been discussed by the author analytically and incorporated at the respective place in the book. This very popular work has been the prescribed textbook in almost all law colleges in India through its several editions. Company executives, chartered accountants and company secretaries find it extremely useful in their day to day work. It is also beneficial to the legal profession and students of CA, CS, ICWA and other professional courses. This most lucid text deserves a place in all the law libraries.

This text introduces the reader to the principles and practice of merger control in the EC and the UK. It deals clearly with both of the new regimes, providing a discussion of the policy and the relevant legislation, clarified through an analysis of pertinent cases and decisions. The aim is to provide the non-expert reader with a thorough and accessible introduction to the subject. The book deals first with matters common to both regimes, including relevant economics, and then focuses on the EC and UK systems as separate entities. In each case the text covers qualifying mergers, including principles of territorial jurisdiction, substantive tests, procedures, appeals, and third party rights, as well as the link between the UK and EC regimes. The book is up to date to 31 July 2006. Substantial appendices provide most of the relevant core legislation in one convenient place.

We the People describes a new method of governing ourselves that creates more inclusive and efficient organizations. The United States Declaration of Independence asserted that all human beings are created equally and endowed by society with the unquestionable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In practice, however, these rights are often limited to the majority, the rich, or the property owners. Sociocracy ensures these rights to everyone, and in the process, makes profit-making businesses more profitable and non-profit organizations more effective. Using consent and collaboration as a foundaation for decision-making and communications, it builds a strong governance structure that extends from the mailroom to the boardroom and from the client to the funders. Using the new sciences of cybernetics, systems thinkng, and complexity theory, it creates organizations that are as powerful, self-organizing, and self-correcting as the natural world.