Das essential vermittelt den typischen Ablauf von M&A-Transaktionen aus Kaufer- und Verkaufersicht. Neben der Darstellung der einzelnen Prozessschritte und praktischen Herausforderungen von der Due Diligence bis hin zu Signing und Closing erlautert der Autor auch die ublichen Verhandlungsstrategien und Motive der Beteiligten eines Unternehmenskaufs. Rechtliche Aspekte der erforderlichen Dokumente (NDA, LOI, Due Diligence Report, Kaufvertrag) werden dabei ebenso beleuchtet wie organisatorische Themen, beispielsweise die Post-Merger-Integration. Der Leser erhalt zusatzlich hilfreiche gesellschaftsrechtliche und arbeitsrechtliche Einblicke. Das essential enthalt zahlreiche Musterformulierungen sowie eine ausfuhrliche Checkliste zur Legal Due Diligence.

Band I - in drei Teilbande aufgeteilt - befasst sich mit den Grundlagen des allgemeinen Volkerrechts, dem Staat als dem nach wie vor wichtigsten Volkerrechtssubjekt und seinen Beziehungen. Im ersten Teilband werden die soziologischen Voraussetzungen, die Grundlagen und Rechtsquellen des Volkerrechts und anschliessend der Staat, seine Organe und das Staatsgebiet behandelt."

Die als sog. "Direktabspaltung" diskutierte Form der Abspaltung ist ein besonderer Fall der theoretischen Diskussion einer umwandlungsrechtlichen Gestaltung, die in der Praxis allerdings - so scheint es - tatsachlich nicht aufgegriffen wird. Mit dieser Gestaltungsidee sollen in Anwendung des Umwandlungsrechts Anteile der Muttergesellschaft an einer Tochtergesellschaft direkt und unmittelbar an die Gesellschafter der Muttergesellschaft ausgeschuttet werden. Soweit sich die Rechtsliteratur mit diesem Thema befasst, bejaht es die Zulassigkeit einer Direktabspaltung. Allerdings drangt sich die Frage auf, warum ein gemass der theoretischen Rechtsdiskussion angeblich zulassiger Transaktionsweg tatsachlich dennoch gemieden wird, welche Unsicherheiten die Praxis von einer Verwendung abhalt und ob eine Direktabspaltung bei genauer Betrachtung rechtlich wirklich zulassig ist. Diesen Fragen will die vorliegende Arbeit nachgehen, um die wahren Grunde fur die praktische Zuruckhaltung bei der Anwendung der Direktabspaltung zu erkennen

The Short Contract is an alternative to NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract and is for use with contracts which do not require sophisticated management techniques, comprise straightforward work and impose only low risks on both the employer and the Contractor. This document contains the contract clauses and the form for contract data. Construction Clients' Board endorsement of NEC3 The Construction Clients' Board (formerly Public Sector Clients' Forum) recommends that public sector organisations use the NEC3 contracts when procuring construction. Standardising use of this comprehensive suite of contracts should help to deliver efficiencies across the public sector and promote behaviours in line with the principles of Achieving Excellence in Construction.

Quick, concise and direct, this pocketbook outlines the essentials that every architect needs to know about construction disputes - from tips on avoiding them in the first place and informally negotiating issues as they arise, to how to go about settling full-blown disputes more formally. The only easy-reference pocket book available on construction dispute management. Aimed at Part 3 students and practitioners working in small practices - a huge segment of the industry.

All purchasing activities take place within a context of legal regulation, a context that has been taking on increasing importance in recent years. This book provide a clear and concise account of the underlying legal principles which affect the purchasing function. A new component of the third edition is an additional appendix which contains recent cases involving procurement law issues. These are kept separate from the main body of the book and are not essential for purposes of revising for the Legal Aspects exam. However, they do provide useful examples of how the courts have been interpreting the law in relation to a wide range of procurement activities in the recent past. These include the EU public procurement rules, contract formation, assessment of claimable damages, limitations of liability, the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations, the Freedom of Information Act, and the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act.

The new edition of this leading work continues to provide full analysis of the legal and practical aspects arising in trusts disputes, with attention to jurisdiction-specific issues covering ten of the most relevant territories. Since the last edition the law has developed at a fast pace and trust disputes continue to increase as international trusts reach the second, third and sometimes fourth generation of beneficiary. In particular, there have been changes made to the law of succession in England and Wales (Intestacy Rules 2014) and case law such as Ilott v The Blue Cross [2017] which consider the implications for family provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. Developments relating to the position of trusts in matrimonial disputes are analysed and the issues for trust disputes and rights to information under The Data Protection Act (Dawson Damer v Taylor Wessing [2017]) are also included. Other important case law which is now considered include Pitt v Holt, re Futter [2013] and the development of the law of mistake thereafter, and the Pugachev litigation on sham trusts. International Trust Disputes provides a comprehensive and thorough treatment of this topic. Acting as a specialist guide for practitioners, it offers a survey of the special considerations that may arise with regard to trust disputes as well as a definitive guide to the issues which may be encountered in the jurisdictions where disputes are most likely to take place.

When Steven Burd, CEO of the supermarket chain Safeway, cut wages and benefits, starting a five-month strike by 59,000 unionized workers, he was confident he would win. But where traditional labor action failed, a novel approach was more successful. With the aid of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, a $300 billion pension fund, workers led a shareholder revolt that unseated three of Burd's boardroom allies. In The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor's Last Best Weapon, David Webber uses cases such as Safeway's to shine a light on labor's most potent remaining weapon: its multitrillion-dollar pension funds. Outmaneuvered at the bargaining table and under constant assault in Washington, state houses, and the courts, worker organizations are beginning to exercise muscle through markets. Shareholder activism has been used to divest from anti-labor companies, gun makers, and tobacco; diversify corporate boards; support Occupy Wall Street; force global warming onto the corporate agenda; create jobs; and challenge outlandish CEO pay. Webber argues that workers have found in labor's capital a potent strategy against their exploiters. He explains the tactic's surmountable difficulties even as he cautions that corporate interests are already working to deny labor's access to this powerful and underused tool. The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder is a rare good-news story for American workers, an opportunity hiding in plain sight. Combining legal rigor with inspiring narratives of labor victory, Webber shows how workers can wield their own capital to reclaim their strength.

The behavior of managers-such as the rewards they obtain for poor performance, the role of boards of directors in monitoring managers, and the regulatory framework covering the corporate governance mechanisms that are put in place to ensure managers' accountability to shareholder and other stakeholders-has been the subject of extensive media and policy scrutiny in light of the financial crisis of the early 2000s. However, corporate governance covers a much broader set of issues, which requires detailed assessment as a central issue of concern to business and society. Critiques of traditional governance research based on agency theory have noted its "under-contextualized" nature and its inability to compare accurately and explain the diversity of corporate governance arrangements across different institutional contexts. The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance aims at closing these theoretical and empirical gaps. It considers corporate governance issues at multiple levels of analysis-the individual manager, firms, institutions, industries, and nations-and presents international evidence to reflect the wide variety of perspectives. In analyzing the effects of corporate governance on performance, a variety of indicators are considered, such as accounting profit, economic profit, productivity growth, market share, proxies for environmental and social performance, such as diversity and other aspects of corporate social responsibility, and of course, share price effects. In addition to providing a high level review and analysis of the existing literature, each chapter develops an agenda for further research on a specific aspect of corporate governance. This Handbook constitutes the definitive source of academic research on corporate governance, synthesizing studies from economics, strategy, international business, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, business ethics, accounting, finance, and law.

Do your students struggle to engage with legal topics? Look no further than Marson & Ferris' Business Law to help them actively engage with the law, understand it, and approach it with confidence. Written with business, management, and finance and accounting students in mind, the authors put the law into a context that they can easily understand by introducing case studies in every chapter. 'Business Scenarios' help the students contextualize the law by presenting the reader with an example of an everyday problem which demonstrates how the law can affect a company, employer, employee, or other individual. Throughout each chapter the students are asked to pause and consider how the content applies to these routine business problems, enabling them to become active readers and think independently about how the law operates. The first chapter provides a helpful guide to studying the law and advice on how to excel in assessments so that students can fulfil their potential. This chapter includes a sample problem question and model answer. Further sample problem and essay questions can be found at the end of chapters, giving readers an opportunity to test their understanding and practise for assessments. Students will be able to find indicative answers to these questions hosted with the online resources for this book. At the end of each chapter the authors provide further reading suggestions to guide students that want to deepen their knowledge, including well-maintained and trusted websites, Twitter feeds, and YouTube channels in addition to suitable books and articles. Digital formats and resources This edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. - The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks - The online resources include flashcard cases, self-test questions and answers with feedback, and additional material on legislation.

Die Planung und Errichtung von Bauwerken ist ein haftungstrachtiges Abenteuer. Neue verbraucherschutzende Normen erhoehen die rechtlichen Anforderungen an Architekten- und Ingenieurleistungen. Erwartungen zahlreicher Beteiligter mit z.T. kontraren Interessen sind zu erfullen: ein risikoreiches Unterfangen. Birgit Brixius zeigt auf, unter welchen Voraussetzungen, in welchem Umfang und wie lange Architekten und Ingenieure fur eigene bzw. Leistungen Dritter haften. Kurz und leicht verstandlich erlautert die Autorin anhand von Urteilen und Beispielen mit vertiefenden Literaturempfehlungen komplexe zivilrechtliche Haftungsfragen. Hierdurch erleichtert sie es Architekten und Ingenieuren, aber auch Bauherren, Haftungsfallen zu umgehen und einen reibungslosen Bauablauf zu gewahrleisten. Die Autorin: Ass. iur. Birgit Brixius verfugt uber fast zwei Jahrzehnte Erfahrung als Rechtsanwaltin. Heute lehrt sie u.a. oeffentliches und privates Baurecht fur angehende Immobilienmanager an der IUBH, einer internationalen, staatlich anerkannten, privaten Hochschule, in Dusseldorf. Ihr Anliegen ist es, anspruchsvolles juristisches Fachwissen auch Nichtjuristen verstandlich zu vermitteln.

Jean L. Saliba beschreibt den konzeptionellen Ansatz eines branchenunabhangigen Vertragsmanagements in einem Unternehmen. Vertrage sind die Basis fur das betriebswirtschaftliche und rechtliche Handeln in allen Organisationseinheiten eines Unternehmens. Sie bilden die Grundlage fur alle Geschaftsprozesse und die damit verbundenen Geschaftsbeziehungen mit Vertragspartnern. Der Aufbau eines Vertragsmanagements bedarf der Berucksichtigung vertragsrelevanter Risikophasen. Nur durch die planerische Berucksichtigung aller Lebensphasen eines Vertrags und das Ergreifen von praventiven, aktiven und reaktiven Massnahmen im Zusammenhang mit Vertragen koennen rechtliche Pflichten bedient, relevante Risiken vermieden und Potenziale signifikant gehoben werden.

Christa Kolodej und Petra Smutny zeigen Handlungsmoeglichkeiten fur Fuhrungskrafte und Personalverantwortliche bei Mobbing in ihrem Einflussbereich auf. Mobbing wird als kontextbezogenes Phanomen vorgestellt, welches spezifische macht-, gruppen- und rollendynamische Prozesse aufweist. Es werden sowohl aus psychologischer als auch aus juristischer Sicht relevante Interventionen verdeutlicht. Das Buch wird mit praktischen Praventions- und Interventionstipps fur Fuhrungskrafte abgerundet, die aus Best-Practice-Beispielen von Fuhrungskraften abgeleitet wurden. Die Autorinnen: Prof. Dr. Dr. Christa Kolodej, MA ist Pionierin der oesterreichischen Mobbingforschung und leitet seit 20 Jahren das Zentrum fur Konflikt- und Mobbingberatung in Wien. Sie coacht Fuhrungskrafte und Personalverantwortliche und unterstutzt Unternehmen bei der Implementierung von Konfliktmanagementsystemen. Maga Petra Smutny, LL.M, ist Rechtsanwaltin und eingetragene Mediatorin in Wien, OEsterreich, und beschaftigte sich als Richterin, Vorsitzende der Gleichbehandlungskommission und Autorin seit vielen Jahren mit den Themen Mobbing, Antidiskriminierung und Fuhrungsverhalten.

The Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance, better known as the Cadbury Committee, was set up in May 1991 to address the concerns increasingly voiced at that time about how UK companies dealt with financial reporting and accountability and the wider implications of this. The Committee was sponsored by the London Stock Exchange, the Financial Reporting Council, and the accountancy profession, and published its final report and recommendations in December 1992. Central to these was a Code of Best Practice and the requirement for companies to comply or to explain to their shareholders why they had not done so. The recommendations and the Code provided the foundation for the current system of corporate governance in the UK and have proved very influential in corporate governance developments throughout the world. While academics and practitioners have explored and discussed the developments in corporate governance since 1992, little attention has been paid to the processes of code and policy development. This book explores the origins of the Committee, provides rich insights in to the way in which it worked, and documents the reaction to the publication of the Committee's report. The issues which the Committee addressed are still of great concern: the complex relationships through which corporations are held to account have profound effects on all our lives. The Committee provided a framework for thinking about these issues and established a process through which such thinking could be articulated and continue to evolve. This book represents a major contribution to the history of the development of UK corporate governance in the late twentieth century: the why, how, what, and when of governance development.

This book provides a user-friendly and practical guide to compliance and adjudication under the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. Timed to coincide with both the 10th anniversary of the Act coming into force (1 May 2008), and the culmination of its review by parliament, the work will provide an up-to-date compendium of case law and useful materials which will be valuable to the construction industry, legal practitioners, and students.
The book provides a comprehensive and practical coverage both of the adjudication and payment provisions of the act. It is set out in an accessible format dealing in turn with each of the major sections of the Act, and with a separate section of case summaries.
The book will cover the large number of cases and developments since 2001, including the outcome of the 2007 Construction Act Review. It will include the authors' commentary alongside extracts from cases which are often including in drafting the Referral, Response or Reply or any challenge to enforcement in the Courts. It will have the relevant excerpts in one place means that consideration for factual relevance and inclusion in submitted documents will be a quick and easy process.
This title provides an indispensable review of the statutory framework and the judicial guidance over the last decade and is an excellent resource for construction lawyers and industry professionals.