Corporations and financial markets law

Abstract

It incorporates major legislative, judicial and regulatory developments since the last edition, such as separate personality doctrines within corporate groups, corporate agency doctrines, the reach of liability regimes to shadow and de facto directors and officers, duties of care and skill, the business judgment rule, duties of good faith and conflict avoidance, shareholder remedies, corporate dividend distributions, continuous disclosure obligations, the structure of financial market regulation following transfer to ASIC of primary responsibility for market supervision, market misconduct, insider trading and takeover regulation