Company Law

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1 - Introduction to company law
2 - Corporate personality and limited liability
3 - Lifting the veil
4 - Promoters and pre-incorporation contracts
5 - Raising capital: equity and its consequences
6 - Raising capital: debentures - fixed and floating charges
7 - Share capital
8 - The constitution of the company: dealing with insiders
9 - Classes of shares and variation of class rights
10 - Derivative claims
11 - Statutory shareholder remedies
12 - The constitution of the company: dealing with outsiders
13 - Corporate management
14 - Directors' duties
15 - Corporate governance 1: corporate governance and corporate theory
16 - Corporate governance 2: the UK corporate governance debate
17 - Corporate rescue and liquidations