Earlier editions entered under: Gower, L.C.B. (Laurence Cecil Bartlett).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Types and functions of companies -- 2. Advantages and disadvantages of incorporation -- 3. Sources of company law -- 4. Formation procedures -- 5. Corporate mobility -- 6. The nature and classification of shares -- 7. The limits of separate legal personality and limited liability -- 8. Corporate actions -- 9. The board and its directors -- 10. Directors' duties -- 11. The constitutional role of shareholders -- 12. Shareholder decision-making -- 13. Controlling members' voting -- 14. Personal claims and unfair prejudice -- 15. Corporate litigation and the derivative action -- 16. Legal capital, minimum capital and verification -- 17. Capital maintenance -- 18. Distributions and transfers at an undervalue -- 19. Undermining creditors' claims -- 20. Disqualification of directors -- 21. Breach of corporate duties: administrative remedies -- 22. Accounts and reports -- 23. Audits and auditors -- 24. Share issues: general rules -- 25. Public offers of shares -- 26. Transfers of shares -- 27. Continuing obligations and disclosure of information to the market -- 28. Takeovers -- 29. Arrangements, reconstructions and mergers -- 30. Market abuse -- 31. Debts and debt securities -- 32. Company charges -- 33. Managing distressed or defunct companies.

Gower and Davies is the clearest and most reliable text available to cover the increasingly complex subject of company law. Students, as well as those involved in company law on a day-to-day basis, can turn to Gower and Davies secure in the knowledge that it will be an interesting, thought provoking and above all understandable exposition of both law and practice. --