Product Description
Corporate Law for Commerce Students (3rd edition)
Authors: A Haupt, NJ Malange
Format: Physical Hardcopy
The Companies Act 71 of 2008, as amended, has created a new corporate law regime for South Africa that poses exceptional challenges to practitioners, who have to interpret and apply concepts, principles and rules borrowed from other jurisdictions even before they have been tested or pronounced upon by our courts. Corporate Law for Commerce Students is a comprehensive yet basic guide to the structure and fundamentals of the new company dispensation.
Corporate Law for Commerce Students provides a brief, clear and especially practical overview of the law of business entities. It covers partnerships, companies, close corporations, business trusts and cooperative societies, each of which carries different rights and obligations, and ultimately liabilities, for the entrepreneur.
It discusses all of these within the framework of the new Companies Act, the common law, and recent court judgments and the King IV™ report. It includes figures, tables and mind maps to clarify each topic, and provides assessments at the end of each chapter.
Contents include the following:
Corporate Law for Commerce Students is aimed at students studying commercial law, business entities or corporate law subjects as well as practising accountants, auditors, company secretaries and paralegal practitioners.
Features:
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How to choose the right option for a specific business
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The partnership concept, the business trust and the establishment of legal personality, companies and cooperatives
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Compliance, transparency, accountability and governance
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Securities, debt instruments and public offers
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Directors, shareholders and company meetings, fundamental transactions, takeovers and offers
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Business rescue and compromise with creditors
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Termination and dissolution
Contents:
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PART A Business undertakings Chapter 1 Forms of business undertaking
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PART B Partnerships
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Chapter 2 The partnership concept
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Chapter 3 Relationship between partners
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Chapter 4 Relationship with third parties
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Chapter 5 Termination and dissolution
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PART C Companies
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Chapter 6 Legal personality
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Chapter 7 Development of company law in South Africa
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Chapter 8 Types of company
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Chapter 9 Company groups
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Chapter 10 Incorporation of a company
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Chapter 11 Capacity and representation
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Chapter 12 Capital of a company
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Chapter 13 Shares
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Chapter 14 The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
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Chapter 15 Public offers
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Chapter 16 Transparency, accountability and access to information
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Chapter 17 Enhanced accountability and transparency
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Chapter 18 Members and shareholders
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Chapter 19 Company meetings and resolutions
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Chapter 20 Directors
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Chapter 21 Fundamental transactions
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Chapter 22 Business rescue and compromise
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Chapter 23 Winding up of companies
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Chapter 24 Dispute resolution, remedies and enforcement
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Chapter 25 Regulatory agencies and transitional arrangements
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PART D Close corporations
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Chapter 26 The close corporation concept
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Chapter 27 Membership, internal relations and liability
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Chapter 28 Accounting
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Chapter 29 Winding up of a close corporation
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PART E Trusts Chapter 30 Trusts
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PART F Cooperatives Chapter 31 Cooperatives
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PART G Corporate law for commerce students Chapter 32 Corporate governance: King IV
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