The ongoing consequences of the global financial crisis continue to emphasise the importance of implementing and enforcing adequate corporate governance and ensuring that directors are aware of both their duties and potential liabilities. Against this background, the ninth edition of the PLC Cross-border Corporate Governance and Directors' Duties Handbook provides a user-friendly insight into the current rules and proposals for reform of corporate governance and directors' duties worldwide.
The country-specific Q&A chapters in this Handbook provide practical and comparative information on key jurisdictions - a valuable resource for any lawyer with clients operating in several jurisdictions, giving easy-access summaries of the principal legal issues that they are likely to encounter. In particular, we examine corporate entities, the legal framework, board composition, directors’ appointment, directors’ duties and liability, management rules, company meetings, internal controls, accounts, auditing and institutional investors and shareholder groups.
This Handbook is available online as part of PLC Cross-border. This is a unique online service that provides know-how and market intelligence for in-house counsel and private practitioners operating across borders. The service includes practice guidance notes, standard documents and checklists, as well as the online archive of PLC Cross-border Quarterly, featuring comparative regulatory and transaction guides, and law firm management reviews. Visit www.practicallaw.com/aboutcrossborder for more information.
Other Handbooks in the series include: Arbitration, Capital Markets, Competition, Construction and Projects, Corporate Real Estate, Data Protection, Dispute Resolution, Doing Business in…, Employee Share Plans, Environment, Finance, IP in Business Transactions, Insurance and Reinsurance, Investment Funds, Labour and Employee Benefits, Leniency, Life Sciences, Mergers and Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Private Client, Private Equity, Restructuring and Insolvency, Structured Finance and Securitisation, Tax on Transactions, and Venture Capital.
The Handbook has been co-published with the contributors. We would like to thank all the firms involved for the excellence of their contributions and their attention to deadlines. If you wish to contact any contributor, full details are set out at the end of each chapter.