Legal aspects of corporate management and finance / Don Mayer, Daniel Warner, George J Siedel, Jethro Lieberman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayer, Don, author.

Warner, Daniel, author.

Siedel, George J., author.

Lieberman, Jethro K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business--Textbooks.

Business.

Law--United States--Textbooks.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Saylor Foundation [2012]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance is an up-to-date textbook that covers key legal issues relating to corporate management and finance. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style. After introductory chapters covering the legal environment of business, Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance provides students with context and essential legal concepts relating to contracts, agency law, partnerships, corporations, commercial paper, debtors and creditors. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy students will need to talk in an educated way to customers, suppliers, employees, creditors, shareholders, government regulators and other stakeholders — and to their own lawyers.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Law and Legal Systems

Chapter 2: Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics

Chapter 3: Courts and the Legal Process

Chapter 4: Constitutional Law and US Commerce

Chapter 5: Administrative Law

Chapter 6: Criminal Law

Chapter 7: Introduction to Tort Law

Chapter 8: Contracts

Chapter 9: Relationships between Principal and Agent

Chapter 10: Liability of Principal and Agent; Termination of Agency

Chapter 11: Partnerships: General Characteristics and Formation

Chapter 12: Partnership Operation and Termination

Chapter 13: Hybrid Business Forms

Chapter 14: Corporation: General Characteristics and Formation

Chapter 15: Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance

Chapter 16: Corporate Powers and Management

Chapter 17: Securities Regulation

Chapter 18: Corporate Expansion, State and Federal Regulation of Foreign Corporations, and Corporate Dissolution

Chapter 19: Nature and Form of Commercial Paper

Chapter 20: Negotiation of Commercial Paper

Chapter 21: Holder in Due Course and Defenses

Chapter 22: Liability and Discharge

Chapter 23: Legal Aspects of Banking

Chapter 24: Consumer Credit Transactions

Chapter 25: Secured Transactions and Suretyship

Chapter 26: Mortgages and Nonconsensual Liens

Chapter 27: Bankruptcy

Notes:

CC BY-SA

Description based on online resource

OCLC:

1000325593