Commonwealth Caribbean Company Law

Andrew Burgess is a Professor Emeritus of Corporate and Commercial Law, a retired Justice of the Caribbean Court of Justice and a retired Justice of Appeal of the Barbados Court of Appeal. He is a former Dean of the Faculty of law of the University of the West Indies and a former Judge and President of the Inter-American Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and Judge and President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal in Washington, D.C.

• 1. Modern Commonwealth Caribbean Company Law in Perspective 2. Classification of Companies 3. Company Formation 4. Promotion and Pre-incorporation Transactions 5. Corporate Personality 6. Corporate Capacity and Corporate Agency 7. Raising Share Capital 8. Capital Maintenance 9. Shares, Classes of Shares and Class Rights 10. Directors and Other Officers 11. Directors’ Statutory Fiduciary Duty 12. Director’s Duty of Loyalty 13. Director’s Statutory Non-Fiduciary Duties 14. Directors’ Liabilities 15. Shareholders’ Decision Making 16. Shareholders and the Complaint Remedies 17. Other Shareholders’ Remedies 18. Dissenting Shareholders’ Appraisal Remedy 19. Prospectuses 20. Liabilities for Misleading Prospectuses’ 21. Company Charges 22. Debentures and Trust Deeds 23. Receivers and Receiver-Managers 24. Insider Trading; 25. Fundamental Company Changes 26. Financial Disclosure and Audit Requirements 27. Transfers of Shares and Debentures 28. Corporate Registers and Records 29. Take-over Bids