Rationality in Company Law

John Armour is Lovells Professor of Law and Finance in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Oriel College. Jennifer Payne is Professor of Corporate Finance Law at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford.

The readers will find this book rich in scholarship and of practical use in some instances. The essays in this collection show by proxy Professor Prentice's high academic standard and, like Professor Prentice himself make a great contribution to company law scholarship. Look Chan Ho Law Quarterly Review April 2010, Volume 126

• Introduction JOHN ARMOUR and JENNIFER PAYNE Part I: Enforcing Corporate Law 1. Derivative Claims under the Companies Act 2006: Much Ado About Nothing? ARAD REISBERG 2. Enforcement of Insider Dealing Laws EILIS FERRAN 3. Enforcement Strategies in UK Corporate Governance: A Roadmap and Empirical Assessment JOHN ARMOUR Part II: Share Capital and Investor Protection 4. Legal Capital in the UK following the Companies Act 2006 JENNIFER PAYNE 5. Listed Infrastructure Funds: Creative Use of Corporate Structure and Law-But in Whose Interests? MARTIN LAWRENCE and GEOF STAPLEDON 6. Parent-Subsidiary Conflicts in Financial Services Groups EDDY WYMEERSCH 7. The Proprietary Protection of Investors in Intermediated Securities LOUISE GULLIFER Part III: Companies and Shareholders 8. On Improving Shareholder Voting MARCEL KAHAN and EDWARD B ROCK 9. Basic Corporate Plumbing RICHARD NOLAN 10. Law, the Market and Corporate Enterprise: The Case of the Industrial Revolution BRIAN R CHEFFINS Part IV: Debt Finance and Insolvency 11. Recurrent Issues in Receivables Financing FIDELIS ODITAH 12. Contractual Prohibitions against Assignment ROY GOODE 13. Reputation in the Private Loan Syndication Market JOSEPH A MCCAHERY and ARMIN SCHWIENBACHER