Christoph Van der Elst – författare

Analysing principles from legal systems across Europe and the USA, this textbook examines how companies operate within a larger societal context. Chapters discuss the legal formation, characteristics, and financing of companies, as well as their internal structures and the roles and duties of corporate boards and shareholders. The authors dissect specialised topics such as risk management, reporting, corporate groups and mergers and acquisitions.

Key Features:

Concepts of Company Law is a useful resource for students in corporate and commercial law, finance and banking law, comparative law and business and economics. Its valuable insights provide a legal perspective on decision-making within corporations that will benefit students, researchers and policymakers across these fields.

The eminent contributors review historical and current provisions relating to internal control and risk management in Europe and in the USA. They address the interconnected consequences of the necessity of risk management, and illustrate that a comprehensive approach needs to be further improved. The pros and cons of both the rule-based and the principle-based approaches are analysed, showing that the latter makes it more feasible for sound business practices to be combined with strategic company goals, and for the relationship between entrepreneurial risk taking and sound risk governance management to be in equilibrium. The book also presents a balanced supervision framework, which both promotes prevention of excessive risk taking and tackles risk failure.

Risk Management and Corporate Governance will prove to be of great interest to academics and students of law, accounting and auditing, business and tax lawyers and accountants, policymakers and risk management and compliance officers.

舖Attitude舗 looms large in any discussion of executive compensation. Yet here is a book that restricts its remit to what can actually be discovered about the corporate and contractual facts, figures, and rationales that determine how much a company director 舖earns舗 in an increasingly complex system of executive remuneration that seems to be taking root worldwide. In a remarkably insightful collection of articles, legal scholars from ten different countries address the state of the art of executive service contracts in twelve different jurisdictions, as diverse as (on the one hand) the European Union, its central Member States and the United States, and (on the other) Iceland and Romania. Their analysis penetrates beyond the often vague regulatory framework to actual survey figures, consultants舗 reports, and even data from a number of specific firms.