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The spirit of corporate law : core principles of corporate law in Continental Europe / Günter H. Roth, Peter Kindler. - [München] : C. H. Beck, [copy. 2013]. - XXXI, 190 p. ; 24 cm
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DIREITO COMERCIAL, DIREITO DAS SOCIEDADES, SOCIEDADES COMERCIAIS, SOCIEDADE ANÓNIMA, CAPITAL SOCIAL, AUMENTO DE CAPITAL, AQUISIÇÃO DE ACÇÕES, DISTRIBUIÇÃO DOS LUCROS, DIREITOS DOS SÓCIOS, ACCIONISTA, PROTECÇÃO DOS ACCIONISTAS MINORITÁRIOS, RESPONSABILIDADE DO ACCIONISTA, RESPONSABILIDADE DA EMPRESA, PROTECÇÃO DOS CREDORES, TRANSFERÊNCIA, RISCO, CONSELHO ADMINISTRATIVO, ÓRGÃOS ADMINISTRATIVOS, RESPONSABILIDADE DA ADMINISTRAÇÃO, DIREITO DAS OBRIGAÇÕES, RESPONSABILIDADE CIVIL, DIREITO COMUNITÁRIO
Preface. Selected Abbreviations. Bibliography. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION. I- Freedom and responsibility in European Corporate Law. 1- European Company Law at a crossroads. 2- The purpose of Corporate Law. 3- Key issues of legal protection in Continental Europe. II- Regarding the selection of legal systems under review. III- The current legal policy background of this study. 1- Diversity in the laws governing small corporations and the state of EU legal policy in the area of corporate law. 2- The EU Action Plan 2003 on the modernisation of Company Law and improvement of Corporate Governance. 3- Reform Initiative 2011/12. 4- European private company (SPE). CHAPTER 2: MINIMUM CAPITAL AND CAPITAL PROTECTION. I- Limitations on liability and transfer of risks. 1- Entrepreneurial liability. 2- Limited liability and creditor protection. II- Fixed capital and minimum capital. 1- Liable equity capital levels. 2- Analysis. 3- International criticism. 4- Most recent developments in national law. III- Raising capital. 1- The principle. 2- Cash contributions and contributions in kind. 3- Analysis. 4- Pre-formation corporate liability. 5- The capital increase. 6- Securing capital contributions in special cases. IV- Other aspects of corporate formation. 1- The act of incorporation. 2- Analysis. V- Capital maintenance. 1- Contributed equity capital. 2. Mere distribution of profits. 3- Constructive distributions. 4- Shareholder loans. 5- Acquisition of own shares. 6- Analysis. 7- Capital reduction. VI- Piercing the corporate veil (reach-through liability). 1- Limitations on liability and reach-through. 2- Risk to the company as a going concern, insolvency trigger. 3- Analysis. CHAPTER 3: THE STRUCTURE OF THE CORPORATION. I- Organisational structure and plurality of interests. II- Organisational structure and limitation of risks. III- The members of the management body as “mandataries” of the shareholders. IV- Delimitation of competences and hierarchy of the company organs. 1- Principle of general competence. 2- Fundamentals of the company. 3- Personnel competence. 4- Financial structure. 5- Particular features of the organisational structure of large corporations. 6- Analysis. V- Duties and liability of members of the management body. 1- Plurality of interests and conflicting obligations. 2- General obligation of diligent management vis-à-vis the company. 3- Liability vis-à-vis the private limited company based on specific rules of corporate law and based on tort. 4- Liability vis-à-vis individual shareholders. 5- Instances of liability under general private law vis-a`-vis private law company Creditors. 6- Analysis. CHAPTER 4: PROTECTION OF MINORITY INTERESTS. I- General principles. 1- Principle of unanimity and majority decision-making. 2- Majority rule and protection of minorities. II- Formal minority protection. 1- Qualified majorities. 2- Ensuring participation. 3- Minority control rights. 4- The individual right to information. 5- Analysis. III- Substantive minority protection. 1- Voting right preclusion. 2- Contesting majority resolutions. 3- Substantive control of resolutions. 4- Withdrawal and exclusion of the minority. 5- Analysis. CHAPTER 5: THE EXTERNAL CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS. I- Purposes of control and instruments of control. II- Annual audit. III- Compulsory form. 1- Purposes of form requirements. 2- The functions of the civil law notary in corporate law. 3- Small corporation. 4- Large corporation. 5- Analysis. IV- Disclosure. 1- Main principles of commercial disclosure in the European Union. 2- Commercial law disclosure, protection of bona fide rights and protection of the public (based on the example of the acquisition of shares in a German GmbH from a transferor who is not the true owner). 3- Analysis. V- The expansion of external controls as a desideratum in terms of legal policy. CHAPTER 6: THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN COMPANY LAW. I- At the outset. II- Conclusions from the individual chapters of the book. 1- Capital structure (supra, Chapter 2). 2- Organisational structure (supra, Chapter 3). 3- Minority protection (supra, Chapter 4). 4- External controls (supra, Chapter 5). III- Conclusions for European legal policy in the area of corporate law.