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(Current Update Release 10)
International Liability of Corporate Directors - 2nd Edition covers in detail 29 jurisdictions in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. The work examines comprehensively with detailed analysis the laws applicable to company directors, including:
- Sources of Liability
- Inside and Outside Directors
- Duties of Directors and Officers
- Monitoring of Management
- Director Compensation
- Board Meetings
- Election of Board of Directors
- Access to Corporate Information
- Deficient Corporate Reports
- Fraudulent Transactions
- Accounting Records and Control
- Questionable Payments
- Insider Trading
- Duty to Exercise Care
- Reliance on Advice of Others
- Usurpation of Corporate Opportunity
- Competing with Corporation
- Loans to or by Directors
- Indemnification of Directors
- Statutory Limitations on Directors' Liability
- Liability in Third Party Actions
Editor:
Christian Campbell is the Assistant Director of the Center for International Legal Studies (CILS) in Salzburg, Austria, and teaches as an adjunct Professor at Suffolk University Law School. He is a Member British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Founder and Co-Director of the FDI Moot, Law Student Competition for Investor-State Arbitration. He was previously employed in the Legal Department of Philips Petroleum Europe/Africa and in private practice at Shakespeare's Solicitors, Birmingham, England.
General Editor:
Professor Dennis Campbell is the Director of the Center for International Legal Studies (CILS) in Salzburg, Austria, and teaches as an adjunct Professor at Suffolk University Law School. He is the former Director of International Programs and Professor of Law at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. He has lectured at Stockholm University, Helsinki University, Salzburg University, National University of Taiwan, Warsaw University, and Jagiellonian University. He is a member of the New York State Bar and the Iowa State Bar and is a former Assistant Secretary of the California State Senate.
Contributors Include:
Argentina - Javier Canosa, Canosa Abogados, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Australia - Robert Baxt, Amanda Cowan and Alicia Simonds, Herbert Smith Freehills, Melbourne Victoria, Australia
Austria - Stefan Eder and Maurizia Anderle-Hauke, Benn-Ibler Rechtsanwälte GmbH, Vienna, Austria
Belgium - Roel Nieuwdorp, Ambos NBGO, Brussels, Belgium
Brazil - Renato Maluf, Larissa Metne, and Thiago Barrizzelli Murino, Amaral Gurgel Advogados, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Jonathan Pitman, Pitman & Co, Gray's Inn, London
Canada - Kathryn Manning, Max Libman and Michael Robson, DMG Advocates LLP, Toronto, Ontario
China - Wei Shen, KoGuan Law School, Shanghai, China
Colombia - Natalia Tobón, Cavelier Abogados, Bogotá, Colombia
Denmark - Jorgen Boe and Maria Bekke Eiersted, Kromann Reumert, Aarhus, Denmark
England - Richard Barham, SNR Denton, London, England
Germany - Georg A. Wittuhn, Huth Dietrich Hahn, Hamburg, Germany
Greece - Aggeliki Samara, Pantelidis Law Offices, Athens, Greece
India - Ravi Kini and Abhay Itagi, M.V.Kini & Co, Mumbai, India
Indonesia - Farah Clarissa and Rahayu N. Hoed, Makarim & Taira S., Jakarta, Indonesia
Ireland - Kevin Hoy, Liam Brazil and David Mangan, Mason Hayes+Curran, Dublin, Ireland
Italy - Ruthann Granito and Francesca Bertini, GRANITO LTD, New York, New York, United States
Luxembourg - Michel Molitor, Molitor Avocats à la Cour, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Mexico - Juan Francisco Torres Landa R., Andrea Lopez D, and Karla Rabasa A, Hogan Lovells, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
The Netherlands - Stephanie ter Brake, Lexence N.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Norway - Erik v. Hirsch, Wiersholm Mellbye & Bech, Oslo, Norway
The Philippines - J. Alessandra G. Cochico, Aison Benedict C. Velasco, Elaine Patricia S. Reyes-Rodolfo, Everlene O. Lee, Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Offices, Metro Manila, Philippines
Poland - Joanna Karniol, Karniol Malecki i Wspolnicy Sp. k., Warsaw, Poland
Portugal - Diogo Perestrelo, Ana Alves Leal and Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira, Lisbon, Portugal
Russia - Maria Kosova and Mikhail Usubyan, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Moscow, Russia
Slovenia - Peter Podgorelec and Saša Prelič, University of Maribor, Faculty of Law, Maribor, Slovenia
South Africa - Stephen Kennedy-Good and Michael Hart, Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc, Sandton, South Africa
Spain - Alejandro Payá, María Igea, and Jordi Vergoni, Cuatrecasas, Barcelona, Spain
Sweden - Håkan Fohlin, Setterwalls, Stockholm, Sweden
Switzerland - Dimitri Iafaev, Rappard Romanetti Iafaev & Avocats and Sonja Maeder Morvant, Reiser Avocats, Geneva, Switzerland
Thailand - Jayavadh Bunnag and Anong Seehapan, ILCT - International Legal Counsellors Thailand, Bangkok Thailand