(Current Update Release 6)
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 and Gabriella Tuna Garamvölgyi e Silva, Amaral Gurgel Advogados, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Jonathan Pitman, Pitman & Co, Gray's Inn, London
Canada - Lauren
Lackie, Belinda E. Schubert, Evelyn Perez Youssoufian, Orie H. Niedzviecki,
and Igor Ellyn, Ellyn Law 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 - Guy Des Rosiers, Rahayu N. Hoed and Irina Anindita, 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 - Pablo Corcuera and Juan Francisco
Torres Landa, 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, and Norlegen L. Bayona, 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, University of Maribor, Faculty of Law 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 Carlota Sáenz, Cuatrecasas, Barcelona, Spain
Sweden - Håkan Fohlin,
Setterwalls, Stockholm, Sweden
Switzerland - Dimitri
Iafaev, RAPPARD & IAFAEV and Sonja Maeder Morvant, LALIVE
Attorneys-at-Law, Geneva, Switzerland
Thailand - Jayavadh
Bunnag and Anong Seehapan, ILCT -
International Legal Counsellors Thailand, Bangkok Thailand
