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A late 19th and early 20th century ‘corporate lag’ has been identified as a cause of Britain's 20th century economic ‘decline’. However, the number of publicly traded companies increased...

Pre-World War I momentum in favour of diffusion of share ownership was sustained up to 1939. On the sell side, pressure to pay dividends, generational considerations, the periodic availability of...

This chapter analyses the rationale and structure of the provisions which reverse or adjust eve-of-insolvency transactions considered to have been tainted by the improper motives of either the...

This chapter deals with the implementation of the leveraging proposal. The leveraging proposal turns on the overriding of fee agreements reached by contract between plaintiffs' lawyers and...

Building on the understanding gained by the discussion in Chapter 6 of the socially harmful features of administrative receivership, this chapter discusses the administration procedure introduced by...

This chapter considers the twin institutions of the floating charge and administrative receivership. It explains the distinctive role played by the floating charge by examining the empirical context...

This chapter outlines the historical background to the adoption of multilateral instruments which contain provisions requiring protection of freedom of association and the right to strike. It begins...

The Microsoft case was drawn on the new theory of network effects and path dependence to explain the emergence and persistence of Microsoft as the dominant supplier of operating systems,...

This chapter explores the law of agency in relation to European contract law. It explains that agency is often considered to be more properly part of commercial rather than contract law and evaluates...

This chapter reports findings with respect to aggregate professional fees and expenses from the cases used in the sample. It also explains how those amounts can be used to predict the fees and...