Cases and Materials on Corporations, Fourth Edition

Widely respected new co-author Ronald Gilson joins Professors Jesse Choper and John Coffee in this completely updated and reorganized revision of one of the most comprehensive and analytically rich casebooks in corporate law - CASES AND MATERIALS ON CORPORATIONS. With a new chapter on corporate finance, appearing early in the book, The authors give students a solid foundation to Understand The core topics and direction of corporate law. Their excellent discussion encompasses the full range of corporate finance-from market efficiency to option pricing-and will prime your students for modern corporate law analysis. Other significant changes include: new focus on limited liability companies in a new chapter combining Close Corporations and Partnerships, new treatment of partial acquisitions and freezeout transactions, expanded discussion of who institutional investors and directors are and how they operate, important new decisions, including Virginia Bankshares, Inc. v. Sandberg, Central Bank of Denver v. First Interstate Bank of Denver, In securities regulation; Stroud v. Grace, In voting rights; Roosevelt v. E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co., On shareholder proxy proposals; and Paramount Communications, Inc. v. QVC Network Inc., In corporate acquisitions and takeovers Organized in nine chapters, this book covers all the basic corporations topics from forming the corporation, and corporate disclosure and securities fraud to corporate acquisitions, takeovers, and control transactions.