Commonwealth Caribbean Company Law

by Andrew Burgess

Overview

In the last twenty five years, company law in the Commonwealth Caribbean has undergone dramatic changes, from a model influenced by English law to a new, harmonised collection of regional legislation based on the Caricom and CLI model Acts that vary substantially across Caricom member states.

The variation within Caribbean company law presents an enormous challenge, both in terms of the breadth of the subject and in addressing the difference in provisions of one state’s Company Law Act as opposed to another. Using the Caricom model Act and CLI model Act as a basis for its structure, Commonwealth Caribbean Company Law examines and compares regional implementation of company law in an accessible and comprehensive manner that will be invaluable to students and practitioners in the region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135107673
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/25/2017
Series:	Commonwealth Caribbean Law
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	744
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Andrew Burgess is former Head of the Law Department at UWI Cave Hill and currently serving as Justice of Appeal at the Barbados Supreme Court.

Table of Contents

1. Modern Commonwealth Caribbean Company Law in Perspective 2. Classification of Companies 3. Company Formation 4. Promotion and Pre-incorporation Transactions 5. Corporate Personality 6. Corporate Capacity and Corporate Agency 7. Raising Share Capital 8. Capital Maintenance 9. Shares, Classes of Shares and Class Rights 10. Directors and Other Officers 11. Directors’ Statutory Fiduciary Duty 12. Director’s Duty of Loyalty 13. Director’s Statutory Non-Fiduciary Duties 14. Directors’ Liabilities 15. Shareholders’ Decision Making 16. Shareholders and the Complaint Remedies 17. Other Shareholders’ Remedies 18. Dissenting Shareholders’ Appraisal Remedy 19. Prospectuses 20. Liabilities for Misleading Prospectuses’ 21. Company Charges 22. Debentures and Trust Deeds 23. Receivers and Receiver-Managers 24. Insider Trading; 25. Fundamental Company Changes 26. Financial Disclosure and Audit Requirements 27. Transfers of Shares and Debentures 28. Corporate Registers and Records 29. Take-over Bids