Business and Economics: Business Law & Ethics

Clear, succinct, descriptions of the reasoning and policy issues underlying corporate law that is accessible to law students with no business or economic background. The 2016 edition is thoroughly updated to include recent U.S. Supreme Court, Delaware and other leading decisions and regulatory developments that impact the fiduciary obligations and duties in corporate transactions, governance, and management of corporations and LLCs, as well as benefit corporations, including rules implementing important provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and the Jobs Act of 2012 that have changed, the landscape of securities fraud suits in the federal courts, new discussions of unincorporated forms of business, insightful explanations of such news-making issues as corporate governance and director liabilities, and coverage of LLCs and LLPs.

This comprehensive law dictionary (10th edition) contains more than 50,000 terms and includes definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms.

Contents include: The primary types of corporate acquisitions -- The acquisition process and its basic legal documents -- Litigation on acquisition contracts -- Shareholder voting and appraisal rights -- Successorship issues -- Federal law on acquisitions of or by publicly-traded corporations -- Accounting issues in mergers and acquisitions -- Federal income tax treatment of M & A transactions -- The board of director's duty of care in acquisitions -- The legal duties of controlling shareholders in acquisitions -- The board of director's duty of loyalty in related party transactions -- The target board of directors power to block takeovers -- The fiduciary duty of financial consultants in acquisitions : investment bankers -- Antitrust legislation on acquisitions -- Acquisitions of United States corporations by foreign companies.