Cox & Hazen on Corporations Book

Get fast, authoritative answers to today's hottest business law questions with Cox & Hazen Corporations, Second Edition. Find out the best ways to:

• Interpret the business judgment rule, especially its demands on directors, burden of proof, and allocation of responsibility between shareholders and managers
• Apply financial provisions of corporate statutes, such as those dealing with payment of dividends and issuing of shares
• Fulfill directors' fiduciary duties, with attention to concepts of care and loyalty, relationship to shareholders, and regulation of proxy voting

The expert authors provide comprehensive, practical coverage of:

• Increased responsibilities of corporate attorneys
• Executive compensation
• Extensive description and analysis of the heightened corporate governance developments by the NYSE and Nasdaq
• Audit committee obligations
• Fiduciary obligations in corporate combinations
• A new chapter on stock transfer laws, including discussion of Article 8 of the Uniform Commericial Code
• Analysis of Omni Care, and the most recent decision of the Delaware Chancery Court concerning executive compensation