Company Law Academic Text Bundle

Student Companion: Company Law, 2nd edition (Kelsey Farmer and Henry Hillind)
Chapter 1 – Nature of companies
Chapter 2 – Formation of companies
Chapter 3 – Company transactions
Chapter 4 – Directors’ powers and duties
Chapter 5 – Shares and shareholders
Chapter 6 – Shareholder remedies
Chapter 7 – Liquidation

Company Law in New Zealand, 2nd edition (Neil Campbell, Christopher Hare and Peter Watts)
Part I: The Fundamentals of Company Law
Chapter 1 – The company in context
Chapter 2 – Corporate personality
Chapter 3 – The consequences of incorporation
Chapter 4 – Formation of companies
Chapter 5 – Constitutions and other governance instruments
Chapter 6 – Shares
Chapter 7 – Distributions

Part II: Operating the Company’s Business
Chapter 8 – The division of powers between directors and shareholders
Chapter 9 – Directors: Definition and status
Chapter 10 – Company meetings
Chapter 11 – Company contracting
Part III: Directors’ Duties
Chapter 12 – Directors’ duties: Sources and beneficiaries
Chapter 13 – Duty to act in the best interests of the company
Chapter 14 – Liability for profiting
Chapter 15 – Conflicts of interest
Chapter 16 – The duties of care, diligence and skill and of compliance with the Companies Act and constitution 
Chapter 17 – Insolvency and directors’ duties
Chapter 18 – Duties owed to shareholders and the duty to act for a proper purpose
Chapter 19 – Ratification of directors’ breaches of duty

Part IV: Shareholders’ Rights and Remedies
Chapter 20 – Shareholder remedies: Personal rights, corporate rights, and the derivative action
Chapter 21 - Shareholder remedies: Winding up, buy-outs and relief from oppressive, discriminatory or unfairly prejudicial conduct

Part V: Accounts, Audits and Records
Chapter 22 – Accounts, audits and records

Part VI: Mergers, Takeovers and Amalgamations
Chapter 23 – Corporate takeovers
Chapter 24 – Amalgamations

Part VII: Insolvency Proceedings
Chapter 25 - Insolvency proceedings