Contracting with Companies: 2 (Contemporary Studies in Corporate Law) - Hardcover

...it is a wonder that until the publication of this monograph there seems to be no book in the Commonwealth that is devoted entirely to studying the whole corpus of rules on contracting with companies. This book fills that gap admirably. Wee Meng Seng Singapore Journal of Legal Studies July 2007 Each chapter provides a clear, complete and in-depth legal and economic analysis of the rules that govern contracting with companies. The author has managed to strike the right balance between theory and practice. Milena Moraru European Business Organization Law Review Volume 8, 2007 This is a clear, interesting and refreshing treatment...an in-depth and contextual evaluation of principle in this area... Jill Poole The Journal of Business Law Oct 06 Griffiths provides a good historical consideration of attribution and then applies this concept to companies...an excellent contribution to corporate contracting. It covers a wide area of UK corporate law...The reviewer highly recommends this book as essential reading. Dr Saleem Sheikh International Company and Commercial Law Review, Volume 17, Issue 1 January 2006 One of the most impressive features of this work is the sheer depth and quality of analysis...a unique and significant addition to the scholarship of corporate law...a tremendous achievement. Sandra Frisby Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 2006 ...a much-needed and very welcome addition to the ever-growing body of corporate law scholarship. Its legal analysis is exemplary...it is warmly recommended to anybody with an interest in company law scholarship. Christian Twigg-Flesner Common Law World Review 2006

This book surveys the main rules of Company Law governing the making of contracts with companies. It adopts an economic perspective, examining these rules in terms of the risks they apportion between companies and parties contracting with them. It reviews the use that has been made of economics in the analysis of Company Law and considers what guidance this can provide in analysing corporate contracting. The book then examines the relevant law and the issues raised by this law, covering the role of corporate constitutions as the source of the authority of corporate agents, the mechanisms of corporate activity and decision-making, the identification of corporate contracting parties, pre-incorporation contracts and other contracts with non-existent companies, the contractual power of a company's board, the protection of parties dealing with subordinate corporate agents and the regulation of contracts in which a director has a conflict of interest.