Joseph A. McCahery / Theo Raaijmakers / Erik P.M. Vermeulen (eds.)

The Governance of Close Corporations and Partnerships

Us and European Perspectives
Herausgeber: McCahery, Joseph A; Vermeulen, Erik P M; Raaijmakers, Theo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the US, states have incentives to take a proactive attitude towards legislative innovations in the field of business organization law, so as to capture and retain closely held firms. In recent years, a rapid succession of statutory innovations of partnership forms (such as the introduction of the LLC and rapid adoption of the LLP) have transformed business organization law. Similar processes can also be identified in the UK and continental Europe. While the EC has pursued the harmonization of the law of public corporations, there has been no real attempt to adopt a series of similar measures for the benefit of closely held firms. A group of European business leaders and experts, however, have drafted recently a business organization statute appropriate for SMEs engaged in cross-border business.

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This book examines the limited liability business forms that have recently emerged, and seeks to identify the forces that have led to the emergence of new business forms for small and medium-sized businesses. Focusing on the US, UK, and continental Europe, the contributors analyse the Limited Liability Company, the Limited Liability Partnership, and the new business forms proposed in Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9780199264353
• ISBN-10: 019926435X
• Artikelnr.: 21344592

Autorenporträt

Joseph A. McCahery is Professor of International Business Law at Tilburg University and Research Fellow at the Tilburg Center for Law and Economics Theo Raaijmakers is Professor of Corporate Law at Tilburg University Dr. Erik P.M. Vermeulen is at the Center for Company Law, Tilburg University

Inhaltsangabe

* I. INTRODUCTION
* COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNINCORPORATED FIRM
* II. THEORY: PARTNERSHIP AND CLOSE CORPORATION LAW
* THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL LAW
* AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF SHARED PROPERTY IN PARTNERSHIP AND CLOSE
CORPORATIONS LAW
* MATCH-SPECIFIC ASSETS AND MINORITY OPPRESSION IN THE CLOSE
CORPORATION
* BRACKETED FLEXIBILITY: STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE LEVEL THE PLAYING
FIELD
* III. EVOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP AND CLOSE CORPORATION LAW
* THE EVOLVING PARTNERSHIP
* FEDERAL TAX LAW AND THE LIMITED LIABILITY MOVEMENT
* THE EVOLUTION OF CLOSELY HELD BUSINESS FORMS IN EUROPE
* TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVES ON PARTNERSHIP LAW: RISK AND STABILITY
* IV. LEGISLATIVE REFORM INITIATIVES: THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE UNITED
STATES, AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
* LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIPS IN THE UK: DO THEY HAVE A ROLE FOR
SMALL BUSINESS
* PARTNERSHIP LAW REFORM IN THE UK
* THE FAILED UNITED STATES EXPERIMENT IN UNINCORPORATED BUSINESS ENTITY
REFORM
* PITFALLS IN PARTNERSHIP LAW REFORM: THE UNITED STATES EXPERIENCE
* THE EUROPEAN PRIVATE COMPANY
* REFORMS IN DUTCH PARTNERSHIP LAW
* THE TAXATION OF HYBRID ENTITIES IN EUROPE