Fiduciary Obligations In Business

Leading scholars analyze key issues in fiduciary duties in business―one of the most salient applications of fiduciary law and theory.

The Research Handbook on Fiduciary Law offers specially commissioned chapters written by leading scholars and covers a wide range of important topics in fiduciary law. Topical contributions discuss: various fiduciary relationships; the duty of loyalty and other fiduciary obligations; fiduciary remedies; the role of equity; the role of trust; international and comparative perspectives; and public fiduciary law. This Research Handbook will be of interest to readers concerned with both theory and practice, as it incorporates significant new insights and developments in the field.

Reconceptualises the general meeting, controlling shareholders and institutional investors as fiduciaries in four leading common law Asian jurisdictions.

In Fiduciary Law, Tamar Frankel examines the structure, principles, themes, and objectives of fiduciary law. Fiduciaries, which include corporate managers, money managers, lawyers, and physicians among others, are entrusted with money or power. Frankel explains how fiduciary law is designed to offer protection from abuse of this method of safekeeping. She deals with fiduciaries in general, and identifies situations in which fiduciary law falls short of offering protection. Frankel analyzes fiduciary debates, and argues that greater preventive measures are required. She offers guidelines for determining the boundaries and substance of fiduciary law, and discusses how failure to enforce fiduciary law can contribute to failing financial and economic systems. Frankel offers ideas and explanations for the courts, regulators, and legislatures, as well as the fiduciaries and entrustors. She argues for strong legal protection against abuse of entrustment as a means of encouraging fiduciary services in society. Fiduciary Law can help lawyers and policy makers designing the future law and the systems that it protects.

The new recently updated Sixth Edition of The Business Judgment Rule: Fiduciary Duties of Corporate Directors explores the latest developments in the law in Delaware and all other jurisdictions that have addressed business judgment rule and related corporate governance issues, as well as the most recent cases exploring the breadth and limits of the business judgment rule. Meticulously researched and expertly analyzed by Stephen A. Radin, partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, and one of the most respected and experienced practitioners in the field, The Business Judgment Rule: Fiduciary Duties of Corporate Directors provides the timely authoritative guidance you need. The author seamlessly combines cases, statutory provisions and commentary to help you make sense of the constantly changing body of law, even as the courts struggle to adapt the rule in new contexts. The Business Judgment Rule, Sixth Edition spotlights such vital areas as-- duty of care issues duty of loyalty issues disinterestedness and independence issues the emerging good faith doctrine oversight and the Caremark doctrine compensation stock option backdating controlling shareholder transactions special committees disclosure obligations appraisal financially troubled companies and the zone of insolvency defensive measures deal protection measures shareholder derivative litigation the pre-litigation demand requirement Section 220 demands indemnification of directors and officers The Business Judgment Rule: Fiduciary Duties of Corporate Directors, Sixth Edition is a powerful legal tool. It's the most complete, most current, most practical guide in the corporate governance arena available to working professionals today.