Business Organizations Law in Focus [Connected eBook with Study Center]

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New to the Third Edition:

• Significantly more editing of cases with an eye towards making case excerpts shorter and more accessible to students.
• New cases in Chapters 1 and 2 that address veil piercing, the creation of an agency relationship, agent authority, and principal liability in a manner that is (more) accessible to students.
• Expanded coverage of LLCs in Chapter 12, including a newly-added cases and related exercises addressing the primacy of the operating agreement in LLC governance and LCC dissolution standards
• New cases and exercises in Chapter 9 highlighting the new universal test for demand futility under Rule 23.1 (the Zuckerberg case) and the continued evolution of Delaware's Caremark corporate monitoring and oversight doctrine
• A newly-added Delaware Supreme Court case in Chapter 10 in which shareholders of AmerisourceBergen--one of the world's leading wholesale distributors of opioid painkillers--sought to exercise their inspection rights under DGCL Section 200 to investigate whether the firm had engaged in wrongdoing in connection with the distribution of opioids
• A newly-added case in Chapter 7 addressing preferred stock attributes and the relationship between common stock and preferred stock.
• Additional and expanded references to Model Business Corporation Act (MBCA) standards across Chapters 8, 9, and 10
• Updated coverage of the proxy system and proxy regulation, securities offering rules and regs, and developments in insider trading law
• New and/or updated cases and "spotlight" sections that address a variety of timely issues, including "unicorns" (start-up businesses with a valuation of at least $1 billion), so-called "shadow" trading, claims involving opioid manufacturers, and corporate governance matters involving #MeToo claims.

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Features that engage students in applying theory to practice, such as Real Life Applications, Application Exercises, and Applying the Concepts.
• Experiential exercises on drafting documents and preparing appropriate filings.
• An overview in Chapter One of the various forms of business organization and their key attributes, advantages, and disadvantages.
• An emphasis on contemporary principal cases and issues that resonate with today's students and fuel class discussion.
• Clear exposition of legal principles, so students can absorb assigned reading on their own, and professors don't have to explain it from the lectern in class.
• Attention to legal ethics and rules of professional responsibility that commonly arise in the representation of business entities.

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