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This book brings together thought leadership from academia and leading figures in asset management in key global jurisdictions, to pool together insights regarding the transformative visions and challenges for modern investment management, as well as best practices that realise the policy objectives in regulation and soft law.The world of investment management is being challenged by new legal, regulatory and soft law developments to demonstrate that their practices cohere with the long-term needs of the saving population as well as public interest needs in financing global sustainability and social development. The chapters in this book uniquely bring together the views of academia and practice on the key developments that can transform the law and practice of investment management, including the EU's new sustainable finance reform package, the UK Stewardship Code 2020, and developments in the US regarding the fit between fiduciary law for investment management and modern sustainability concerns.The book brings together the best of both worlds-critical thoughtful perspectives from academia and qualitative insight from the investment management industry. It will be of interest to researchers in law, investment management, business and management, practitioners in the investment management industry and their legal advisers, and policy-makers in the EU, UK and beyond who are grappling with the appropriate governance paradigms for bringing about more sustainable outcomes globally.

In this important work, Marc Moore critically analyses the core dimensions of corporate governance law in the USA and UK, seeking to determine the fundamental nature of corporate governance as a subject of legal enquiry.

This book surveys the main issues in Company Law relating to contracts made by or with companies.

This text compares the corporate governance structures of the US quoted company and its European equivalent and the role of employees within them.

The Foundations and Anatomy of Shareholder Activism examines the landscape of contemporary shareholder activism in the UK.

This book focuses on the legal and regulatory treatment of the risks faced by the acquiring company shareholders in takeovers.

This book whether the promotion of corporate rescue is the best policy and goes on to examine the procedures which insolvent companies enter into.