Ford's Principles of Corporations Law, 14th Edition

Part I - Companies and Company Law
1. The Nature and Functions of Companies
2. The Origins of Company Law
3. Regulating Companies

Part II - A Company as a Corporate Entity
4. Incorporation and Its Consequences
5. Formation, Promotion and Establishment

Part III - The Law of Corporate Governance
6. Corporate Governance Rules
7. The Board of Directors and the General Meeting
8. Acting Properly and with Care
9. Conflicts of Interest and Special Cases
10. Accounts, Audit and Disclosure
11. Members' Remedies

Part IV - Corporate Liability
12. Corporate Capacity
13. Authority to Act for a Company
14. A Company's Assent to Transactions
15. Validation and Ratification of Defective Transactions
16. A Company's Liability for Civil and Criminal Wrongs

Part V - Corporate Finance
17. Equity Finance
18. Dividends
19. Debt Finance
20. Protection of Creditors
21. Dealings with Security Holdings
22. Fundraising by Issue and Sale of Securities

Part VI - Corporate Control and Restructuring
23. Takeovers and Disclosure of Shareholdings
24. Corporate Reorganisation and Elimination of Minority Holdings

Part VII - External Administration
25. External Administration in Insolvency Generally
26. Receiverships
27. Voluntary Administration
28. Winding Up

The Honourable Justice RP Austin is a Justice in the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales where he has decided some of the most important corporate law cases in recent times. He is a distinguished author and Challis Lecturer in Company Law at the University of Sydney.

Professor Ian Ramsay is the Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law at the Melbourne Law School and the Director of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. Professor Ramsay is a current member of the Takeovers Panel, has practiced law in Australia and the United States and is one of Australia's foremost corporate law experts.