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Global Business & Human Rights

Name: Global Business & Human Rights
Brand: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
SKU: 9780956544094
Price: 2642.28 HKD
Availability: OutOfStock
Author: James Featherby
ISBN: 9780956544094

By James Featherby

Sweet & Maxwell U.K. October 2011

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780956544094
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
Publication: October 2011
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This publication is an essential guide for general counsel and law firms to the changing world of human rights and its importance for global business. It highlights the growing relationship between human rights and global business and the developing international focus on the issue, particularly as a result of recent United Nations initiatives.

Providing detailed commentary from leading international law firms, this first edition focuses on the legal accountability and due diligence responsibilities of corporates based in many of the world’s most developed jurisdictions for human rights compliance by their overseas operations.

• LOCAL HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• INTEREST IN GLOBAL BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
• COPRPORATE AND DIRECTORS DUTIES
• COPORATE REPORTING
• DERIVATIVE ACTIONS
• INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS
• SHAREHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
• STOCK EXCHANGE INDICES
• REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT
• LIABILTY OF UK INCORPORATED MULTINATIONALPARENT COMPANIES FOR FOREIGN SUBSIDIARIES
• CLASS ACTIONS
• SECURITIES LAW ISSUES
• PRODUCT LIABILITY ISSUES

About the Author

James Featherby
Practicing principally in the areas of corporate finance and co-ordinates the firm’s corporate real estate practice. He has extensive experience of public and private M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate real estate transactions and a variety of capital raising techniques. He has advised on the establishment of various European institutional and public real estate funds and real estate acquisitions and developments. He has advised both in the UK and internationally. Many of the private M&A transactions on which he has advised have been of a multi-jurisdictional nature, including the disposal of a variety of worldwide natural resources businesses with assets in Europe, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas.

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