LAWS5014 Corporations Law - Comprehensive Course Notes

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Comprehensive course notes covering all topics, readings and statutory provisions. Everything you need for the mid-semester and final exams. 1. Civil penalties regime 2. Types of companies; company formation; business structures 3. Fundraising 1: debt and equity 4. Fundraising 2: Ch 6D 5. Corporate insolvency 6. Corporate personality 7. Piercing the corporate veil 8. The corporate constitution 9/10. Decision-making organs; company meetings 11. Corporate liability in tort 12. Corporate liability in contract 13. Corporate criminal liability 14a. Overview of directors’ duties 14b. Duty to act in good faith and for proper purposes 15/16: Fiduciary obligations; statutory regulation of conflicts 17/18. Duty of care, skill and diligence; BJR; ratification 19/20. Members’ remedies