Corporate Finance: Cases and Materials

by William W. Bratton, Bratton, Chirelstein

Detailed and informed selection of cases illustrating the development of the body of law surrounding corporate finance, including text and explanatory materials. Includes detailed sections analyzing the significance of cases and their points of law.

Genres: Law

1104 pages, Hardcover

First published March 14, 2002

About the author

William Bratton is recognized internationally as a leading writer on business law. He brings an interdisciplinary perspective to a wide range of subject matters that encompass corporate governance, corporate finance, accounting, corporate legal history, and comparative corporate law. His work has appeared in the Cornell, Michigan, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Stanford, and Virginia law reviews, and the Duke and Georgetown law journals, along with the American Journal of Comparative Law and the Common Market Law Review. His book, Corporate Finance: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2008), is the leading law school text on the subject. He presently is editing a collection of essays on shareholder activism to be published by Oxford Press.

Bratton is a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute. In 2009, he was installed as the Anton Philips Professor at the Faculty of Law of Tilburg University in The Netherlands, the fifth American academic to hold the chair.

Reviews

[Rosewitha · Rating 4 out of 5]

My guide book to corporate finance class, I put lots of efforts to understand the theories, but still I love it at the end, passing the class with flying colours.