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目录 1

CONTENTS 1

．What Is a Corporation? 1 1

．The Las Relating to the Corporation 5 2

．The Corporate Law of Delaware 10 3

．The Forms of Corporate 14 4

．The Tax Affectiong the Corporate 19 5

．The Process of Incorporation 23 6

．The Corporation by Estoppel 28 7

．A De Facto Corporation 32 8

．The Duties of Promoters 37 9

．The Article of Incorporation 41 10

．Bylaws 46 11

．The Fall of the Doctrine in Modem Common 12

Law 52 13

．The Corporation Finance 56 13

．Stock 60 14

．Treasury Stock 65 15

．No par Shares 69 16

．Duly Authorized,Validly Issued,Fully Paid, 17

．Debt 77 18

and Nonassessable 73 18

．Leverage 82 19

．Closely Held Corporation 86 20

．A Minority Shareholder s Options 90 21

．Deadlocks 96 22

．Freezeouts and Forceouts 100 23

．Control Devices in Close Corporation 105 24

．Prercing the Veil of the Corporation 109 25

．Corporate Governance Structure 114 26

．The Procedural Requirements of the Meeting 27

．Rights of Inspection by Shareholders 124 28

of the Shareholders 119 28

．Consent in Lieu of Meeting 129 29

．Vote-Pooling Agreements 134 30

．Dissenters Appraisal Rights 139 31

．Independent Director 144 32

．Committee of the Board 149 33

．The Director as a “Fiduciary” 154 34

．The Duty of Loyalty 158 35

．Corporate Opportunity Doctrine 164 36

．Remedies for Self-Dealing 168 37

．Duty of Care 172 38

．Business Judgment Rule 177 39

．Compensation of directors 182 40

．Limitations on Directors Liability 186 41

．Indemnification and Insurance 190 42

．Board Action 195 43

．Two Types of the Votine 200 44

．The Introduction of the “Proxy” 205 45

．Securities Law in General 210 46

．The Proxy Rules Apply to Proxy Solicitations 47

．The Chief Executive Officer 218 48

．Secretary and Treasurer 223 49

．Institutional Investors 227 50

．Direct and Derivative Suite In General 232 51

．The Distorted Incentives Created by Derivative 52

Litigation 236 53

．Plaintiff Standing-Contemporaneous and 53

Continuing Equity Ownership 241 54

．Defenses in a Derivative Suit 246 54

．Court Approval of Settlement 250 55

．The Definition of a Security 255 56

．Securities Law in General 261 57

．Civil Liability under the 1933 Act 266 58

．Corporate Distributions 271 59

．Merger and Consolidations 277 60

．De Facto Merger 282 61

．Triangular or Reverse-triangular Mergers 286 62

．Cash-Out Mergers,“Upstream”and 63

“Downstream”Mergers 290 64

．Short Form Mergers 294 64

．Two-tier Buyout and Any-and-all Cash Offer 298 65

．The Hostile Choices——Proxy Contest 66

or Tender Offer 302 67

．The Insurgent s Uphill Battle in a Proxy 67

．Unorthodox Tender Offer-High-Pressure 68

Contest 306 68

Open Market Purchase 310 69

．A Garden-Variety Takeover Drama 314 69

．An Introduction to Insider Trading 318 70

．Fraud or Deceit——Limited Tort Liability 322 71

．Special Facts Doctrine and Strict（kansas） 72

Rule 326 73

．Limitations of Special Facts Doctrine and 73

Kansas Rule 330 74

．Liability to the Corporation for Insider Trading 74