Business Law Essays

Multinationals and Corporate Governance
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Feb 2025
Introduction: LawTeacher.net offers a sample essay in business law titled Multinationals and Corporate Governance and the importance of OECD Guidelines....

Formal Corporate Rescue
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Feb 2025
Introduction: A LawTeacher.net sample essay within the realm of business law about formal corporate rescue....

Concept of Vicarious Liability
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Nov 2022
Introduction: Explain the economic logic behind laws related to the concept of vicarious liability The simple definition of vicarious liability is where ......

Lifting of the Corporate Veil Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Oct 2021
Introduction: From the juristic point of view, a company is a legal person distinct from its members [Salomon v. Salomon and Co. Ltd. (1897) A.C 22]. This principle may be referred to as the ‘Veil of incorporation’. The courts in general consider themselves bound by this principle....

Adams v Cape Industries
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Oct 2021
Introduction: The fundamental principle established in Salomon in relation to single companies was applied in the context of a group of companies by the Court of Appeal in the case under discussion in this paper, Adams v Cape Industries plc (1990)....

Duties of Company Directors
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Sep 2021
Introduction: The directors’ duties to the company were governed by the common law of negligence and the equitable principles of fiduciary duties before the CA 2006....

Borrowing Powers of a Company
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Sep 2021
Introduction: Every trading company has an implied power to borrow, as borrowing is implied in the object for which it is incorporated. A non-trading company has no implied power to borrow....

Separate Legal Personality of a Company
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2021
Introduction: The aim of this essay is to discuss and evaluate to what extent the separate legal personality has affected company law and with what consequences....

Alteration of Memorandum of Association
Example essay. Last modified: 22nd Sep 2021
Introduction: The importance of a company's Memorandum of Association and the process and procedure involved in the alteration of a Memorandum of Association....

Separate Legal Entity and Limited Liability Differences
Example essay. Last modified: 22nd Sep 2021
Introduction: This research was carried to investigate the difference between separate legal entity and limited liability....

Role of Promoters in Company Establishment
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Sep 2021
Introduction: When an individual has an idea for a new business venture, they may set about interesting others in the venture to contribute capital. That person is described as a promoter....

Shareholder Wealth Maximization
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Sep 2021
Introduction: Maximizing shareholder wealth is often a superior goal of the company, creating profit to increase the dividends paid out for each common stock....

A Company is an Artificial Person Created by Law
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Sep 2021
Introduction: The incorporation of a company is an artificial entity recognized by the law as a legal person that exists independently. This paper analyses the development of the corporate structure....

Separate Legal Entity of a Company
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Sep 2021
Introduction: How a company is a separate legal entity and what that means for the liability of its shareholders and directors in law....

Critical Analysis of Lords Decision in Street v Mountford
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Sep 2021
Introduction: This assignment will consider the case of Street v Mountford and consider the decision and speech of Lord Templeman and analyse whether or not the correct conclusions were reached. The assignment will then go on to consider the implications of the case and its subsequent application....

The Amalgamation of Companies
Example essay. Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Introduction: Amalgamation is form of business combination. It is used as some other meaning like merger, absorption, consolidation, acquisition etc. It occurs When a company wants to expand their business in terms of long term profitability under a mutual setting by two parties...

Liability of Parent Company for actions of Subsidiary
Example essay. Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Introduction: The basic feature of corporate personality is that the corporation is a legal entity distinct from its members. The main advantage that it has is that it is capable of having rights and of being subject to duties which are not identical as those enjoyed or borne by its members...

Problems faced by Minority Shareholders
Example essay. Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Introduction: The main problem on which focus in this essay is required on the effectiveness of the treatment which is most commonly used by minority shareholders to get some personal treatment in wake of breaches of directors’ duties, or of other inadequate conduct of company business....

Insider Trading and Business Ethics
Example essay. Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Introduction: In this paper, we will discuss the meaning of an insider trading, who is an insider, the two types of insider trading, the ethics involved in insider trading, Martha Stewart’s scandal concerning insider trading, the Enron scandal VS. Martha Stewart scandal, the law view insider trading in the USA...

Transfer and Transmission of Shares
Example essay. Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Introduction: Transferability is an important feature of a share in a company registered under the Companies Act, from which emanates another feature of a company- perpetual succession. It endows a company with perpetual and uninterrupted existence....

Six Types of Business Organizations
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Aug 2021
Introduction: Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of each business type is imperative; since the right business organization is based on individual circumstances, not a magic bullet that works for everyone and every unique situation....

Previously Under the Common Law also Known as Case Law or Precedent
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Jun 2021
Introduction: Vicarious liability is the legal liability imposed on one person for torts and crimes committed by another, even though they are not......

Pre-incorporation Contracts and the Promoter
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Jun 2021
Introduction: In order to do away with these inconveniences, the promoter [5] can enter into the agreements in the benefit of ‘association of persons’ or prospective company; these agreements are known as pre-incorporation contract....

Schemes of Arrangement and Takeover Bids
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Jun 2021
Introduction: This paper outlines and reviews the validity of schemes of arrangements and compares it with the formal takeover bid, in particular Chapter 6 of the Corporations Act. This paper aims to do this by pinpointing the various attitudes and views of legal commentators and regulators....

Duties and Obligations of a Liquidator - Malta
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Jun 2021
Introduction: Explain and discuss the duties and obligations of a liquidator of a limited liability company which has been wound up upon an order by the Court. The relevant provisions relating to the local law concerning insolvency are found mainly in the Companies Act (chapter 386 of the Laws of Malta) and the Commercial Code....