Company Law Powers and Accountability by Dato’ Loh Siew Cheang - 4th Edition ( 2 Vols) - 2026

Key Features Company Law Powers and Accountability by Dato’ Loh Siew Cheang has long been recognised as an important contribution to company law. It is valued not only by practitioners and regulators, but also by those who conduct business through companies and must understand the legal framework within which corporate power is exercised and controlled. Fourth Edition Dato’ Loh Siew Cheang The new edition also contains additional subjects of company law issues of contemporary importance. Each chapter now opens with a concise abstract, enabling readers to identify the principal issues and legal principles at the outset. The discussion has also been substantially updated to reflect recent and significant case law, with particular attention to Malaysian authorities and matters of local importance. This fourth edition is an essential guide for corporate litigators, practitioners, academics, company secretaries, regulators and all readers seeking a clear and principled understanding of corporate powers, duties and accountability in modern company law. Across four editions, this work has earned exceptional praise from distinguished voices in the legal profession. Professor Farrar recognised the first edition as a work that “takes its place as one of the works of quality in the Commonwealth”, while Sir John Vinelott described it as “a bold and imaginative work”. For the second edition, the late YBhg. Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram declared that “the awaited moment was now upon us”. In her Foreword to the third edition, YBhg. Tan Sri Datuk Zainun binti Ali welcomed “a formidable trilogy”, whose works “stand out as exemplars in both the Malaysian and the global legal fraternity”. Now, in the Foreword to the forthcoming fourth edition, Tan Sri Nallini Pathmanathan describes Dato’ Loh Siew Cheang as, “without exaggeration, the doyen of corporate law in Malaysia”, praising the work as “a coherent and distinctly Malaysian account of the law”. She identifies its considerable “research, analysis and evaluation” as central to its achievement, concluding: “Works of this scope and authority are rare in any jurisdiction.” Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 The Corporate Person CHAPTER 2 The Constitution CHAPTER 3 Directors and Secretary CHAPTER 4 Removal of Directors CHAPTER 5 Members and Shares CHAPTER 6 The Auditor CHAPTER 7 Powers of The Corporate Person CHAPTER 8 Division of Powers CHAPTER 9 Corporate Powers and Third Parties CHAPTER 10 Corporate Liability and Attribution Rules CHAPTER 11 Fiduciary Powers of Directors CHAPTER 12 Majority Shareholder Power: Rights and Limitations CHAPTER 13 Equitable Constraints on Power CHAPTER 14 The Oppression Remedy CHAPTER 15 Statutory Derivative Actions CHAPTER 16 Personal Actions CHAPTER 17 Quality Control: Care, Skill and Diligence CHAPTER 18 Integrity Control: No Profit and Self-Dealing Rules CHAPTER 19 Related Party/Connected Transactions CHAPTER 20 De Facto and Shadow Directors CHAPTER 21 Interest in Shares CHAPTER 22 Substantial Shareholders CHAPTER 23 Connected Persons, Arrangements, etc CHAPTER 24 Information for Decision-making: The General Meeting CHAPTER 25 Meeting: Its Ordinary and Legal Meaning CHAPTER 26 Convention and Constitution of Meetings CHAPTER 27 The Chairman and the Conduct of Meetings CHAPTER 28 General Meetings Under The Act CHAPTER 29 The Proxy System CHAPTER 30 Solicitation of Votes, etc CHAPTER 31 Unanimous Consent Principle CHAPTER 32 Circular Resolutions CHAPTER 33 Compliance and Enforcement: Main Market Listing Requirements (‘MMLR’) CHAPTER 34 The MMLR Public Disclosure Rules CHAPTER 35 Insider Trading CHAPTER 36 Winding-Up Mechanisms Proper and Improper Use CHAPTER 37 Compulsory Winding up: From Presentation of Petition to Order CHAPTER 38 Winding Up: Just and Equitable CHAPTER 39 Winding Up: Deemed Insolvency CHAPTER 40 Section 581: Judicial Relief From Breach of Duties CHAPTER 41 Section 582: Judicial Validation of Irregular Proceeding CHAPTER 42 Section 351: Judicial Power to Grant Injunction Author Dato' Loh Siew Cheang Publication Date September 2026 ISBN 9786297829500 Format Hard Back Publisher LexisNexis About the Author Dato’ Loh Siew Cheang graduated from the University of Malaya. He was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1978 and since then has been in active practice and specialises in litigation and transactional advice on company law, corporate finance and the capital markets. He is the co-author of Company Law (Hong Kong) with Dr.William Wong SC and Kerby Lau, which is now in its second edition. He was a former member of the Corporate Law Reform Committee which was set up to assist in the revision of the Companies Act 1965.