Agency Law in Commercial Practice

This book explores the problems in the application of agency law in commercial practice. Providing rcal context for the issues it addresses, the book analyses abstract agency law concepts and 'tests' them in specific commercial situations. The editors arc three of the leading academics in this arca, and the book contains 12 substantive chapters written hy an international team of agency experts. It otfers wide-ranging analysis that includes considération of English, Scottish, Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand law, frequently adopting a comparative approach to discuss related jurisdictions. Topics discussed include timely and contentious matters such as agency and principal dealing in sccuritics transactions and the role of the director in company law. Chapters arc grouped thcmatically, covering agency in general contract law, company law, financial transactions and services, procedural contexts, and international perspectives. The book's comparative approach provides innovative perspectives and insights, as well as practical guidance on solving commercial problems. This book is a fresh and rich resource for academics and practitioners alike, and an important contribution to both agency theory and commercial practice. Danny Busch is professor of Financial Law and Director of the Instituts for Financial Law at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. He has published extensivcly, many of those publications written in English. He is the author of Indirect Representation in European Contract Law (2005). From 2002 until 2010 he was an attorney- at- law (advocaat) with the leading Dutch international law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbrock in Amsterdam where he practised banking and securitics law. Laura Macgregor holds the Chair of Commercial Contract Law at the University of Edinburgh. She is Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law, the main aim of which is to foster doser tics between academia and commercial practice. She is Visiting Professor in International Commercial Law at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Before becoming an academie shc spent sevcn years in legal practice, most of which with a major commercial law firm in Edinburgh. She is the author of The Law of Agency in Scotland (2013), the first book dedicated to this topic. Peter Watts is a professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the general editor of the leading English text on Agency Law, Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency, now in its twentieth edition. He is a door tenant at Bankside Chambers, Auckland, and at Fountain Court Chambers, The Temple, London. He is a Queen's Counsel and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.