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Basics of the Agency Relationship

Business often is conducted by agents who act for others. For example, insurance policies may be sold through agents. Agencies also exist in relationships between guardians and wards, employees and employers, estates and executors, and partners. ...

Antitrust & Trade Law: Sherman Act

Agreements in unreasonable restraint of trade are prohibited by Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.S. § 1. While Section 1 of the Sherman Act provides that "every contract, combination in the form of a trust or otherwise, or...

Directors' Liability - Torts and Wrongful Acts

Torts and Wrongful Acts

Generally, corporate directors and officers will not be held individually liable for torts or crimes committed by the corporation solely by virtue of their status as...

Securities Transfer Agents

Securities Transfer Agents

Transfer agents track the owners of securities. They also perform several other services for companies with registered and publicly traded securities in the course of tracking the owners of...

Rulemaking by the Securities and Exchange Commission

Federal agencies adopt rules to implement laws. Following the stock market crash in 1929, laws were passed to reform securities markets and to broaden the amount and accuracy of information to be made available to investors by issuers of...