My previous post listing my favorite books in corporate governance turned out to be fairly popular. A few readers suggested however that my list contained few books that a practitioner would find useful in day to day practice. I don’t know whether that’s true, but I will accept that my list had an academic focus. Here is a list of my ten favorite books with a practioner focus. Most of them are treatises. What’s missing is the “Guide to Dodd-Frank” although I am sure someone will publish that once the implementing regulations are completed. Until then, of course, your best bet to understand the corporate governance implications of Dodd-Frank is to read Defending Against Shareholder Proxy Access: Delaware’s Future Reviewing Company Defenses in the Era of Dodd-Frank.
Ribstein and Keatinge on Limited Liability Companies, West Second Edition
Loss, Seligman, & Paredes, Fundamentals of Securities Regulation, Aspen, Fifth Edition,
Marc Steinberg, Securities Regulation: Liabilities and Remedies, Law Journal Press
Welch, Saunders, & Turezyn, Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law, Fifth Edition
R. Franklin Balotti, Delaware Law of Corporations and Business Organizations Deskbook, Aspen
Drexler, Black, & Sparks, Delaware Corporate Law and Practice, Matthew Bender