Shares and Other Securities in the Conflict of Laws [Hardcover]

This book examines the problems of choice of law where transactions cross borders and involve shares or other securities of different nationalities. It considers dealings in securities under the traditional direct holding system and under the modern system of holding through intermediaries. Various theories and legislative reforms have been suggested in an attempt to resolve these two methods, and the book examines the extent to which they provide a viable solution.

Introduction
Part I
1. The present state of the common law
2. Analysis of choice of law rules which have been applied to shares
3. What is a share?
4. 'Transfers' or 'assignments' and 'pledges' of shares
5. Characterization
Part II
6. The indirect holding system
7. Analysis of choice of law approaches for the indirect holding system
8. Assignments and collateralization
9. The effect of insolvency
Part III
10. Statutory intervention
11. Revised Articles 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code
12. European Legislation
13. Proposed Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary
14. Comparison of choice of law treatments
15. Reformulation of choice of law rules

Dr. Maisie Ooiwas educated at the University of Malaya and the University of Oxford, and was awarded her DPhil in 2001. She is Senior Associate with the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Hong Kong.