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CorpoLaw 2016
BAROT
2nd Semester 2016 pdbarot@picazolaw.com
LAW 501M : CORPORATION LAW
Tuesdays and Fridays, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
(except as indicated below)
Rooms A904 / A1606
Course Description: A study of the law on private corporations, based on the Corporation Code and related laws.
Subjects covered include: the powers and functions of the Securities and Exchange Commission; the types of private corporations; the
incorporation and registration of private corporations; the powers, duties and functions of the board of directors/trustees and corporate
officers; the powers of corporations; subscriptions, stocks and stockholders; corporate books and records; merger and consolidation; the
appraisal right; non-stock, close and special corporations; dissolution; securities regulation and foreign corporations.
Textbook: CAMPOS, Jose Jr. and CAMPOS, Maria Clara L., THE CORPORATION CODE, Comments, Notes and Selected Cases, Volumes 1 and 2,
1990
Reference Books: 1. DE LEON, Hector S. and DE LEON, Hector Jr. M., THE CORPORATION CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES Annotated, 2013
2. LOPEZ, Rosario N., THE CORPORATION CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES Annotated, Volumes 1 - 3, 1994
Wk 1: THE CORPORATE ENTITY Campos, Chapter III, IV and V McArthur v Times Printing (51 NW 216)
Jan 15, Fri De Leon/Lopez Cagayan Fishing v Sandiko (65 Phil 223)
INCORPORATION AND o 10 - 15; 17 - 22 Builders Duralle v. Dunn (17 SW 2d 715)
Wk 2: REGISTRATION OF Rizal Light v PSC and Morong Electric (25 SCRA 285)
Jan 19, Tue CORPORATIONS Quaker Hill v Parr (364 P 2d 1056)
Old Dominion Copper Mining and Smelting Co. v Bigelow (89
Wk 2: NE 193)
Jan 22, Fri
Philips Export BV v CA (206 SCRA 457)
Wk 3: Lyceum of the Phils. v CA (219 SCRA 610)
Jan 26, Tue P.C. Javier & Sons, Inc. v CA (462 SCRA 36)
Philippine First Insurance Co., Inc. v Hartigan (74 SCRA 252)
Wk 3:
Zuellig Freight v NLRC (701 SCRA 561)
Jan 29, Fri
Malabang v Benito (27 SCRA 533)
Harril v Davis (168 F. 187)
Hall v Piccio (86 Phil 603)
Asia Banking Corp. v Standard Products Co. (46 Phil 145)
Cranson v IBM (200 A 2d 33)
Salvatierra v Garlitos (103 Phil 757)
Chiang Kai Shek School v CA (172 SCRA 389)
Wk 6: CORPORATE Campos, Chapter VIII Otis & Co. v Pennsylvania R. Co. (61 F. Supp. 905)
Feb 16, Tue GOVERNANCE: DUTIES De Leon/Lopez Montelibano v Bacolod-Murcia Milling Co., Inc. (5 SCRA 36)
OF DIRECTORS AND o 31-34 PSE v CA (281 SCRA 232)
CONTROLLING Litwin v Allen (25 N.Y.S. 2d 667)
STOCKHOLDERS Walker v Man (253 NYS 458)
Steinberg v Velasco (52 Phil 953)
Barnes v Andrews (298 F. 614)
Pool v Pool (22 SO 2d 131)
Foster v Bowen (41 NE 2d 181)
Lowell Hoit & Co. v Detig (50 N.E. 2d 602)
Bates v Dresser (251 US 524)
Palting v San Jose Petroleum, Inc. (18 SCRA 924)
Mead v E.C. McCullough (21 Phil 95)
Piccard v Sperry Corporation (48 F. Supp. 465)
Government of the Phil. v El Hogar Filipino (50 Phil 399)
Barretto v La Previsora Filipina (57 Phil 649)
Wk 7: CORPORATE Campos, Chapter IX W.G. Philpotts v Phil Mfg Co. and F.N. Berry (40 Phil 471)
Feb 26, Fri GOVERNANCE; De Leon/Lopez Pardo v Hercules Lumber Co. (47 Phil 965)
INFORMATION RIGHTS o 74-75 Gonzales v PNB (122 SCRA 489)
Veraguth v Isabela Sugar Co. (57 Phil 266)
Gokongwei v SEC (89 SCRA 336)
Wk 8:
Mar 1, Tue MID -TERMS
(1:00 - 5:00 pm)
Wk 8: CORPORATE Campos, Chapter X Pascual v Orozco (19 Phil 82)
Mar 4, Fri GOVERNANCE: Evangelista v Santos (86 Phil 837)
DERIVATIVE SUITS Liken v Shaffer (64 F. Supp. 432)
Keenan v Eshleman (2 A.2d 904)
Otis & Co. v Pennsylvania R. Co. (57 F. Supp. 680)
Republic Bank v Cuaderno (19 SCRA 671)
Reyes v Tan (3 SCRA 198)
Chase v CFI-Manila (18 SCRA 602)
Holmes v Camp (180 A.2d 409)
Gamboa v Victoriano (90 SCRA 40)
San Miguel v Kahn (176 SCRA 447)
Villamor, Jr. v Umale (736 SCRA 325)
Ang v Ang (699 SCRA 272)
Cua, Jr. v Tan (607 SCRA 648)
Wk 9: CORPORATE FINANCE: Campos, Chapter XI (pp. 1-117); Chapter XII; Ellingwood v Wolfs Head Oil Refining Co., Inc. (38 A.2d 743)
Mar 8, Tue SHARES OF STOCK Chapter XV Hay v Hay (230 P.2d 791)
De Leon/Lopez Garcia v Lim Chu Sing (59 Phil 562)
Wk 9: CORPORATE FINANCE: o 6-9 Utah Hotel Co. v Madsen (134 Pac 557)
Mar 11, Fri SUBSCRIPTIONS, o 13 Wallace v Eclipse Pocahontas Coal Company (98 SE 293)
TRANSFERS o 39 Bayla v Silang Traffic Co., Inc. (73 Phil 557)
Wk 10: o 60-73 Datu Tagoranao Benito v SEC (123 SCRA 722)
Mar 15, Tue Stokes v Continental Trust Co. (78 NE 1090)
Week 11:
Mar 25 GOOD FRIDAY
Wk 12: CORPORATE FINANCE: Campos, Chapter XIII Nielson & Company, Inc. v Lepanto Consolidated (26 SCRA 540)
Mar 29, Tue DIVIDENDS AND SHARE De Leon/Lopez Berks Broadcasting v Cramer (52 A.2d 571)
BUY-BACK o 41, 43 Lich v United States Rubber Co. (39 F. Supp. 675)
Wk 12: Keough v St. Paul Milk Co. (285 NV 809)
Apr 1, Fri Dodge v Ford Motor Co. (170 NW 668)
Burk v Ottawa Gas & Electric Co. (123 Pac 875)
McLaran v Crescent Planning (93 SW 819)
Turner v Lorenzo Shipping Corporation (636 SCRA 13)
Wk 14: CORPORATE FINANCE: Campos, Chapter XVII Reyes v Blouse (91 Phil 305)
Apr 12, Tue MERGER AND De Leon/Lopez Edward J. Nell v Pacific Farms (15 SCRA 415)
CONSOLIDATION o 76-80 Bank of Commerce (721 SCRA 520)
o 40
Wk 15: CORPORATE POWERS: Campos, Chapter XIV Marcus v RH Macy (74 NE 2d 228)
Apr 19, Tue CHARTER AMENDMENTS De Leon/Lopez Philippine Trust Co. v Rivera (44 Phil 469)
o 16, 17
o 11, 37
o 38
o 81
Wk 17: FOREIGN CORPORATIONS Campos, Chapter XVIII Marshall-Wells Co. v Elser (46 Phil 71)
May 3, Tue De Leon/Lopez Columbia Pictures v CA (261 SCRA 144)
o 123 - 136 General Garments v Dir. of Patents (41 SCRA 50)
Wk 17: FIA and IRR Le Chemise Lacoste v Fernandez (129 SCRA 373)
May 6, Fri Litton Mills v CA (256 SCRA 696)
Mentholatum v Mangaliman (72 Phil 524)
Agilent Technologies Singapore (Pte) Ltd. v Integrated Silicon
Technology Philippines Corporation (427 SCRA 593)
Merryl Lynch Futures, Inc. v CA (211 SCRA 824)
DLSU College of Law
2nd Semester 2016
LAW 501M, Section G02: Corporation Law, Barot
Date Topics Reference; Reading Materials Cases
Top Weld Manufacturing, Inc. v ECED (138 SCRA 118)
Antam Consolidated v CA (143 SCRA 288)
Cargill, Inc. v Intra Strata Assurance Corporation (615 SCRA
304)
Wk 18: DISSOLUTION Campos, Chapter XVI Financing Corporation of the Philippines v Teodoro (93 Phil
May 10, Tue De Leon/Lopez 678)
o 117-122 RP v Bisaya Land Transportation Co., Inc. (81 SCRA 9)
Wk 18: o 22 Gonzales v Sugar Regulatory Adm. (174 SCRA 377)
May 13, Fri o 145 Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines, Inc. v CA (443 SCRA 580)
National Abaca & Other Fibers Corporation v Pore (2 SCRA
989)
China Banking Corporation v Michelin & Cie (58 Phil 261)
Republic vs. Marsman Development Company (44 SCRA 418)
Tan Tiong Bio v CIR (4 SCRA 986)
Aguirre II v FQB+7, Inc. (688 SCRA 242)
Wk 19:
May 20, Fri FINALS
(1:00 - 5:00 pm)