Full Description
Charts the company life-cycle from pre-incorporation, through incorporation and culminates with the winding up process, addressing, in detail, the essential requirements in establishing a company, including the steps, procedures and documents that are required during the existence of the corporation.
The handbook highlights significant cases and principal judgments that impact on UK company law.
Checklists guide you through legislative provisions and their application to the day-to-day running of a business throughout its life-cycle, and key definitions at the end of each chapter make it accessible by simplifying the legal concepts involved.
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online service.
Contents
1. Pre-incorporation
2. Corporate Personality
3. Formation and registration of a company
4. The company's constitution and corporate capacity
5. Corporate capacity and related matters
6. Company re-registration
7. Corporate governance and the code
8. Directors: types, appointment and removal
9. Directors' general duties
10. Directors' specific duties
11. Directors' disqualification
12. Derivative claims
13. Unfair prejudicial conduct
14. Company secretaries
15. Resolutions and meetings
16. Auditors' liability
17. Company share capital
18. Acquisition by limited company of its own shares
19. Company charges
20. Certification, transfer of securities and people with significant control
21. Information about interests in a company's shares
22. Dissolution and restoration to the register
23. Registrar of companies
24. Company investigations
25. Legal aspects of corporate social responsibility
