Company Law Handbook.
By: Sheikh, Saleem.
Series: Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, ©2022Description: 589 p.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781526515599; 152651558X.Genre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | KD2072 .S44 2022 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000019404 |
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Table of statutes -- Table of statutory instruments -- Table of Cases -- 1 Pre-incorporation -- Introduction -- Promoters -- Promoters' duties -- Remedies -- Pre-incorporation contracts -- Checklist -- 2 Corporate Personality -- Introduction -- Corporate personality -- The Salomon case -- Piercing the corporate veil -- Piercing the veil by legislation -- Checklist -- 3 Formation and registration of a company -- Introduction -- Off-the-shelf companies -- Tailor-made company -- Purposes of the company.
Registration documents -- Statement of capital and initial shareholdings -- Statement of guarantee -- Statement of proposed officers -- Statement of initial significant control -- Statement of compliance -- Memorandum of Association -- Articles of Association -- Registration -- Issue of certificate of incorporation -- Company: registered office and change of address -- Checklist: incorporation of a private company limited by shares -- Checklist: differences between a private and a public company -- 4 The company's constitution -- Introduction -- The company's constitution.
Articles of Association -- Shareholders' agreement -- Model articles of association -- Contractual status of the articles of association: 'insider' and 'outsider' rights -- a statutory contract -- Status of the memorandum of association -- Construction of the articles of association -- Construing articles of association -- Rectification -- Possible rectification under CA 2006, s 994 -- Implied terms in articles of association -- Shareholders' informed consent -- Checklist: alteration of articles of association -- Checklist: model articles for private company limited by shares.
Checklist: articles of association -- 5 Corporate capacity and related matters -- Introduction -- Background to corporate capacity -- Corporate capacity -- Formalities of doing business under the law of England and Wales -- Checklist -- 6 Company re-registration -- Introduction -- Companies that may alter their status -- Checklist: private company becoming public -- Checklist: public company becoming private -- Checklist: private limited company becoming unlimited -- Checklist: unlimited private company becoming limited -- Checklist: public company becoming private and unlimited.
7 Corporate governance and the code -- Introduction -- The establishment of corporate governance committees -- The UK Corporate Governance Code -- The main principles of the UK Corporate Governance Code -- Checklist: corporate governance framework -- 8 Directors: types, appointment and removal -- Introduction -- Definition of a director -- Distinguishing between various types of directors -- Directors: types, appointment and removal -- Director's appointment -- Register of directors -- Particulars of directors to be registered -- individuals -- Register of directors' residential addresses.