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Butterworths Hong Kong Company Law Handbook, 16th Edition

Butterworths Hong Kong Company Law Handbook, 16th Edition

Author: ELG Tyler; Stefan Lo
Publisher: LexisNexis Hong Kong
ISBN: 9789888300150
Published In: September 2014
Format: Paperback , 1696 pages
Jurisdiction: Hong Kong ? Disclaimer:
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This newly released Butterworths® Hong Kong Company Law Handbook, 16th Edition showcases authoritative, comprehensive and relevant section-by-section annotations by Companies Ordinance pioneers ELG Tyler and Stefan Lo.

Butterworths Hong Kong Company Law Handbook thoroughly covers the new Companies Ordinance (Cap 622) which came into force on 3rd March 2014. This edition aims to deal with one of the most complex pieces of Hong Kong legislation, providing section-by-section annotations. Comprising of 21 parts, 921 sections and 11 schedules, Cap 622 is a comprehensive rewrite of the old Companies Ordinance (Cap 32). Among the key changes introduced by this Ordinance are:

The abolition of the memorandum of association and the mandatory requirement to keep a common seal (Part 3 – Company Formation and Related Matters, and Re-registration of Company)
The abolition of shares with par value (Part 4 – Share Capital)
A uniform solvency test for different transactions as well as an alternative court- free procedure for reduction of capital based on a solvency test (Part 5 – Transactions in relation to Share Capital)
A revision of the list of registrable charges (Part 8 – Registration of Charges)
New sanctions relating to the contents of auditor’s reports (Part 9 – Accounts and Audit)

This series has been cited with authority, in over one hundred court cases in the Hong Kong Court of First Instance, Court of Appeal and Court of Final Appeal. This handbook will be an invaluable source of information for practitioners, legal advisers, company secretaries, students and anyone interested in the laws governing companies in Hong Kong.

ELG Tyler
MA (Oxon); Barrister, Lincoln’s Inn and Hong Kong; Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Tasmania and the High and Federal Courts of Australia; Department of Justice; formerly Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong and District Judge Hong Kong; Senior Assistant Law Officer, Commercial III (Companies Ordinance Rewrite Team), Department of Justice, HKSARG.

Professor Tyler came to Hong Kong in 1985 from Australia. He was a professor at The University of Hong Kong from 1985 to 1991, when he became a District Court Judge. He returned to academia in 1994 to City University of Hong Kong and retired from there back to Australia in 2005. In 2007 he returned to Hong Kong to a temporary position in the Commercial Unit, Civil Division, Department of Justice working on the Companies Ordinance Rewrite (The new Companies Ordinance was passed in July 2012). He is now working on the Improvement of Corporate Insolvency Law exercise. Professor Tyler has lectured and written on Hong Kong Company Law for the past 25 years.

Stefan Lo
BA, LLB (Syd), LLM (Syd)
Department of Justice HKSARG

Stefan was appointed to the Civil Division of the Department of Justice in 2009 to advise on the Companies Ordinance Rewrite. He was previously Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, where he taught company and commercial law. Stefan has researched and published widely in corporate and securities law in textbooks, treatises, and local and international journals. He is a Research Affiliate of the Sydney Law School’s Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law.