A practical guide for company secretaries, practitioners and business professionals to perform the compliance function of a listed company by applying the respective laws, rules and regulations in different fictitious scenarios.
Compliance and Company Secretarial Practice of Hong Kong Listed Companies provides a neat and concise guide to all compliance and company secretarial practices that every Hong Kong listed company must abide by. Viewed through a real world scenario setting of a fictitious company, this publication offers both a concise and comprehensive analysis of these explicit guidelines which will help facilitate a wider understanding of corporate secretarial practice.
Several aspects and stages of development of a listed company are examined:
- Fundamental concepts of restructuring a private limited company into a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Cayman Islands company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange
- Account of the extensive continuing obligations imposed on a listed company and its officers
- Reviews and explains the compliance and secretarial practices
- Examines how a restructuring exercise can help to revive an ailing listed company
Most up-to-date statutory and non-statutory compliances include:
- The New Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622)
- The Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571)
- The Cayman Companies Law
- The Rules Governing the Listing of securities on the Stock Exchange and the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the GEM of the Stock Exchange
- The Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers and Share Buy-backs
- Ongoing or ad hoc compliance and company secretarial practice as required by the Hong Kong Companies Registry