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Company Law Handbook: the Fundamentals

Company Law Handbook: the Fundamentals

Author: Saleem Sheikh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
ISBN: 9781526515599

Previous Edition ISBN: 9781784514365
Published In: April 2022
Format: Paperback , 592 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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.

1 Regulatory framework of company law
2 Pre-incorporation
3 Classification of companies
4 Corporate personality
5 Formation and registration of a company
6 The company's constitution
7 Corporate capacity and related matters
8 Company and business names
9 Company re-registration
10 Shareholders and exercise of rights
11 Corporate governance and the code
12 Legal aspects of corporate social responsibility
13 Directors: types, appointment and removal
14 Directors' duties
15 Directors: specific duties
16 Directors' remuneration
17 Directors' disqualification
18 Derivative claims
19 Unfair prejudicial conduct
20 Company secretaries
21 Resolutions and meetings
22 Control of political donations and expenditure
23 Accounts and reports
24 Audits and auditors
25 Company share capital
26 Acquisition by limited company of its own shares
27 Debentures
28 Certification, transfer of securities and people with significant control
29 Information about interests in a company's shares
30 Distributions
31 Annual confirmation
32 Company charges
33 Dissolution and restoration to the register
34 Company investigations
35 Registrar of companies
36 Offences under the Companies Acts
37 Statutory auditors
38 Auditors General
39 Corporate manslaughter
40 Bribery and commercial organisations

“Saleem Sheikh's "Company Law Handbook 2016" is the first annual update of this handbook which provides a wide-ranging overview of company law that will be of interest to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. The handbook covers all the stages in the life of a company and its structure will enable readers to pinpoint what they are looking for easily.” – David White, KPMG LLP