The Hong Kong Company Secretary's Handbook: Practice and Procedure (10th Edition)

1. Introduction
2. Formation of a Company
3. Post-incorporation Formalities
4. Share Capital and Financial Assistance for Purchase of Shares
5. Methods of Raising Share Capital
6. Partly Paid Shares
7. Alteration of Share Capital and Variation of Class Rights
8. Company Meetings
9. Company Directors
10. Company Secretary
11. Auditors
12. Change of Company’s Name, Objects Clauses, Articles of Association, and Registered Office
13. Bank Accounts
14. Common Seals, Securities Seal, and Official Seal
15. Transfer of Shares
16. Transmission of Shares
17. Share Certificates
18. Registration of Documents
19. Loan Capital / Debentures
20. Registration of Charges
21. Notifiable Transactions and Connected Transactions
22. Securities and Futures Ordinance – Part XV: Disclosure of Interests
23. Dividends
24. Company Accounts, Directors’ Reports, and Business Reviews
25. Annual General Meeting
26. Redemption of Redeemable Shares and Share Buy-back
27. Reduction of Share Capital
28. Schemes of Arrangement
29. Takeovers and Mergers, and Amalgamation of Group Companies
30. Dissolution of a Company
31. Non-Hong Kong Companies
32. Liberian Companies
33. Panamanian Companies
34. British Virgin Islands Business Companies – Companies Limited by Shares
35. Bermuda Companies – Exempted Companies
36. PRC Companies
37. Listing of Securities on the Singapore Stock Exchange – Catalist Board
38. Corporate Governance Matters
39. Listing of Securities on the Growth Enterprise Market / Second Board of the Stock Exchange
40. Cayman Islands Companies – Exempted Companies

Appendices

• Company Secretary’s Checklist for Holding a Board Meeting
• Company Secretary’s Checklist for Holding and Annual General Meeting of a Listed Company
• Sample Documents
• List of Prescribed Forms
• Useful Information Available on the Website of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Index

Cheng Po Wah, LLB (Hons) (London), PCLL (HKU), LLM (London), LLM (Wolverhampton), LLM (CityU), Barrister. Head, Company Secretarial Services Department of a law firm which specializes in corporate finance and initial public offerings. Former university lecturer who has substantial experience in teaching subjects which include “Hong Kong Company Law”, “Hong Kong business Law”, “Hong Kong Securities Law” and “Hong Kong Taxation” at four Hong Kong universities.

Sum Heung Suet, Anna, FCIS, FCS, MA, Senior lecturer, Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration, The Open University of Hong Kong. Former lecturer of the School of Accounting and Finance at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Yuen Kam Tim, Francis, FCIS, FCS, Director of a consultancy company. Prior to this he founded a share registration company with some investors and acted as its Managing Director for 10 years until he sold his shares.