FULL CONTENTS
Chapter 1 – Types of business and corporate structures
Unincorporated
Incorporated
Choice of business structure
Overseas companies
Group structures
Chapter 2 – Company and business names
Chapter 3 – Company formation and constitution
Chapter 4 – Shares and share capital
Types of share
Share issues and allotments
Variation of class rights
Changes to share capital
Own share purchases and redemption
Reduction of share capital
Chapter 5 – Dividends and distributions
Chapter 6 – Transfer and transmission of shares
Chapter 7 – Shareholders
Chapter 8 – Directors
Appointment
Duties
Service contract
Remuneration
Loans to directors
Termination
Disqualification
Chapter 9 – Company management and decision making
Management roles
Board decisions
Shareholder decisions
Company registers
Companies House
Chapter 10 – Company secretary
Chapter 11 – Company accounts
Chapter 12 – Company finance
Debt finance
Private equity finance
Chapter 13 – Buying and selling a company
Chapter 14 – Corporate restructuring and development
Hive-down
Share for share exchange
Section 110 reorganisation
Scheme of arrangement
Joint ventures
Takeovers
Chapter 15 – Litigation and investigations
Chapter 16 – Introduction to corporate insolvency
Informal solutions
Formal solutions
General principles
Dissolution and striking off
Restoration to the register
Chapter 17 – Compulsory liquidation
Chapter 18 – Voluntary liquidation
Creditors’ voluntary liquidation
Members’ voluntary liquidation
Chapter 19 – Administration
Chapter 20 – Receivership
Chapter 21 – Company voluntary arrangements
Appendix
Companies House forms and filing deadlines
Useful contacts
Table A 1985
Comparison between Table A 1985 and Table A 1948
Model Articles for private companies limited by shares
Model Articles for public companies
Model Articles for private companies limited by guarantee
Comparison between Table A 1985 and the Model Articles for private companies limited by shares and public companies
Sample director’s service contract
Definition of “connected person”
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