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Corporate Training

Each Corporate topic can be covered separately or in a mix-and-match format to best suit your organisation:

Directors

• Directors’ Duties and Responsibilities
• Good governance
• Board Meetings
• Board Committees
• Board Resolutions/Decision Making
• Disqualification as a Director
• Insolvency Act
• Wrongful and fraudulent trading
• Protection from personal liability - practical steps to be taken

Company Secretaries 

• How do I act as a Company Secretary?
• Duties and Responsibilities
• Good governance

Shareholder Rights and Remedies

• Shareholder agreements
• Memorandum and articles of association 
• Unfair Prejudice
• Rights attached to % shareholdings
• General Meetings
• Shareholder decision making

Business Structures

• Companies
• LLPs
• Partnerships
• Joint Ventures
• Unincorporated Associations

Charities

• Choice of legal form
• Peculiarities of the Companies Act
• Recognition as a charity
• Charities Bill/Act/Legislative changes
• Preservation of charitable status
• Directors’ duties
• Position of the charities commissioner
• Governance issues

Investing in a Company

• Debt or equity
• Shareholder protection
• Security
• Board representation

The future of Company Law

• Implementation of The Companies Act 2006

Corporate Governance

• Directors
• Shareholders
• Company Secretary
• Committees
• Reporting

Joint Ventures

• Choice of legal form
• Costs and benefits
• Exit strategies

Corporate Acquisitions and Disposals

• Grooming for sale
• Warranties and disclosures
• Structuring the price
• Project management
• Doing the deal
• Third party approvals
• Shareholder approvals
• Standard procedure/timetable
• Usual suspects (causes of delay)

MBOs

• Making the approach
• Conflicts of interest
• Financing the deal
• Enhancing the management team
• Shareholder approvals
• Tax issues
• Doing the deal