Corporate Law
At MacRoberts we work hard to ensure you get what you need from us.
Our corporate training programme can be tailor-made to match your requirements. Our topics include:
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
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
