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Legal Training Corporate Law
MacRoberts' corporate training programme covers a wide range of topics and can be tailored to your requirements.
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