Company Law - Keane


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Published: 25-11-2016

Edition: 5th

ISBN: 9781780435428 

Paperback 

 

About Keane on Company Law


Keane on Company Law, Fifth Edition (previously: Company Law by Justice Ronan Keane) covers the Companies Act 2014 and is essential reading for students, solicitors and barristers alike.

This latest edition of Judge Keane's highly regarded text on Irish company law is substantially revised and updated to cover the Companies Act 2014, as amended up to October 2016, and also covers the many developments in the case-law since the fourth edition was published in 2006.

Hardly any aspect of company law is left untouched in some way by the 2014 Act. The Act not only repeals the prior Companies Acts and replaces them with a consolidated code, but also introduces many innovations designed to make companies more accessible to those doing business, and to streamline corporate compliance and procedures. The Act creates two new forms of private company: the private company limited by shares (LTD), which enjoys concessions not previously available to private companies, and the designated activity company (DAC) which more closely resembles to private company known under the former legislation. It also overhauls the requirements relating to other forms of company, namely PLCs, guarantee companies (CLGs) and unlimited companies, while also clarifying and extending the obligations of external companies which operate in Ireland. Among the key changes are the effective abolition of the ultra vires rule, which has applied to all companies up to now, and changes in the requirements relating to the constitutions of companies. The Act also changes the rules regarding company capital, and makes significant changes to the law concerning: the registration of company charges; the conduct of windings up; the passing of written resolutions; and the approval of certain transactions which previously were either prohibited or required Court approval, by a new Summary Approval Procedure involving a special resolution combined with an appropriate declaration by the directors, subject to safeguards to prevent improper use. The Act also codifies the previously common-law fiduciary duties of directors, and substantially modifies the regime regarding disclosure and approval of transactions involving directors. The Act also introduces new procedures whereby Irish companies can be merged or divided. Recent amendments to the Act have added further requirements regarding statutory audit and auditors; and impending changes (addressed in this edition) will alter the regime governing annual financial statements and impose filing requirements on unlimited companies.

Meanwhile the courts have been busy, particularly in the areas of restriction and disqualification of directors, and examinership, but also notably in the areas of company charges, reservation of title, financial assistance in the purchase of shares, to mention but a few.

All these changes to Irish company legislation are covered in this new edition which continues in the accessible and user-friendly but authoritative style for which previous editions have made the work a renowned standard.

Table Of Contents
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Companies and Other Forms of Business Organisations
Chapter 2 The Development of Company Law in Ireland
Chapter 3 Irish Company Law and European Union Law
Part II Formation of a Company
Chapter 4 How a Company is Formed
Chapter 5 The Constitution of the Private Company Limited by Shares
Chapter 6 The Constitutions of Companies other than LTDs
Chapter 7 The Promoters
Chapter 8 Flotation of a Company
Chapter 9 Application for and Allotment of Shares
Chapter 10 Commencement of Business
Part III Corporate Personality of the Company
Chapter 11 Separate Legal Personality of the Company
Chapter 12 Contracts
Chapter 13 Civil and Criminal Litigation
Part IV The Capital of the Company
Chapter 14 Types of Capital
Chapter 15 The Maintenance of Capital
Chapter 16 Alteration (Including Reduction) of Capital
Chapter 17 Shares
Chapter 18 Transfer and Transmission of Shares
Part V Borrowing by the Company
Chapter 19 Borrowing Powers of the Company and the Directors
Chapter 20 Debentures and Charges
Chapter 21 Registration of Charges
Chapter 22 Receivers
Part VI Membership of the Company
Chapter 23 Membership in general
Chapter 24 Disclosure of Interests in Shares and Debentures
Chapter 25 Meetings and Resolutions
Chapter 26 Majority and Minority Rights
Part VII Administration of the Company
Chapter 27 The Directors
Chapter 28 The Secretary
Chapter 29 The Annual Return and Striking Off of Companies
Chapter 30 Accounts and Audit
Chapter 31 Dividends and Distribution of Profits
Chapter 32 Reorganisations, Acquisitions, Mergers and Divisions
Chapter 33 Fraudulent and Reckless Trading
Chapter 34 Market Abuse: Insider Dealing and Market Manipulation
Chapter 35 Investigation of a Company's Affairs
Part VIII Winding up of Companies and Examinership
Chapter 36 Winding up by the Court
Chapter 37 Examinership
Chapter 38 Voluntary Winding up

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