The following Corporate practice note provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on A company’s constitution
A shareholder who owned a 50% share of the company entered into an option agreement (not as a deed) with a third party on behalf of the company. He was not a director. Is...
Are mixed signings permissible? For example where one party to a deed signs a counterpart in wet ink and another signs a counterpart with an electronic signature; where...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Are there any circumstances in which parties would not use ‘and delivered’ when...
Are there any restrictions on a UK company appointing an individual as an overseas attorney (for example, a senior manager) to sign a contract under the laws of England &...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Are there any restrictions on who can sign a statutory declaration on behalf of a...
As an alternative to executing a deed of variation, is it possible for all original parties to execute a new deed (with all the amendments included) and have a provision...
The following Commercial precedent provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Board minutes approving a proposed commercial agreement...
The following Corporate precedent provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Briefing for directors—general duties under the Companies Act 2006...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a corporate secretary execute a deed on behalf of a company on its own where...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a deed by a company be executed in counterpart in order to comply with section...
Can a director give authority to another individual to affix the director’s electronic signature (ie pasting an image of the signature of the director) into an electronic...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a document executed and described as a deed be subsequently validly varied by...
Can a Head of Finance of one company in a group of companies sign the contractual documents of another company in the same group? What formalities are required for any...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a manager who is not a director sign a simple contract on behalf of a company?...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a party to a deed take the benefit of it without executing it?...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a poor-quality signed copy document be re-executed by the parties and...
The following Corporate Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a share certificate be executed by electronic means?
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a signed scanned version of a contract or deed be relied upon as opposed to...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a solicitor execute a contract on behalf of a client?
Can a solicitor witness their clients' signature on a statutory declaration? Can a solicitor witness their clients' signature on a change of name deed/document which the...
Can a third party rely on ostensible/apparent authority where they know the person signing a document is an employee of a company not a director and they sign as a...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can a trainee solicitor certify a document for a friend? If so, how?...
The following Corporate Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can an alternate director sign a deed on behalf of a company?
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can an authorised signatory execute a deed on behalf of a director of a company or...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can an English solicitor legalise a notarial deed of transfer governed by Dutch...
Can an execution block be amended after execution and delivery of a deed? For example, where a document was executed as a deed by a company purporting to act by a...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can an individual based overseas execute an English law power of attorney as a...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can an invalid statutory declaration be binding as a simple contract?...
The following Commercial Q&A provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Can an overseas company sign an English law contract on behalf of its UK branch?...
