About Ireland - Corporate
Today, you’re advising an entrepreneur on a new start up. Tomorrow, you might be facilitating a fundraising on the financial markets. Whatever the challenge, Lexis+ Ireland - Corporate is the place to start.
Our resources cover Limited Liability
Company obligations and directors under Companies Acts, offering guidance for compliance, EU regulations, and execution methods with practical tools.
Company incorporation and constitution
Practice notes and precedents covering key aspects of setting up a private company limited by shares, including guidance on company and business names, trading disclosures and registered office.
Share capital
Guidance on the allotment and issue of shares, the maintenance of a company’s share capital and the rights that attach to different classes of shares.
Company directors
A range of precedents to assist practitioners on issues ranging from declarations of interests in a transaction and resolving directors’ conflicts through to removal of a director and written resolutions of directors.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Core content for practitioners dealing with public or private mergers and acquisitions, including practice notes and precedents.
Topics We Cover
Latest Ireland - Corporate News
Law360, London: Primary Health Properties said that its planned £1.79bn takeover of rival NHS landlord Assura PLC has gained foreign direct investment...
Law360, London: Irish hotel group Dalata said 15 July 2025 that it has backed an increased €1.4bn cash offer from a Scandinavian consortium of...
Law360, London: Three Irish subsidiaries cannot benefit from the US-Ireland tax treaty's provision of equally favorable treatment between US and Irish...
Law360, London: Grafton Group plc, a building materials and construction products business, said 3 June 2025 that it has completed its acquisition of...
Law360, London: Dalata Hotel Group said late 3 June 2025 it has spurned a consortium's attempted application to buy the Irish hospitality giant in a...
Latest Ireland - Corporate Practice Notes
EU phase I mergers—closed cases trackerThe table lists completed European Commission phase I merger investigations since 13 June 2013.For information...
EU mergers—ongoing cases trackerThe below tracks live European Commission merger investigations.For information on completed investigations see EU...
Ireland—Small companies administrative rescue process (SCARP)What is the small company administrative rescue process?The Small Company Administrative...
Ireland—Directors’ duties: companies in financial difficultiesGeneral fiduciary duties of directors under the Companies Act 2014The principal...
Ireland—Key environmental issues on corporate transactionsLegal advice in relation to environmental issues, where it is given on a corporate...
Latest Ireland - Corporate Precedents
Ireland—Ordinary resolution of a company approving a payment to a director for loss of office This Precedent sets out alternative forms of a...
Ireland—Directors’ service contracts—resolution of a holding company approving a long-term service contractThis Precedent sets out the form resolution...
Ireland—Resolution—approving a payment to a director in connection with a share transferThis Precedent sets out alternative forms of resolution to be...
Ireland—Directors’ service contracts—resolution approving a long-term service contractThis Precedent sets out the form resolution that may need to be...
Ireland—Declaration of a director’s interests in a proposed transaction or arrangement—general noticeThe directors[Insert name of company]...
Featured Ireland - Corporate content
Ireland—Designated activity company (DAC)
Ireland—Designated activity company (DAC)What is a designated activity company?A designated activity company (DAC) is provided for by Part 16 of the...
Ireland—Public limited company (PLC)
Ireland—Public limited company (PLC)What is a public company limited by shares?A public company limited by shares (PLC) is a legal entity which is...
Ireland—Governing law clause
This Precedent is a governing law clause, sometimes known as an applicable law clause or a choice of law clause. The governing law clause is...
Ireland—Written resolutions (sole director)
This precedent provides a simple template for the sole director of a private company limited by shares to pass one or more written resolutions.The...
Ireland—Counterparts clause
Ireland—Counterparts clauseCounterpartsA counterparts clause is a common boilerplate clause which provides that the parties to an agreement may...
Ireland—Company capital and its maintenance
Ireland—Company capital and its maintenanceA company’s capital means the sum of share capital and undenominated capital. A company’s share capital...
Ireland—Letter—resignation from directorship—private company limited by shares
This Precedent is a sample resignation letter for a director resigning from a private company limited by shares, registered in Ireland.The...
Ireland—Written resolutions (directors)
Ireland—Written resolutions (directors)To: The Directors[insert company name][insert company address]Written resolutionsThis Precedent sets out a...
Ireland—Letter to act as a director
Ireland—Letter to act as a directorIreland—Letter—consent to act as a directorThis is a precedent consent to act as a director letter from an...
Ireland—Directors’ declaration—summary approval procedure
Ireland—Directors’ declaration—summary approval procedureRegistrationIn order for the summary approval procedure (SAP) to be valid, a copy of this...
Ireland—Section 110 companies—use and associated tax considerations
Ireland—Section 110 companies—use and associated tax considerationsIreland’s Section 110 RegimeIreland has established itself as one of the most...
Ireland—Domino’s pizza to buy Irish franchisee in €92m deal
The UK arm of Domino's said that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire the remaining 85% that it does now own in Shorecal Ltd, the largest...
Ireland—Resolution to approve substantial property transaction
Ireland—Resolution to approve substantial property transactionThis Precedent contains two alternative resolutions that may be used by a company to...
Ireland—Substantial transactions in respect of non-cash assets
Ireland—Substantial transactions in respect of non-cash assetsSection 238—backgroundThe Companies Act 2014 (Ireland) (CA 2014 (IRL)) contains...
Ireland—Form of proxy for a general meeting of a private limited company
Ireland—Form of proxy for a general meeting of a private limited companyThis Precedent sets out standard wording for a form of proxy for a general...
Corlytics acquires Deloitte UK RegTech platform
As part of the acquisition, Deloitte UK partner and head of RegTech Kent Mackenzie is joining Corlytics as its chief operating officer.'The Corlytics...
Ireland—Resolution—appointment of director—private company limited by shares
Ireland—Resolution—appointment of director—private company limited by sharesThis is a precedent ordinary resolution to appoint a director of a private...
Ireland—Board minutes—summary approval procedure
Ireland—Board minutes—summary approval procedureThese precedent minutes of a meeting of the directors of a private company limited by shares are to be...
Associated legal terms
Preservation
A law which states that you do not forfeit your pension rights just because you leave the employer sometime before retirement.
Qualifying corporate bond
For the purposes of corporation tax, 'qualifying corporate bond' means any asset representing a loan relationship of a company (for purposes other than those of corporation tax references to a qualifying corporate bond is to be construed in accordance with the provisions of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (TCGA 1992), ss 117, 117(1).
Zombie companies
A company which continues to operate but which is destined to fail eventually, as it's no longer financially viable.
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