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.
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.
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.
Core content for practitioners dealing with public or private mergers and acquisitions, including practice notes and precedents.
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The Council of the EU has published an update on the European Parliament's first reading of amendments to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting...
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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—FDI controlA conversation with Cormac Little SC, partner and head of the Competition & Regulation Unit, at Irish law firm William Fry on key...
Ireland—Jurisdiction in civil litigationFor a checklist with guidance on how to determine whether an Irish court has jurisdiction to deal with the...
Ireland—Cross-border litigationThis Practice Note aims to provide an understanding of the practical issues to consider when dealing with cross-border...
Ireland—Resolutions—Authority to allot sharesOrdinary resolution—General authority—No distinction made between different classes of sharesTHAT[,...
Ireland—Ordinary resolution of a company to approve a payment to a director for loss of office in connection with a transfer of the undertaking or...
Ireland—Constitution—private company limited by sharesCompanies Act 2014Form of Constitution of Private Company Limited by Sharesof[Insert company...
Ireland—Legal due diligence further information request—private M&A—share purchaseDated [insert date]This form of request for further information...
Ireland—Heads of terms—private M&A—share purchase—cross-borderStrictly private and confidentialTo: [Insert seller name][Insert potential seller...
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—Resolutions—Authority to allot sharesOrdinary resolution—General authority—No distinction made between different classes of sharesTHAT[,...
Ireland—Ordinary resolution of a company to approve a payment to a director for loss of office in connection with a transfer of the undertaking or...
Ireland—Constitution—private company limited by sharesCompanies Act 2014Form of Constitution of Private Company Limited by Sharesof[Insert company...
Ireland—Legal due diligence further information request—private M&A—share purchaseDated [insert date]This form of request for further information...
Ireland—Heads of terms—private M&A—share purchase—cross-borderStrictly private and confidentialTo: [Insert seller name][Insert potential seller...
Ireland—Group definitionGroup•This Precedent is a definition for the term ‘group’, which is a term commonly used in agreements, to be included in the...
Ireland—Subsidiary definitionSubsidiary•This is a Precedent definitions for the term ‘subsidiary’, which is a term commonly used in agreements. It...
Ireland—Letter of representation of an authorised person to attend a general meeting of a private limited company on behalf of a body corporate...
Ireland—Removal of a director—ordinary resolution—private company limited by sharesThis Precedent sets out standard wording for an ordinary resolution...
Ireland—Resolution—appointment of director—private company limited by sharesThis is a precedent ordinary resolution to appoint a director of a private...
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—Execution clause—partnership—contractThis Precedent execution clause is for use by a partner on behalf of the partnership when entering into a...
Ireland—Contract cover sheetThis Precedent is a template contract cover sheet to accompany a contract. It is not a legally binding contract document...
Ireland—Execution clause—limited partnership—contractIreland—Execution clause—limited partnership—contract—Drafting NotesThese precedent execution...
Ireland—Execution clause—limited partnership—deedExecution clause—limited partnership (Ireland)—Deed (drafting notes)These precedent execution clauses...
Ireland—FDI controlA conversation with Cormac Little SC, partner and head of the Competition & Regulation Unit, at Irish law firm William Fry on...
A court nominated to take evidence pursuant to a request by a foreign court.
Pension rights in a contracted-out salary-related (COSR) scheme accrued by members who were in contracted-out employment between 6 April 1997 and 5 April 2016, in compliance with the reference scheme test mentioned in the Pension Schemes Act 1993, s 9(2B). Section 9(2B) rights replaced guaranteed minimum pensions on 6 April 1997. Also known as: Post-1997 contracted-out salary-related rights or Post-1997 COSR rights.
Standard orders are template court orders issued by the President of the Family Division, the use of which has been strongly encouraged. The rationale behind the project is to avoid time and money that is wasted in the process of drafting orders that could, and therefore should, be standardised.