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.
Ireland—Corporate analysis: This article, was written by A&L Goodbody LLP's Corporate & M&A Team. Under a statutory provision commenced on 16 July...
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Ireland—Enforcement of judgments in Ireland (domestic and cross-border considerations)This Practice Note sets out the most common methods and...
Forum shopping and practical ways to move COMIRationaleIn any cross-border case involving a formal insolvency procedure, the restructuring advisors...
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Ireland—Declaration of identity—owner of sharesThis Precedent is a declaration of identity where there is any uncertainty or confusion in relation to...
Ireland—Statutory auditors resignation letter—abnormal circumstances—s 400(3)(b)This Precedent sets out a form of resignation letter from the...
Ireland—Statutory auditors resignation letter—normal circumstances—s 400(3)(a)This Precedent sets out a form of resignation letter from the statutory...
This indemnity is designed to be given where any of a shareholder’s share certificates have been lost, stolen, mislaid or destroyed (or where a...
This indemnity is designed to be given upon the completion of a share purchase transaction where any of a selling shareholder’s share certificates...
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)What is a public company limited by shares?A public company limited by shares (PLC) is a legal entity which is...
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...
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 clauseCounterpartsA counterparts clause is a common boilerplate clause which provides that the parties to an agreement may...
Ireland—Company capital and its maintenanceA company’s capital means the sum of share capital and undenominated capital. A company’s share capital...
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)To: The Directors[insert company name][insert company address]Written resolutionsThis Precedent sets out a...
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 procedureRegistrationIn order for the summary approval procedure (SAP) to be valid, a copy of this...
Ireland—Section 110 companies—use and associated tax considerationsIreland’s Section 110 RegimeIreland has established itself as one of the most...
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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 assetsSection 238—backgroundThe Companies Act 2014 (Ireland) (CA 2014 (IRL)) contains...
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...
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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 procedureThese precedent minutes of a meeting of the directors of a private company limited by shares are to be...
When completing a proposal form for a protection product, the applicant has a duty to disclose all facts relevant to the application, particularly in relation to health. Failure to do so can allow the life company to refuse to admit a claim and cancel the policy from inception on the grounds of non-disclosure.
A joint venture is a commercial agreement in which the parties involved agree to form a new entity, sharing assets, equity and revenue. A joint venture can be for one specific project, period or a continuing business relationship.
According to the Interpretation Act 1978, the UK or United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.