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—Commercial & Corporate analysis: This article, written by A&L Goodbody’s EU, Competition & Procurement Team, notes that in a line of recent...
Law360: Ireland's corporate tax receipts in the near term may see a boost after a pharmaceutical group front-loaded exports to the US ahead of...
Ireland—Corporate analysis: This article, was written by A&L Goodbody LLP’s Disputes Team. On 24 July 2025, in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its 2025 European Common Enforcement Priorities (ECEP) statement and the results of...
Ireland-Corporate analysis: This article, was written by A&L Goodbody LLP’s Corporate & M&A Team. In exceptional cases a non-party can be held...
Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements—scopeThis Practice Note considers the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements which applies to...
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...
INSOL Europe/Lexis+® UK Joint Project on EU Harmonisation Directive 2019/1023: consolidated tableLexis+® UK are working with INSOL Europe on a joint...
List of available cross-border insolvency and restructuring tools by country worldwideCross-border toolsThe EU Recast Regulation on Insolvency by its...
Ireland—Confidentiality letter—private M&A—share purchase—long form—individual sellersStrictly private and confidentialTo: [insert buyer name][insert...
This confidentiality agreement is for use at the outset of an asset purchase transaction proceeding by way of auction sale, when the bidder is...
This confidentiality agreement is for use at the outset of a share purchase transaction when the buyer is conducting due diligence on the target’s...
This Precedent confidentiality letter or non-disclosure agreement (NDA) assumes that there will be a one-way flow of confidential information (and...
This Precedent confidentiality letter or non-disclosure agreement (NDA) assumes that there will be a one-way flow of confidential information (and...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
The analysis of initiating events and their consequences. An event tree starts with an initiating event and develops sequences, based on whether a plant system succeeds or fails in performing its function, and the response of related systems. An event tree provides a graphical and probabilistic representation of the various possible sequences, and hence can be used to determine the probability of negative outcomes from a particular initiating event.
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A general partnership which is constituted under the law of Scotland, for any period in which it is a qualifying partnership under regulation 3 of the Partnership (Accounts) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/569) (Scottish qualifying partnership). A Scottish qualifying partnership is a partnership whose members are all limited companies (or unlimited companies whose own members are all limited companies).