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: 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...
The chairs of eight European national corporate governance code institutions met on 15 May 2025 to issue a joint statement reaffirming core governance...
Law360, London: An Illinois state appellate panel said 21 May 2025 that a trial court properly dismissed a shareholder class action against...
Latest Ireland - Corporate Practice Notes
EU mergers—ongoing cases trackerThe below tracks live European Commission merger investigations.For information on completed investigations see EU...
EU phase I mergers—closed cases trackerThe table lists completed European Commission phase I merger investigations since 13 June 2013.For information...
Ireland—Class rights—fundamentalsA company with a share capital may have different classes of shares, which may confer different rights on the holders...
Ireland merger controlA conversation with Cormac Little SC, partner and head of the Competition & Regulation Unit at Dublin-headquartered law firm...
EU mergers enforcement actions—closed cases trackerThis summarises completed EU merger enforcement actions since 2014.For information on ongoing EU...
Latest Ireland - Corporate Precedents
Ireland—Board minutes—allotment of sharesCOMPANY NUMBER: [insert company number][insert company name] LIMITEDMinutes of a meeting of the board of...
Ireland—Holding company definitionHolding Company•This Precedent contains a definition for the term ‘holding company’, which is a term commonly used...
Ireland—Legal due diligence further information request—private M&A—share purchaseDated [insert date]This form of request for further information...
Ireland—Legal due diligence further information request—private M&A—asset purchaseDated [insert date]This form of request for further information...
Ireland—Group company definitionThis Precedent is a definition for the term ‘group company’, which is a term commonly used in agreements, to be...
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
Class A / Class B appropriate persons
The person responsible for the remediation of contaminated land following the “polluter pays” principle under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
De jure director
A director registered as a director at companies house (see Director).
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
Originally, and often still colloquially, known as the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. The ‘collective voice of the Muslim world’ and the second largest global inter-governmental organisation after the United Nations with a membership of 57 states spread over four continents. The OIC spawned the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and endeavours to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among its various peoples.
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