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International Business Organisations
This Diploma teaches the fundamentals and structure of International Business Organisations by reference to the law and practice of England and Wales with comparisons and references to differing approaches taken by other jurisdictions including the law and practice of the USA.
Introduction
• Types of business media
• Choice of business medium
• Financing a business and business names
Partnership
• The nature of partnership
• The partnership agreement
• The partnership's liability to third parties
• Retirement and dissolution
Company Formation
• Limited liability
• Types of company
• Setting up a company and company officers
• The company's constitution
• The ultra vires doctrine and its reform and pre-incorporation contracts
Company Procedure
• Board meetings
• Shareholders’ meetings
• Resolutions, notices and the elective regime
Shareholders
• Shareholders’ rights
• Classes of share
• Class rights and variation
• Minority protection
Directors
• Types of director
• Appointment and removal
• Directors' powers and duties
• Disclosure of interests, loans and substantial property transactions
• Directors' service agreements
Share Capital
• Types of share capital
• Types of shares
• Issue of shares
• Authority to allot
• Statutory pre-emption rights and disapplication
• Transfer of shares
Maintenance of Share Capital and Financial Assistance
• Reduction of share capital
• Purchase of own shares
• The prohibition, definition, exceptions and the 'whitewash procedure'
Debt Finance and Security
• Types of debt finance
• Forms of security
• Fixed and floating charges
• Priority
Insolvency
• Receivership
• Administrative receivership
• Administration
• Liquidation
• Challenging prior transactions
• Priorities
Groups of Companies
• Advantages and disadvantages of groups of companies
• Definition of a group
• Group obligations and indebtedness |
'The International Business
Organisations Programme
was very enlightening. It gave
good introductory
understanding of business
in other jurisdictions.'
Mr Obi-Farinde Morenike
Nigeria, Business
Organisations Diploma
'Taking the International
practice diploma was of
great benefit to me,
enabling me to enhance my
knowledge and experience
in the field of international
business organisation practice.
The most useful part of this
programme was the focus on
practice rather than the
academic aspects, therefore
it very useful to me as
a practicing lawyer.”
Gamal Tawfig M .Taha
Elkarib & Medani, Sudan,
Business Organisations
Diploma
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