Course description
This virtual classroom seminar will provide a detailed insight into the key provisions of the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024, particularly with regard to company law reform in four broad areas: corporate governance, company law enforcement and supervision, company law administration and corporate insolvency.
John Darby will discuss the appointment of proxies at Annual General Meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings, the proposed new investigatory powers for the Corporate Enforcement Authority, multi-company mergers by absorption in one transaction, plus much more.
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Introduction
This virtual classroom seminar will provide a detailed insight into the key provisions of the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024 (the ‘Act’), particularly with regard to company law reform in four broad areas: corporate governance, company law enforcement and supervision, company law administration and corporate insolvency.
What You Will Learn
This live session will cover the proposed changes, in regard to the following:
- Hybrid and virtual Annual General Meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings
- The execution of documents under the company seal in counterpart
- The appointment of proxies at Annual General Meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings
- Designated Activity Companies engaging in domestic mergers
- Multi-company mergers by absorption in one transaction
- The proposed new investigatory powers for the Corporate Enforcement Authority
- The proposed new grounds for the involuntary strike off of companies
- The loss of the small company audit exemption upon failing to file the company’s annual return
- Verification of a company’s registered address
- The proposed voluntary disclosure of statistics on gender balance in respect of companies’ boards of directors
- Uncertificated shares
- Corporate insolvency
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