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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
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 byA&L Goodbody LLP’s Corporate Team. The High Court restricted two directors for five years for...
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...
Law360, London Cordiant said 1 September 2025 that its telecommunications subsidiary Speed Fibre Group has completed its acquisition of BT...
Latest Ireland - Corporate Practice Notes
INSOL Europe: European Insolvency Regulation Case RegisterHow do I access it?Lexis+® UK R&I subscribers can access the case register using the How 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...
Artificial intelligence (AI) resource kitThis resource kit contains a list of the key practical guidance available across Lexis+® UK that deals with...
EU eIDAS Regulation-electronic signatures [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained.STOP PRESS: On 30 April 2024,...
Latest Ireland - Corporate Precedents
Physical data roomThis Precedent sets out rules to be used in a share or business sale when potential buyers and their advisers will be granted access...
This Precedent sets out rules to be used in a share or business sale when potential buyers and their advisers will be granted access to a virtual data...
Ireland—Statutory auditors resignation letter—abnormal circumstances—s 400(3)(b)This Precedent sets out a form of resignation letter from the...
Ireland—Board minutes—allotment of sharesCOMPANY NUMBER: [insert company number][insert company name] LIMITEDMinutes of a meeting of the board of...
Ireland—Board minutes—company name change—private company limited by sharesThis Precedent set of board minutes is to approve a change of name of a...
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
Direct Agreement
An agreement which is usually executed as a deed which is provided by the Construction Contractor, a construction sub-contractor or consultant (the promisor) as well as other parties in the PFI structure. The agreement provides a party (the beneficiary) who has an interest in the project but who is not a party to the original contract (for example the Authority or the Funder) with rights and remedies against the promisor if there is a problem with the services or works that have been provided by the promisor.
JET
The Joint European Torus fusion research project based at Culham and operated by United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on behalf of Euratom. The future of JET must be resolved as part of the Brexit negotiations between the UK and the EU.
Sham trust
What appears on the face of it to be a trust may be set aside as a sham if the truth of the matter is that the settlor retains full beneficial entitlement and there is no intention that the apparent beneficiaries are to obtain any benefit.
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