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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—Banking & Financial Service analysis: This article, was written by Vincent Power, Alan McCarthy, Anna-Marie Curran and Micaela Diver of A&L...
European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) has published a paper detailing the synergies between the voluntary Eco-Management and Audit...
ISS Governance has published its 2025 Proxy Voting Guidelines for the UK and Ireland, which will apply to shareholder meetings held on or after 1...
On 22 November 2024, the last scheduled day of the 29th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29)...
On 21 November 2024, the eleventh day of the 29th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29)...
Latest Ireland - Corporate Practice Notes
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...
Ireland—Defining termsThis Practice Note discusses the role and importance of defined terms in an agreement. It identifies the defined terms that most...
Ireland—Restrictions on loans, quasi-loans, credit transactions, guarantees to directors, connected persons and related arrangementsThe Companies Act...
Ireland—Execution formalities—partnershipsThis Practice Note provides practical guidance on proper execution of simple contracts and deeds for general...
Latest Ireland - Corporate Precedents
Ireland—Counterparts clauseCounterpartsA counterparts clause is a common boilerplate clause which provides that the parties to an agreement may...
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—Contract cover sheetThis Precedent is a template contract cover sheet to accompany a contract. It is not a legally binding contract document...
Ireland—Heads of terms—private M&A—share purchase—cross-borderStrictly private and confidentialTo: [Insert seller name][Insert potential seller...
Ireland—Heads of terms—private M&A—share purchaseStrictly private and confidentialTo: [Insert potential seller name][Insert potential seller...
Featured Ireland - Corporate content
EU phase I mergers—closed cases tracker
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 tracker
EU mergers—ongoing cases trackerThe below tracks live European Commission merger investigations.For information on completed investigations see EU...
Ireland—Counterparts clause
Ireland—Counterparts clauseCounterpartsA counterparts clause is a common boilerplate clause which provides that the parties to an agreement may...
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—Defining terms
Ireland—Defining termsThis Practice Note discusses the role and importance of defined terms in an agreement. It identifies the defined terms that most...
Ireland—Restrictions on loans, quasi-loans, credit transactions, guarantees to directors, connected persons and related arrangements
Ireland—Restrictions on loans, quasi-loans, credit transactions, guarantees to directors, connected persons and related arrangementsThe Companies Act...
Ireland—Execution formalities—partnerships
Ireland—Execution formalities—partnershipsThis Practice Note provides practical guidance on proper execution of simple contracts and deeds for general...
Ireland—Corporate horizon scanner 2024 [Archived]
Ireland—Corporate horizon scanner 2024 [Archived]ARCHIVED: This archived corporate horizon scanner tracks the progress of Irish legislation (including...
Rome II—the general rule and its displacement
Rome II—the general rule and its displacementThis Practice Note is for use when determining applicable law in respect of events giving rise to damage,...
Ireland—Company names and business names—private company limited by shares
Ireland—Company names and business names—private company limited by sharesCompany names and business (or trading) names are respectively regulated by...
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...
EU eIDAS Regulation-electronic signatures [Archived]
EU eIDAS Regulation-electronic signatures [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained.STOP PRESS: On 30 April 2024,...
Market Intelligence—Restructuring and insolvency
Market Intelligence—Restructuring and insolvencyJurisdictions coveredThe following jurisdictions are covered in this report:Austria; Brazil; France;...
List of available cross-border insolvency and restructuring tools by country worldwide
List of available cross-border insolvency and restructuring tools by country worldwideCross-border toolsThe EU Recast Regulation on Insolvency by its...
Table of advantages and disadvantages of restructuring in various jurisdictions worldwide
Table of advantages and disadvantages of restructuring in various jurisdictions worldwideRationaleIn any cross-border case involving a formal...
Rome II—scope, exclusions and general provisions
Rome II—scope, exclusions and general provisionsThis Practice Note is for use when determining applicable law in respect of events giving rise to...
Recast Regulation on Insolvency (Member State to Member State)—establishing the centre of main interests (COMI) for corporates
Recast Regulation on Insolvency (Member State to Member State)—establishing the centre of main interests (COMI) for corporatesUK statusSince 31...
Ireland—General meetings—notice requirements for private limited companies
Ireland—General meetings—notice requirements for private limited companiesA general meeting must satisfy certain requirements set out in the Companies...
Associated legal terms
Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)
[means the natural and anthropogenic gases which trap thermal radiation in the earth’s atmosphere and are specified in Annex A to the protocol'>Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) [or otherwise specified by the UNFCCC at the date of this agreement], as may be amended from time to time, which include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), and nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), each expressed as a total in units of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO2e). OR means natural and anthropogenic gases that contribute to or accelerate the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation, including but not limited to: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, chlorofluorocarbons and nitrogen trifluoride.]
New Consumer Agenda
On 13 November 2020, the European Commission launched the New Consumer Agenda (see the New Consumer Agenda Communication), following the 2012 Consumer Agenda which expired in 2020 and the 2018 New Deal for Consumers. The New Consumer Agenda aims to strengthen consumer resilience for sustainable recovery. The New Consumer Agenda sets out a long-term vision and introduces five key priorities areas and action points to be taken from 2020 to 2025: • green transition—creating a legal proposal aiming to provide better information on sustainability to consumers • digital transformation—adapting existing legislation to the digital transformation • redress and enforcement of consumer rights: strengthening the Consumer protection network and developing toolbox of e-tools to tackle illegal online market practices and identify unsafe products • specific needs of consumer groups: ensuring the protection of vulnerable consumers • international cooperation—developing an action plan on product safety with China
Restrictive Covenant
A covenant requiring the covenantor not to do the thing specified. The burden of a restrictive covenant binds successors in title where there is land benefiting from the covenant, the burden of the covenant was intended to run, and the successor to the covenantor has notice of the covenant.
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