About this Course

Protect yourself and get a thorough understanding of the laws and regulations governing companies and your business. Practical guidance on corporate laws will be given. Case studies and case presentations will be discussed. You will learn how to conduct your businesses effectively within the laws of business and companies.

Course Outline:

Types of Business Organisations

• companies
  
• sole trader
  
• partnerships
  
• separate corporate personality : Salomom v Salomon (1897)
  
• limited liability
  

Incorporation of Companies

• promoters and pre-incorporation contracts
  
• memorandum and articles of association
  
• object clauses
  
• advantages of formation of companies
  

Division of powers between board of directors and shareholders at general meeting

Shares and Membership

• shareholders’ rights
  
• maintenance of capital
  

Management and Administration

• annual general meetings
  
• extraordinary general meetings
  
• directors’ duties & liabilities
  
• duties of care & skill
  
• insider trading of shares
  
• enforcement of corporate rights
  
• majority rule & minority shareholder protection
  
• company administration & company secretaries
  
• company registers
  
• annual returns & financial accounts
  

Corporate & Personal Insolvency

• winding up / liquidation of companies
  
• judicial management
  
• receivership of companies
  
• scheme of arrangement & compromise
  
• debt recovery procedures
  

How to Resolve Your Company/Business Disputes

• Singapore Legal System
  
• the courts
  
• mediation and arbitration
  
• negotiations/consultations/mini-trials
  

Who Should Attend? 

This course does not require you to have legal knowledge. It is for company directors, business managers, financial controllers, marketing managers & executives, business advisers, bankers, consultants, company secretaries, administrators, credit executives, finance, operation executives and ANYONE who wants to know business law.

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