1. Pre-incorporation -- 2. Corporate Personality -- 3. Formation and registration of a company -- 4. The company's constitution and corporate capacity -- 5. Company and business names -- 6. Company re-registration -- 7. Corporate governance and the code -- 8. Directors: types, appointment and removal -- 9. Directors' duties -- 10. Directors' specific duties -- 11. Directors' remuneration -- 12. Directors' disqualification -- 13. Derivative claims -- 14. Unfair prejudicial conduct -- 15. Company secretaries -- 16. Resolutions and meetings -- 17. Auditors -- 18. Company share capital -- 19. Acquisition by limited company of its own shares -- 20. Company charges -- 21. Certification, transfer of securities and people with significant control -- 22. Information about interests in a company's shares -- 23. Dissolution and restoration to the register -- 24. Registrar of companies -- 25. Company investigations

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"Charts the company life-cycle from pre-incorporation, through incorporation and culminates with the winding up process, addressing, in detail, the essential requirements in establishing a company, including the steps, procedures and documents that are required during the existence of the corporation. The handbook highlights significant cases and principal judgments that impact on UK company law. Checklists guide you through legislative provisions and their application to the day-to-day running of a business throughout its life-cycle, and key definitions at the end of each chapter make it accessible by simplifying the legal concepts involved."-- Provided by publisher.

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