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Company Law for Managers / Executives and Non-Legal Professionals

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.

Outline

1. Types of Business Organisations

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

2. Incorporation of Companies

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

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

4. Shares and Membership

• shareholders’ rights
• maintenance of capital

5. 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

6. Corporate & Personal Insolvency

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

7. 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.

Profile of Catherine Tay

Catherine Tay has over 35 years of lecturing experience as an Associate Professor lecturing business law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Strategy and Policy, NUS Business School. She is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. She is also a barrister-at-law (of Lincoln’s Inn, United Kingdom). She is an author of more than 8 law books, including her best-seller book title called "Contract Law - A layman Guide".

She studied law at Queen Mary College, University of London and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours and with a Master of Laws, in which she specialised in Company, Shipping, Insurance and Marine Insurance Laws.

She has facilitated seminars and in-house training courses for many business law topics such as tenancy agreements, contract administration management, procurement contracts, legal and practical aspects of tender management, Service Level Agreements and Outsourcing contracts, oil and gas contract management, insurance contracts, Intellectual Property Laws and PDPA data privacy laws. She is an examiner on law subjects for a number of professional bodies and universities in Singapore and overseas. She has lectured at the NUS Extension in professional and business management law courses.

She was an adjunct lecturer at NUS Institute of System Science, in IT outsourcing contracts for over 20 years. She is the Honourable Legal Advisor for Singapore Optometric Association, as well as for the Singapore Institute of Engineering Technologists.