Shares, Share Capital & Dividends in Ireland - All You Need to Know

Introduction

This course will consider the law governing shares, share capital and dividends under the Irish Companies Act 2014.

If you are looking to understand the legal nature of shares and be able to advise your clients on share capital and dividends, then this course is for you.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• Consideration for shares on allotment
• Share classes and class rights
• Conversion of shares
• Share capital and company capital
• Final and interim dividends
• The right to be paid dividends
• Forfeiture of unclaimed dividends
• The rights to dividends on the commencement of a winding up
• The meaning of 'profits available for distribution'
• When are profits available for distribution?
• Disguised distributions in reorganisations and winding up
• The prohibition on pre-acquisition profits being used for distributions
• Liability of directors for unlawful distributions
• Liability for members for unlawful distributions

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.