Tuesday 28 October 2014

1 Day Seminar on Company Law for Business Managers

 
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Course Information
Date: 17 November 2014 (Mon)
Time: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue: Concorde Hotel Function Room (f.k.a Le Meridien Hotel)
Fees: SGD500 (NETT)
S$200 (After PIC Grant)
*Enjoy up to 400% tax deduction or 60% cash payout under the Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) scheme for Staff Training. Find out more at https://www.iras.gov.sg/ or email picredit@iras.gov.sg
Inclusive of teabreaks and lunch
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To register, please contact Ms Elsie Koh @ 9857 8570/ 62789785 or elsie@360degrees.com.sg
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1 Day Seminar on Company Law for Business Managers


Objective:

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.

Benefits:

Course material will be given and will serve as an invaluable reference. Participants will also benefit from the interactive session.

Course 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

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 company business law.

360 Degrees Trainer

Associate Professor Catherine Tay Swee Kian

Assoc Prof. Catherine Tay lectures law at National University of Singapore, NUS Business School in the Department of Strategy and Policy; and medical law and business law at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS; as well as dental law and ethics at the Faculty of Dentistry, NUS. A/Prof Tay is an Associate Professorial Fellow, NUS.

She is a Barrister-at-Law, of Lincoln's Inn, United Kingdom and an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore. She was called to the English Bar in 1978 and the Singapore Bar in 1980. She is an Associate Director, Bernard & Rada Law Corp.
She is an author of several law books including 'Contract Law'; 'Directors' Duties and Liabilities'; 'Business Law' ; E-Commerce Law; Intellectual Property Laws and 'Medical Negligence'. She has published several legal articles in prestigious international and local law journals.

A/Prof Tay studied law at Queen Mary College, University of London and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree and a Master of Laws degree, in which she specialized in Company, Shipping, Insurance and Marine Insurance laws. She did her pupillage under the Honorable Lady Mary Hogg in London and returned to Singapore in the law firm of Rodyk & Davidson.

A/Prof Tay is also a member of the Centralized Institutional Review Board – Ethics sub committee of SingHealth hospitals and polyclinics; and is also a member of the National Healthcare Group Domain Specific Review Board / Research Ethics committee tasked to review the scientific and ethical aspects of research protocols. A/Prof Tay is an examiner on law and medical law subjects for a number of professional bodies and universities in Singapore and overseas. She was an external examiner in medical law at the Law Faculty of the University of Hong Kong.

She conducts in-house training seminars and workshops for hospitals, banks, statutory boards, hotels, commercial firms and companies, clubs and associations. She is also a legal consultant appearing on many television segments.

A/Prof Tay was a committee member of the editorial board of the Singapore Accountant Journal, Journal of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore and the (United Kingdom) The Company Lawyer. She was on the Board of Overseas Editors for the (United Kingdom) Journal of Financial Crime, an official publication of the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. She has presented conference papers at many conferences and seminars on Business Law, Medical Law, and Company and insolvency Laws overseas and in Singapore.

A/Prof Tay has published numerous articles in international peer reviewed journals such as BIOETHICS, the Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine; the (United Kingdom) Journal of Business Law, (United Kingdom) Business Law Review; the (United Kingdom) Company Lawyer and the (United Kingdom) Insolvency Law & Practice, (United Kingdom) Tolley's professional negligence, (United Kingdom) Tottel's Professional Negligence, the Singapore Dental Journal; the Malayan Law Journal; the Securities Industry Review and The Singapore Law Gazette.

She received the 2008 Sinagapore Medical Journal Recognition Award for reviewing with Distinction for consistently submitting timely, detailed and scholarly reviews.

A/Prof Tay cohosted a weekly talk show "In the Eyes of the Law" on NTUC RadioHeart and was a consultant to MediaCorp television series on consumer laws "What's Your Case" on TV Channel 5.

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