Company Law Handbook

Q & A with Dr Saleem Sheikh

Dr Saleem Sheikh is the author of Company Law Handbook. This is included in our Company and Commercial Law service.

20 May 2024

TAX

M Group Holdings Ltd – the Upper Tribunal judgement

24 Oct 2023

How BTI v Sequana modified the landscape of the Directors’ duties

Balancing Shareholders’ and creditors’ competing interests

The decision by the UK Supreme Court in BTI v Sequana [2022] UKSC 25 is a landmark judgment in setting out the circumstances when directors must have regard to shareholders’ and creditors’ interests,…

05 Dec 2022

Company Law

What happens on the death of a shareholder?

According to the office of national statistics, sole proprietor businesses and partnerships are decreasing and the use of private limited companies is increasing. 72.5% of total UK businesses are eith…

27 Sept 2022

Company Law

Right to Manage companies: Which Articles of Association do you use?

Right to Manage (RTM) companies are private companies limited by guarantee, which enables a group of leaseholders, typically in blocks of flats, to take over the management of their building irrespect…

27 Sept 2022

Company Law

How do the courts interpret the articles of association?

A common problem with the articles of association is the addition of poorly drafted precedents with unambiguous terms. The court is often asked to make judgments on such provisions and to interpret…

27 Sept 2022

Company Law

An exclusive Q&A with Dr Saleem Sheikh

When I was studying for the LLM at LSE under the late Lord Wedderburn of Charlton (a leading company law expert) and followed up with a PhD in company law at LSE – I enjoyed looking at the company as…

27 Sept 2022