Company Law

Company law is the back-bone of Chambers’ work. We cover all aspects of company law — from formation to dissolution, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, reductions and reorganisations of capital, Stock Exchange and other regulatory requirements, meetings, directors’ duties, shareholder rights and all other areas in which issues of company law arise. By specialising in this way, we have been able to build up a common fund of expertise in aspects of law and practice that the text books and reported cases often do not cover.

The Companies Act 2006 involves the most significant exercise of amending and consolidating company law for generations. It raises numerous new issues to vex company lawyers. As specialists in company law, members of Chambers are well placed to deal with these issues. In addition to our professional experience in practice, one member of Chambers advised the opposition front bench during the passage of the Companies Bill through the House of Lords and members of Chambers regularly lecture on the new Act.

We have also developed a particular expertise in insurance company law and have advised in relation to numerous life insurance company demutualisations and insurance company transfer schemes.

Many members of Chambers have collaborated with a number of academics, solicitors and accountants to produce OUP’s new Annotated Guide to the Companies Acts. This provides detailed and comprehensive commentary on the new legislation. Other members of Chambers include the author of ‘Table A Articles of Association’ (Sweet & Maxwell), and are also among the contributing editors of Tolley’s Company Law, Atkins Court Forms on Companies and the Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents on Companies.