Companies

Below are some guides to some basic issues in company law as well as contact details.

OUT-LAW Guides (UK law)

• Companies: The basics (menu of articles)
• Directors' duties (menu of articles)
• Corporate governance (menu of articles) 
• Insolvency and financial difficulty (menu of articles)
• The FSA in action (menu of articles) 
• Funding an internet business (Checklist)
  The issues to be addressed when considering possible forms of funding for a new internet business.
• Share schemes: an introduction
  Planning ahead is key to enjoying all the benefits that can accrue to a company from incentivising the workforce and avoiding deal-impeding exit complications.

See also:

• Legal info about Competition.
• Directors' service contracts in Legal info about Employment
• Directors' pensions in Legal info about Employment
• Directors' remuneration issues in Legal info about Employment 

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Added-value services

There are more than 80 corporate lawyers in Pinsent Masons. We can advise on mergers, acquisitions, disposals, flotations, takeovers, buy-ins and buyouts, joint ventures and investments. Get in touch with Yvonne Dunn (Glasgow, 0141 248 4858) or Susan Biddle (London, 020 7490 4000).

Useful links

• British Venture Capital Association