Shares and shareholders
Raising money for a company by issuing shares can open up a lot of opportunities. However, not all expanding companies will want to allot further shares, and often businesses can meet their objectives in other ways or raise…
How to process calls on partly paid shares
When unpaid or partly paid shares are issued, the company retains the right to collect the unpaid amount. To do so, the directors can send a call notice to holders of partly paid shares requiring them to pay the unpaid amount to…
How to handle pension scheme share ownership
The trustees of pension schemes will often directly own a company’s shares as part of the overall investment portfolio they hold for the pension scheme. Accordingly this ownership needs to be reflected in the company’s share…
How to fill in form J10 to transfer unpaid shares
When we looked at unpaid and partly paid shares and why a company might have them, we said that they could be transferred in a similar way to fully paid shares so the general process of how to transfer shares applies equally to…
What are shareholder pre-emption rights?
Shareholders in a company will often benefit from ‘pre-emption rights’. These give existing shareholders first refusal when a company is issuing new shares. If pre-emption rights exist, new shares in a company cannot be…
How to transfer shares the easy way
In other articles we’ve looked in depth at the procedure for transferring shares, including how to complete a stock transfer form and what a company needs to do to process share transfers effectively.…
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