STEP Advanced Certificate in Company Law and Practice

Description

Develop and enhance your understanding of how companies are used as offshore asset-holding vehicles. This Advanced Certificate can be taken as part of the STEP Diploma.

This course provides practitioners with the technical knowledge and understanding of how companies are used as offshore asset-holding vehicles.

• Gain in-depth expertise: Improve your technical knowledge of the practices and procedures involved in incorporating and managing a private asset-holding company, and the relevant company law rules that regulate a company and its affairs.
• Practical focus: Practical advice and guidance written by practitioners, for practitioners on everyday matters encountered in private company management from incorporation, modern usage and administration of companies and the provision of corporate services.
• Build valuable connections: Network with like-minded professionals in varied roles and firms from all over the world.
• Industry recognition: Recognised worldwide as the ‘gold-standard’ benchmark qualification for those working in the international trusts industry by employers, regulators, clients, and professionals, and is awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School, a School of the University of Manchester.

What you will learn

• The relevant company law provisions and legal framework within which companies exist
• The features, characteristics and uses of private asset-holding companies incorporated offshore
• The theoretical and practical aspects of incorporation of a private limited company
• The requirements for registration and migration of foreign companies
• The function, typical content and alteration of the company’s constitutional documents
• The funding and capital structure of a company and capital maintenance/distribution provisions
• The role, appointment, duties and removal of directors and other officers
• The company decision-making procedures, meetings and powers of shareholders and directors
• The provision of company management services and beneficial owner control
• The termination of companies