Course Details

Accountants are often requested to incorporate a multi member company or a two-person company. Apart from getting the company formation documentation prepared correctly, it is so important to remind the shareholders that they should regulate their relationship in a formal shareholders’ agreement. Shareholders particularly those setting up a new business may see the professional cost and tension involved in preparing a shareholders’ agreement an unnecessary cost. The purpose of attending is to reaffirm for the accounting profession the importance of encouraging the founding shareholders to regulate their relationship through a shareholder’s agreement. Accountants may also be asked to value a company or the shareholding in a company. The existence of a shareholder’s agreement will be very relevant to the accountant’s role in valuing the company or the shareholding in a company.

 

Sean Nolan covers the following topics during this session:

  • the benefits of entering into a shareholder’s agreement
  • the essential issues to be addressed in a shareholder’s agreement
  • the legal position of the shareholders if a shareholder’s agreement is not entered into
  • recent case law concerning shareholders disputes and remedies
  • share valuations

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Clark Hill Solicitors

Sean Nolan

Sean Nolan is a partner in Clark Hill Solicitors LLP, where he practices commercial law, M&A, inward investment, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements and IP. He is qualified as a solicitor in both Ireland and England, having attended University College London (LL.B.) and London Metropolitan University (MA Business Law). He is co-author of Buying and Selling a Business – Tax and Legal Issues published by the Irish Institute of Taxation and M&A – Protecting the Purchaser, published by Kluwer Law International and is an author of Business Law published by Oxford University Press and the Law Society of Ireland. He is a member of the Business Law Committee of the Law Society of Ireland and has published various articles on business law subjects in professional journals. He has also lectured at the Law Society on company law.