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 legally binding shareholders agreement and contracts of employment if applicable. Shareholders particularly those setting up a new business may see the professional cost and tension involved in preparing a shareholders’ agreement and unnecessary cost. The cost is minimal compared to litigating without one. The benefit of attending the seminar is to reaffirm for the accounting profession the reasons why the founding shareholders should regulate their relationship through a shareholders’ agreement.


Accountants may also be asked to value a company or the shareholding of a particular shareholder in a company. The existence of a shareholders’agreement may be very relevant to the accountant's role in valuing the company or the shareholding of a particular shareholder in the company.


Sean Nolan covers the following topics during this course:

  • The benefits of a SA
  • The essential issues to be addressed in a SA
  • The legal position if a SA is not entered into
  • Recent case law concerning shareholders disputes
  • 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.