Description

Baffled by joint venture and shareholder agreements?

Guidance on the new PSC Register is just one of the things that small businesses need to understand.

Helping you to identify the central issues involved in joint venture transactions, take effective instructions and draft good documentation using precedents, case studies and checklists.

Now covers:
Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (including the official guidance on new register of Persons of Significant Control (PSC Register)
Latest tax rates and changes (including corporation and capital gains tax 2017/18 and entrepreneurs' relief)
EU merger law changes (including the mergers simplification package and UK merger law changes)

Key content includes:

Preliminary considerations
A discussion of the nature of joint ventures and shareholders' agreements
Financing the venture
Tax and accounting considerations for UK corporate joint ventures
Regulatory matters
Employment and pension issues

Key issues in structuring and drafting UK corporate joint venture documentation and shareholders' agreements
Deadlock and minority protection
Voting rights and board representation
Restrictive covenants

Joint ventures and shareholders' agreements in practice
Articles of association
Transfers of assets
EU and UK Competition law including Brexit issues