The Hong Kong Company Secretary's Handbook: Practice and Procedure (10th edition)

The Hong Kong Company Secretary's Handbook: Practice and Procedure (10th edition) by Cheng Po Wah; Sum Heung Suet, Anna; Yuen Kam Tim, Francis, published by Pearson

This 10th edition of The Hong Kong Company Secretary’s Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to company secretarial procedures in Hong Kong. It is written for practicing company secretaries, corporate lawyers, and students taking examinations in company law and company secretarial practice.

This edition includes substantial updates to the chapters on:

• Formation of a Company
• Share Capital and Financial Assistance for Purchase of Shares
• Methods of Raising Share Capital
• Alternation of Share Capital and Variation of Class Rights
• Company Meetings
• Company Directors
• Auditors
• Registration of Charges
• Notifiable Transactions and Connected Transactions
• Company Accounts, Directors’ Report, and Business Review
• Annual General Meeting
• Redemption of Redeemable Shares and Share Buy0back
• Reduction of Share Capital
• Schemes of Arrangement
• Takeovers and Mergers, and Amalgamation of Group Companies
• Non-Hong Kong Companies
• British Virgin Islands Business Companies – Companies Limited by Shares
• PRC Companies
• Listing of Securities on the Singapore Exchange – Catalist Board
• Corporate Governance Matters
• Cayman Island Companies – Exempted Companies

To facilitate understanding and drafting of notices, announcements, circulars, etc., for companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, a new Appendix 5 has been added. It contains useful information and reference to sample documents available on the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited website that are arranged by chapter and topic.

The book features checklists of procedures encountered in practice, sample documents, and a list of prescribed forms in appendices. The step-by-step guide is an invaluable reference source for the busy company secretary and corporate lawyer.

1. Introduction
2. Formation of a Company
3. Post-incorporation Formalities
4. Share Capital and Financial Assistance for Purchase of Shares
5. Methods of Raising Share Capital
6. Partly Paid Shares
7. Alteration of Share Capital and Variation of Class Rights
8. Company Meetings
9. Company Directors
10. Company Secretary
11. Auditors
12. Change of Company’s Name, Objects Clauses, Articles of Association, and Registered Office
13. Bank Accounts
14. Common Seals, Securities Seal, and Official Seal
15. Transfer of Shares
16. Transmission of Shares
17. Share Certificates
18. Registration of Documents
19. Loan Capital / Debentures
20. Registration of Charges
21. Notifiable Transactions and Connected Transactions
22. Securities and Futures Ordinance – Part XV: Disclosure of Interests
23. Dividends
24. Company Accounts, Directors’ Reports, and Business Reviews
25. Annual General Meeting
26. Redemption of Redeemable Shares and Share Buy-back
27. Reduction of Share Capital
28. Schemes of Arrangement
29. Takeovers and Mergers, and Amalgamation of Group Companies
30. Dissolution of a Company
31. Non-Hong Kong Companies
32. Liberian Companies
33. Panamanian Companies
34. British Virgin Islands Business Companies – Companies Limited by Shares
35. Bermuda Companies – Exempted Companies
36. PRC Companies
37. Listing of Securities on the Singapore Stock Exchange – Catalist Board
38. Corporate Governance Matters
39. Listing of Securities on the Growth Enterprise Market / Second Board of the Stock Exchange
40. Cayman Islands Companies – Exempted Companies

41. 
    Appendices

42. Company Secretary’s Checklist for Holding a Board Meeting
43. Company Secretary’s Checklist for Holding and Annual General Meeting of a Listed Company
44. Sample Documents
45. List of Prescribed Forms
46. Useful Information Available on the Website of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

47.  

    Index