Provides an accessible guide to company law in Hong Kong. The text is based on the latest provisions of the Companies Ordinance and cases decided since the summer of 1998, in both the Hong Kong and English jurisdictions.
Written specially for practitioners in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Company Secretary's Practice Manual provides a concise explanation of the laws and issues affecting corporate secretarial practice. The guide provides a comprehensive mix of commentary, specimen minutes, and resolutions as well as full reproduction of prescribed forms, and selected guidelines and codes. All these help the company secretary or those in a compliance role understand and apply the requirements under company and securities law in fulfilling their obligations to their company and its offices. Company secretaries will benefit from time-saving features which include: a step-by-step guide to the completion of corporate secretarial forms; comprehensive checklists; sample resolutions and Articles of Associations; and a concise commentary on the law to help determine the best approach to adopt in line with their business needs. Authored by Belinda Wong of Leader Corporate Services Ltd who has over 25 years' experience in the company secretarial field, Hong Kong Company Secretary's Practice Manual is unrivalled in terms of comprehensives of areas covered in great detail and the practical approach taken.
The landscape of shareholder dispute resolution in Hong Kong has changed vastly since the launch of the Civil Justice Reform in 2009. Key initiatives - the voluntary court-connected scheme and reform of the statutory unfair prejudice provisions - were employed to promote the greater use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in shareholder disputes. While the Hong Kong government and judiciary introduced such schemes to prove the legitimacy of extra-judicial over court-based litigation processes, their success is still uncertain. In this book, socio-legal theory and sociological institutionalism are used to develop a theoretical framework for analyzing the key stages of institutionalization. The author analyzes how procedural innovations could acquire legitimacy through different types of legal and non-legal inducement mechanisms within the institutionalization process. Recommendations on codifying and innovating ADR policy in Hong Kong shareholder disputes are also made with comparison to similar policies in the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand.