Questions tagged [corporate-law]
The body of law about corporations, including mergers, acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate liability, finance, and bankruptcy. The fact that a question involves a corporation does not make it a corporate law question.
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Does a new company taking over another company have to uphold last companies contracts? [duplicate]
If a company A takes over company B's contracts, does company A have to uphold company B's contract language?
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Under what corporate mechanism can the CEO of Intel transfer 10% of the company to the US government?
It was recently reported that Intel Corporation has made a deal with the US government where, for some consideration, the US government will end up with 10% of the total shares of Intel. This deal was ...
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How should a nonprofit corporation react to or rectify mistakes in the execution of its corporate bylaws?
Nonprofit corporations often have bylaws that determine things like what the board of the corporation can do, and how membership of that board or other state of the corporation should evolve over time....
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What are the legal risks of using dynamic NDA templates in automated contract systems? [closed]
I'm working on a system that helps generate legal agreements like NDAs using configurable templates and logic (e.g., conditional clauses, reusable modules).
My question is about the legal implications ...
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What is the current state of play of the FCPA
In February of 2025 Trump paused the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for 180 days.
Does this mean that during this period that US companies are now effectively free to bribe foreign officials?
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If a firm gets acquired, must new owners respect past subscriptions?
Reading VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them made me wonder: if a firm gets acquired, must new owners respect past subscriptions?
Over the years, I've used ...
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How are creditors and public investors protected in the US if there is no minimum capital requirement for public companies?
I recently came across the legal capital requirements for public companies under the Companies Act 2006. Specifically, UK law requires a minimum allotted share capital of £50,000 for a company to ...
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What to do if an NDA lists a company name that differs from its legal name?
Bob was recently asked to sign an NDA (digitally) for a project with a well-known (fictitious) company, “FaceNet LLC”. However, when reviewing the document, he noticed that the entity listed on the ...
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When does a company "know" something?
For example, suppose a criminal offence contains elements of knowledge, like Violence for securing entry to promises under section 6 of the Criminal Law Act, which requires:
use or threat of violence ...
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Bodies corporate, employee knowledge, and criminal guilt
Without specific statutory provisions concerning parallel individual liability for corporate offences in case of consent/connivance/negligence on the part of the individual, ie in the general case of ...
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How do you prove that a company hired someone at a particular time frame? [duplicate]
I'm involved in a case and I'm trying to prove that a small private company had hired someone during a particular time frame. The name of the employee is irrelevant. It just has to be proved that they ...
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Enforcing a monetary order against a company
Assume an order has already been made but the debtor (who is a company) is not paying. The next step is to file a Summons to a Payment Hearing. Though it's the company being sued, a specific person ...
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Can an S-Corporation be a member of an LLC with foreign members?
Assume the scenario where an LLC has three members. One member/owner of the LLC is an S-Corporation. The other two members are foreign individuals. Each has a 33% ownership in the LLC. Note the ...
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If you're disqualified from being a director of a company in India (DIN disqualified) can you remain director of a company in England?
Someone I know has been DIN disqualified in India, but has continued to hold a directorship in the UK, and even conducted business in India for the UK company whilst disqualified.
EDIT: I asked a ...
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Can someone not be declared dead after being missing, for an indefinite time?
This is about a fictional story where a man was a majority owner of a corporation; he, his wife, and their son, an only child, vanished on a foreign trip; while the man and his wife had died, their ...
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