If a shareholder loses his share certificate or his certificate is destroyed, he is entitled to receive a new certificate from the company in which he held those shares – often on payment of a small nominal fee. However, before a company cancels an existing share certificate and issues a […]

In order to transfer shares in a limited liability company, there are a number of simple steps that you must first go through. Firstly, the seller or buyer must complete a stock transfer form (often called a share transfer form). The layout and structure of this form is prescribed under […]

Irish companies generally have two different types of share capital – authorised share capital and issued share capital. Authorised share capital is simply the maximum amount of share capital that a company can issue to its shareholders. This amount will be displayed in the Memorandum of Association of the company […]