Company Law
Core company law course covering incorporation, corporate personality, directors' duties, shareholder rights, corporate finance, and corporate insolvency, taught at the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law.
This course introduces the main principles governing the operation of companies. Students are to appreciate, inter alia, the rules governing the incorporation of companies, how this corporate personality operates, how this business vehicle fits in with the broader framework of the outside world, questions of funding and what comprises good corporate governance. Topics include the following: incorporation; relations between the company and the outside world, including ultra vires and agency; relations within the company, including the effect of the memorandum and articles, member’s rights, director’s duties, and enforcement of corporate rights; corporate finance; corporate insolvency and winding up.
Download individual lecture slides and the syllabus below.
- Latest Syllabus 2025.docxDOCX · 72 KB
- 2. Foundations of Company Law.pptxPPTX · 5.3 MB
- 3. Corporate Personality and Attributes I.pptxPPTX · 885 KB
- 4. Corporate Personality and Attributes II.pptxPPTX · 795 KB
- 5. Corporate Acts and Liaibilities I.pptxPPTX · 676 KB
- 6. Corporate Acts and Liaibilities II.pptxPPTX · 778 KB
- 7. Corporate Constitution and Membership I.pptxPPTX · 771 KB
- 8. Corporate Constitution and Membership II.pptxPPTX · 707 KB
- 9. Corporate Organs and Decision-Making I.pptxPPTX · 984 KB
- 10. Corporate Organs and Decision-Making II.pptxPPTX · 869 KB
- 11. Corporate Finance.pptxPPTX · 2.7 MB
- 12. Directors Duties I.pptxPPTX · 1.2 MB
- 13. Directors Duties II.pptxPPTX · 1.7 MB
- 14. Directors Duties III.pptxPPTX · 905 KB
- 15. Directors Duties IV.pptxPPTX · 787 KB
- 16. Shareholder Litigation Corporate Wrongs I.pptxPPTX · 820 KB
- 17. Shareholder Litigation Corporate Wrongs II.pptxPPTX · 774 KB
- 18. Shareholder Litigation Personal Wrongs I.pptxPPTX · 837 KB
- 19. Shareholder Litigation Personal Wrongs II.pptxPPTX · 688 KB
- 20. Capital Maintenance.pptxPPTX · 1.5 MB