Beswick and Wine: Buying and Selling Private Companies and Businesses

The eighth edition of this well-established book adopts a practical approach, considering both the UK vendor's and seller's perspective and providing the practitioner with a step-by-step guide to all the legal, taxation, and commercial issues involved in buying and selling private companies and businesses. It includes check-lists, draft enquiries, letters of disclosure, and a specimen completion agenda, together with an accompanying CD-ROM containing all the UK precedents in the work. New for this edition: UK legislative and case law changes relating to buying and selling businesses * full implementation details of the new Companies Act in late 2008 * objection to company names * corporate directors and under-age directors * provisions relating to the directors' 'conflicts of interest duties' * share capital reduction - solvency statement route * repeal of the restrictions on financial assistance for acquisition of shares in private companies * changing Articles of Association * tax law changes and latest rates.