Beswick and Wine: Buying and Selling Private Companies and Businesses, 8th edition

The 8th edition of this well established book adopts a practical approach, considering both the 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 free disk containing all the precedents in the work.

New for this edition:
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.