Company law: Fundamentals

Business owner, merchant, liberal profession and any individual interested in an introduction to company law.

Upon successful completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

• understand how a company is created in Luxembourg
• understand how to deal with a company's on-going daily administration
• understand certain particular operations relating to companies

Creating a Luxembourg company

• Players involved
• Articles of Association

Institutions in a Luxembourg company

• Shareholders
• Boards of directors/two-tier management
• Statutory auditors

Company secretary

• Convening notices for director's and shareholders' meetings
• Drafting board minutes
• Drafting shareholder meeting minutes
• Other administration (shareholder's registers)

Annual general meetings of shareholders

• Approval of accounts
• Approval of reports

Extraordinary general meetings

• Increases in capital
• Other reasons for having EGM's

The course ends with a written exam. Successful completion of the exam is sanctioned by a certificate of success issued by the House of Training and cosigned by the "Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de l'Enfance et de la Jeunesse".

The course material can be downloaded free of charge via your portal five days before the start of the course. During registration, you have the possibility to order, against payment, a printed version of the course material.