Company law: Fundamentals

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".