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Cyber liability, cyber security and information governance are terms that directors are becoming more aware of due to high profile data security breaches.

Ireland's new automatic enrolment retirement savings system (AERSS and known as My Future Fund) will take effect from 1 January 2026. It raises some specific considerations for directors...

As reported in our briefing in January 2022, an important Irish Revenue concession which is relevant to directors' physical attendance at board meetings and company residence for Irish tax purposes expired yesterday.

Examinership is a court enforced moratorium on creditor action which allows a brief period during which a company can be restructured.

The Newsletter highlights specific areas of interest to Irish retail intermediary firms and notably, what the CBI regards as the potential risks to a firm's business.

In the second of a series of articles providing insights on the management and corporate governance of Irish companies, Pat English and Grainne Boyle examine who can represent a company and explain the importance of the establishing and ...

On 3 April 2017, the European Council announced that it had adopted, without debate, a directive which will amend the existing Shareholder Rights Directive.

Since our last survey in 2020, there have been several events that have influenced the board meeting location. First, the incorporation rule has become ubiquitous...

On 19 May 2021, the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") published a letter it sent to all Irish authorised UCITS managers (including self-managed UCITS) on 18 May 2021 relating to its...

Directors of Irish resident companies who routinely travel to Ireland to attend board meetings may find they are unable to travel due to disruptions to airline schedules, lock-downs

The European Court of Justice has held that a director of an English company can be liable for breach of German company law where insolvency proceedings are opened in Germany.

Until the introduction of the Irish Companies Act 2014 ("Act"), the duties of a director of an Irish company were governed by over a century of case law. Fortunately for directors, companies and their advisers...

The Companies Bill 2012 was published on 21 December 2012 by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and seeks to consolidate the existing 16 Companies Acts and reform existing Irish company law.

With just over one month to go before the 22 November deadline, less than 10% of companies have successfully filed beneficial ownership

The long-awaited Companies Bill 2012 ("Bill") published on 21 December 2012 is the product of extensive work by the Company Law Review Group ("CLRG") and in the words of Minister Bruton "is the largest substantive Bill in the history of the State".

The Act was commenced by the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation on 21 August 2020.

A central principle of Irish company law is the doctrine of separate legal personality, allowing incorporated entities to enter into contracts, trade, file claims and take on debts in their own name.