Companies Acts – Company Law
The Company Acts are the international laws private companies limited by shares are regulated by.
Its purpose is to separate the legal identity of the Company from the personal identity of its shareholders, by the creation of a separate corporate and legal identity allowing the owners not to be personally liable for the liabilities of the Company.
The characteristics of the Limited Liability Company are:
- Separate Legal Entity
- Limited Liability
- Perpetual Succession
- Separate Property
- Transferability of Shares
- Capacity to sue and being sued
- Separate Management
- One Share – One Vote
| Anguilla | Companies Act – Chapter 65 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | International Business Corporation Act – Chapter 222 |
| Australia | Australia Corporation Act 2001 |
| Bahamas | Bahamas IBC Act 309 |
| Belize | The International Business Companies Act – Chapter 270 |
| Bermuda | Bermuda Companies Act 1981 |
| BVI | BVI Business Corporations Act |
| Canada | Canada Business Corporations Act |
| Cayman Islands | Companies Law 2010 |
| Cook Islands | International Companies Act 1981-82 Consolidation |
| Cyprus | The Companies Law – Chapter 113 |
| Czech Republic | Business Corporate Act |
| Denmark | The Danish Companies Act |
| Estonia | Commercial Code |
| Germany | Gesetz betreffend die Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung |
| Gibraltar | Companies Act 2014 |
| Guernsey | Companies Guernsey Law 2008 |
| Hong Kong | Companies Ordinance |
| Isle of Man | Companies Act 2006 |
| Ireland | Companies Act 2014 |
| Jersey | Jersey Companies Law 1991 |
| Liberia | Business Corporation Act Title 5 |
| Liechtenstein | Liechtenstein Company Law |
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg Commercial Companies Act |
| Malaysia | Offshore Companies Act 441 |
| Malta | Companies Act Chapter 386 |
| Marshall Islands | Associations Law 2010 |
| Mauritius | Companies Act 2001 |
| New Zealand | Companies Act 1993 No 105 |
| Panama | Panama Corporation Laws |
| Philippines | Corporation Code |
| Romania | Commercial Law no. 31 |
| St Kitts & Nevis | Nevis LLC Ordinance 2017 |
| Nevis Business Corporation Ordinance 2017 | |
| St Kitts Companies Act 1996 | |
| Seychelles | International Business Companies Act 2016 |
| Singapore | Companies Act |
| South Africa | Companies Act 71 of 2008 |
| Spain | Corporate Enterprises Act (Ley De Sociedades De Capital) |
| Trinidad & Tobago | Companies Act |
| Turks and Caicos | Companies Ordinance |
| UK | Companies Act 2006 Chapter 46 |
| Companies Act 2006 notes | |
| Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 notes/ | |
| UAE | Companies Law DIFC Law No: 2 of 2009 |
| USA | Model Business Corporation Act |
| USA – Delaware | Delaware Limited Liability Company Act |
| USA – Florida | Florida Revised Limited Liability Company Act |
| USA – Nevada | Nevada Private Corporations 78 |
| USA – Wyoming | Wyoming Limited Liability Company Act |
| Vanuatu | International Companies Act Chapter 222 |
| Memorandum / Articles / Statutes | |
| UK | Model Articles for Private Limited Company |
| Model Articles for Public Limited Company |