Business Forms and Corporate Personality
Start with what a Chinese company is, why separate personality matters, and how limited liability differs from other business forms.
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Ten linked units from business forms and corporate personality through listed-company regulation, state-invested companies, and liquidation.
Formation, Registration, and Articles
Follow a company from promoter planning to public registration, articles of association, business scope, and foreign-invested company status.
Open unitCapital Contributions and Shareholder Finance
Study registered capital, subscribed contributions, payment deadlines, defective contribution liability, reductions, and creditor-facing finance rules.
Open unitCorporate Organs and Governance
Understand shareholder meetings, boards, supervisors, audit committees, managers, employee representatives, and the allocation of corporate authority.
Open unitDirectors, Officers, and Controller Duties
Compare loyalty, diligence, conflict transactions, de facto control, controller liability, and comparative fiduciary-duty standards.
Open unitShareholder Rights and Minority Protection
Study voting, information rights, profit distribution, transfer restrictions, resolution challenges, derivative suits, and dissolution as minority remedies.
Open unitVeil Piercing, Groups, and Creditors
Examine when separate personality yields to creditor protection, especially in affiliated-company groups and undercapitalized or confused operations.
Open unitListed Companies, Securities, and Disclosure
Connect company law to securities regulation, listed-company governance, disclosure obligations, overseas listings, and investor protection.
Open unitState-Owned and Foreign-Invested Companies
Study special governance problems in state-invested companies and foreign-invested enterprises under the revised Company Law and investment regime.
Open unitDistress, Dissolution, and Liquidation
Finish with exit: dissolution, deregistration, liquidation obligations, creditor notice, deadlock remedies, and the consequences of failed record preservation.
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