HEGDE Associates

Corporate law is the study of how shareholders, directors, employees, creditors, and other stakeholders such as consumers,the community and the environment interact with one another under the internal rules of the firm. The five defining characteristics of the modern corporation are:

	Separate Legal Personality of the corporation (the law treats the company as a human being).

	Limited Liability of the shareholders (so that when the company is insolvent, they only owe the money that they subscribed for in shares).

	Transferable Shares (usually on a listed exchange).

	Delegated Management, i.e., control of the company placed in the hands of a board of directors.

	Investor Ownership, ownership by shareholders.

Matters related to formation, incorporation & registration of companies, share holdings, disputes pertaining to the share holding, Company Law Board matters, mergers, amalgamations, Joint ventures, and disputes of Directors. Business start up services, takeovers, demergers, acquisitions.