Companies Limited by Guarantee is the only book available that deals exclusively with such companies. It provides a complete guide to the formation, administration and winding up of companies limited by guarantee and their suitability for a diverse range of purposes.  It includes full coverage of:

• The nature and purposes of companies limited by guarantee, their advantages and disadvantages and a consideration of the circumstances in which they are used
• The company's constitution, including company names, its objects, the guarantee and the content and effect of the articles
• Methods of financing a company limited by guarantee
• Membership of the company, including admission and expulsion of members
• The directors of the company, their appointment, removal and duties
• The calling, requisition and conduct of company meetings
• Reorganisation, takeovers and winding-up of companies limited by guarantee.

Precedent clauses for the company’s constitution are also included, along with useful checklists for lawyers and company secretaries.

Companies Limited by Guarantee has been comprehensively updated to address the Companies Act 2006, the Charities Act 2006 and other major legal developments

This highly practical book is an invaluable resource for all company lawyers as well as those advising charities, clubs, property management companies and trade associations; lawyers working in the public sector; accountants; directors and company secretaries of companies limited by guarantee.

Mark Mullen, barrister and Josh Lewison, barrister, Radcliffe Chambers

• Nature and purposes of a company limited by guarantee
• A company’s formation and constitution
• Finance 
• Membership 
• Directors 
• Company meetings 
• Reorganisations, takeovers and winding up 
• Appendices: Memorandum and articles of association; Alternative clauses for a property management company; Expulsion of a member; Miscellaneous clauses; Checklist for formation of a company limited by guarantee; Application for membership; Notice of general meeting; Checklist of requirements – company stationery and premises; Checklist for converting an unincorporated charity into a charitable company; Checklist of annual filing requirements (charitable companies)

Appendices are included on the accompanying CD-ROM.

"exceptionally well written and very comprehensive ... for those practitioners who deal each day in the law relating to charities, housing associations, property management or trade associations, this book will prove an invaluable reference point ... an excellent guide"
Solicitors Journal

"a detailed and practical book ... clear and well laid out"
PLC

"Company law practitioners have complete access to the law governing these companies in a slim volume"
New Law Journal

"Contains a wealth of new material...practiculary useful are the ten appendices with their range of useful forms and checklists...a real time saver, which very handily presents, in one lucidly written and concise volume, virtually everything you need to know concerning this area of company law"
Phillip Taylor MBE 'click here for a full review'