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The General Meeting of a joint stock company
Stiborová, Aneta ; Čech, Petr (advisor) ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (referee)
The aim of my thesis is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current legal status of general meetings of the stock companies and procedures for their assembling from the perspective of legal theory and practice, focusing on the current decision-making process of courts within the Czech Republic. The method used for gathering all the information needed was the studying of the available sources, namely: published books and magazines, and published judgments of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic considering the given issue. The paper aims, in addition to a general description and unification of uncontested facts, to discuss issues and options for solutions conformimg with the laws of the Czech Republic. Simultaneously, the paper seeks to draw attention to the conclusions of the courts and the vocational community. The focus of the thesis is the definition of authorized meeting organizers and their responsibilities associated the role; followed by a systematic analysis of the covening of the General Assembly to define particular problems which might be encountered by the convener and shareholders may throughout the practice. The conclusion is devoted to European law and its impact on the law of the Czech Republic in the field of law of general meetings of joint stock companies.
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Position of the general meeting of a limited liability company
Štěpánková, Kateřina ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Liška, Petr (referee)
- Position of the general meeting of a limited liability company This diploma thesis concentrates on the general meeting of a limited liability company and its position within the organizational structure of the company. The goal of the diploma thesis is to provide a basic overwiev of selected institutes and analyse the relationship between the general meeting and other company bodies. This most often concerns the statutory body and possibly also the supervisory board, as a whole, or their individual members. Individual chapters are chosen as to enable to illustrate the mutual arrangement of relationships on them. The thesis is divided into two basic parts. The first part considers how the general meeting can impact on other company bodies, or their members. That's why the first chapter deals with election and dismissal of a statutory representative, or a member of the supervisory board. It for example describes the concrete process, or the possibilities, which the general meeting has in this connection. The second chapter considers the contract of execution of office, which together with the regulation of rewarding of the body members has to be compulsorily approved by the general meeting itself, the reward, which can be granted by an internal regulation approved by the general meeting and other...
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Invalidity of a resolution of the General Meeting
Maslík, Vladimír ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Štenglová, Ivanka (referee)
72 Invalidity of a resolution of the General Meeting Summary This thesis focuses on the issue of invalidity of a resolution of the General Meeting in terms of the current legislation contained in the Commercial Code (Act No. 513/1991 Coll.). Extensive space is devoted to its application in decision-making practice of the courts, especially the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic. The work is divided into 11 basic chapters. Chapter One and Two are devoted to a general description of the General Meeting as the supreme authority of the capital commercial companies and analyze the manner of decision-making. Significant space is devoted to the legal nature of the resolutions of the General Meeting, where the work confronts the various currents of opinion among professionals themselves and with the decisions of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic. Chapter Three contains the reasons for invalidity of a resolution described with a more detailed analysis of defects, in the presence of which can be the validity of the resolution called into question. Chapter Four is devoted to nullity, as the specific case of the invalidity of the resolutions of the General Meeting, which has resulted in a breakthrough to the limits laid down in § 131, respectively § 183 of the Commercial Code. Chapter Five deals with conditions,...
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Competences of the general meeting of a limited liability company
Švestka, Vít ; Štenglová, Ivanka (advisor) ; Patěk, Daniel (referee)
and keywords This diploma thesis deals on the competence of general assembly in a limited liability company. In the introduction the author made a brief historical summary presenting the previous legislation of the Czech republic. The thesis is divided into four parts. The first part concerns with the general findings on the competence of general assembly including its classification. The second part is special to the first one, since it concerns with particular cases of competencies. This part is the most voluminous one because of its goal to interpret various conditions to take a decision depending on case of competency. In the third part the author made description of the French legislation and compared it to the Czech one. From the previous findings the author made a critical evaluation of contemporary legislation in the fourth part as well as specific suggestion for law-making changes.
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Competencies of General Meeting of limited liability company
Snížek, Martin ; Štenglová, Ivanka (advisor) ; Čech, Petr (referee)
Competencies of General Meeting of limited liability company The purpose of my thesis is to analyse competencies of a general meeting of a limited liability company, show different theoretical opinions and present my own ideas. I have chosen this topic because the limited liability company is the most common type of business entity in the Czech Republic and so I find this topic useful. The thesis is composed of Introduction, four chapters and Conclusion. Introduction defines aims and methods of this thesis. First general chapter is followed by three chapters, each of which dealing with different aspects of general meeting's competence. Chapter One is introductory and defines basic terminology used in the thesis. This chapter is subdivided into five parts. Part One describes the limited liability company and explains basic characteristics of this type of business entity set out by the Czech Commercial Code, No. 513/1991 Coll., as amended (hereinafter referred to as the ,,Commercial Code ). Part Two deals with the general meeting and it's position within the company. Part Three is concerned with powers of the general meeting and explains this term in general. Part Four is about members' decision making outside of the general meeting and Part five deals with some differences of decision making of a...
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Selected legal issues of corporate governance in the Czech Republic
Filip, Václav
The thesis is divided into several parts. The first part contains categorization of corporate governance systems and their fundamental characteristics. Author divides them according to criteria of the ownership structure and organizational structure and considers the influence of the corporate governance system to the protection of shareholders and the value of their shares. In the next part identifies three basic types of agency problems and discusses market and legal instruments that might reduce these problems. In conclusion, this chapter deals with the modern trend of regulation of quoted companies that are codices of corporate governance. The third, fourth and fifth part are the key parts with respect to analysis of domestic legal regulation. In the third part is the main focus given to the legal regulation of providing information to investors and shareholders. The field of transparency of joint-stock companies is the mostly regulated part by the European law regulation that was massively changed and lead to the strong modification of local laws regulation of new member states of the European Union including the Czech Republic as well as the developed founding members. In the fourth part is analyzed organizational structure of the quoted company with respect to the distribution of the powers between...
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Invalidity, nullity and ineffectiveness of a resolution of general meeting and other bodies of a limited company
Šutko, David ; Čech, Petr (advisor) ; Horáček, Tomáš (referee)
Invalidity, nullity and ineffectiveness of a resolution of general meeting and other bodies of a limited company Abstract This Master's thesis deals with the issue of invalidity of the resolutions of the general meeting of capital companies in the applicable private law of the Czech Republic. The introduction of this Master's thesis covers the historical development of legislation concerning the general regulation of the limited liability company and the joint stock company with a certain focus on good morals and the invalidity of the resolutions of the general meeting of the capital companies in the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic and its successor state departments. Chapter on the legal nature of the resolutions of the general meeting follows on from this historical definition. Similarly as in the case of historical development, legal nature of the resolutions of general meeting is first addressed in historical context, more specifically before the year 2014. The purpose of this analysis is to define the basic theoretical assumptions, which are also applicable to the legal nature of the resolutions of the general meeting at the time of applicability of the Civil Code and the Business Corporations Act. The chapter is concluded with a finding that the change in the legal nature of the resolutions of...
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Resolution of the General Meeting of Limited Liability Company
Mach, Lukáš ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Josková, Lucie (referee)
- Resolution of the General Meeting of Limited Liability Company The subject of this diploma thesis is Resolution of the General Meeting of Limited Liability Company. Since legal character of a resolution is mainly determined by how a legal order defines legal persons and juridical acts, the first part of this thesis discusses the theoretical grounds of legal (artificial) persons. The specifics of the current legal regulation are also mentioned afterwards. These general conceptions are then applied to the specifics of the Czech legal order and limited liability company respectively. The second chapter looks into the function of the general meeting. Specifically, issues such as convening and powers of the general meeting or attendace and voting at the general meeting, are dealt with. The third chapter analyzes the resolution of the general meeting itself. It begins with a brief historical excursion to the concept of the legal nature of the resolution. Then it looks for an answer on how the resolution is percieved nowadays. It follows the conclusions found in chapter one, when it deals in more detail with the question of whose will is manifested in the resolution of the general meeting. Furthermore, a short explanation of the juridical acts is provided. The thesis then proceeds in logical order by...
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The course of a general meeting of a joint-stock company
Sladký, Filip ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Štenglová, Ivanka (referee)
The course of a general meeting of a joint-stock company The primary goal of the following diploma thesis is to comprehensively analyse the topic in question after the recent recodification of the Czech private law. The author aims to evaluate the current legal state of the course of a general meeting of a joint-stock company by studying multiple relevant sources, outlining the most important legal aspects and reviewing some of the frequently academically discussed contemporary issues and topics. Primarily the author aims to accomplish that by thoroughly studying and examining the newest legal doctrine and some of the most important existing judicial decisions. Systematically the thesis consists of four main chapters. The first chapter contains the general introduction of the matter and a legal definition of a joint-stock company while mainly focusing on its structure and bodies. The second chapter is divided into two parts and generally focuses on the matter of participation and the legal representation on a general meeting. The first part of the chapter highlights the legal reasons of why and by whom the general meeting of a joint-stock company can be convened. The author then defines and discusses all its possible participants in the following part of the chapter. The third chapter is devoted to...
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The course of a general meetings of a joint-stock company
Sáblíková, Martina ; Patěk, Daniel (advisor) ; Štenglová, Ivanka (referee)
- The course of general meetings of a joint-stock company The topic of this thesis is the course of general meetings of a joint-stock company. A joint stock-company is a limited company (a stock corporation), that means a company when membership in this company is connected with the obligation of investment contribution, either monetary or non-monetary, and that upon its formation, or when increasing its registered capital. The supreme body of a joint-stock company is the general meeting. The general meeting is a compulsory formed body regardless of the internal system of joint-stock companies, no matter if it is a monistic or dualistic board structure joint-stock company. With regard to the fact that it is compulsory, it is evident that the general meeting plays an important role in the functioning of the company itself. Within this thesis attention is also devoted to situations which are closely related to the course of general meetings. These are situations that precede general meetings, e.g. convening, and also situations after their closing. Within this thesis is also partly compared current legislation relating to joint stock companies, Act No. 90/2012 Sb., law on business corporations and cooperatives, with the previous related legislation, that means Act No. 513/1991 Sb., the Commercial...
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