Justin Tips
Justin Tips
1. Essay
2. Problematic
Topics
CLO1
- Financing a company
o Main is CMSA & some Companies Act provisions
o Focus on protecting interest of investors, ie investors protection.
o Might ask:
How does law ensure investors are protected?
In your opinion, what other mechanism should be in place to protect
investors? – that could be your conclusion.
o Mostly it comes from acts, not many cases
- Corporate Rescue Mechanism (essay question – straightforward)
o MUST FOCUS
o Make a table of comparison, so u know which one applicable / suitable for a
given situation
o Not many cases also, only two or three – most important is the provision
o Know where to find relevant provisions & u know three things – when
advising client, these three should be included:
1. Legal provisions
2. Procedure
3. Penalty
o Don’t take for granted on how u present answers, it should be in order – what
is 1st step, 2nd step etc.
o Once u do comparison, u know for this situation, e.g.: cannot use JM, the type
of company is diff.
CLO2 is problematic questions
- Shareholding shares & diff types of shareholding & how each one is affected when a
situation occurs:
o Shares
Should know how to apply the concepts given the different scenarios –
eg: Somebody is shareholder.
Shares – Fully paid, partially paid etc – he cannot emphasize this is
relevant also for our legal attachment.
o Ordinary shares, preference shares – which one is given preference and so on.
- Membership & members’ remedies
o It was in your midterm & Project 2 – u can benefit from that also
o U can include cases if feel relevant
o Even if no taught about it, he will look it up the cases in the scenarios given.
- Charges
o Debenture & loan capital
o Two main types of charges: fixed & floating
These are big main types, but underneath there are various issues – eg:
Each would hv their own characteristics/features
the diff between the two,
which one should be given priority,
when does one type of charge change in force/ crystalized into
another type of charge
o This with shareholding topic got lots of cases. – Try to look into the cases
o No one going to tell u this is fixed or floating charge
We should know by looking at the characteristics/nature of charge –
how to tell the nature is other than the provision is the cases
o Should know when to find the relevant provisions
- Topics which are not mentioned not to say not important – at least u should know
where to find them. This is for our flow of thoughts become smoother.
- CVA & SOA question – if he were to deal – which one
o Go through concept of elimination, stick to the one thinking most applicable
given the facts
o Facts got some hints usually, not necessarily.
- All in all, there is no reason why u should fail, u did your Project 1.
- Companies (Amendment) Act cannot be printed out – not allowed to bring in
o Don’t bring in anything other than CA 2016 & apply the law as in that
particular Act, wont be penalized for not putting new provisions
o Can put it in the conclusion to show that u know
- Compulsory usually is essay
- Second part is the optional.