Company Law Blog

Plain-English guides to the company law people actually live with — shareholders, directors, strike-offs, clubs — and the deepest owners’ management company library in Ireland.

Shareholders

Minority Shareholder Rights in Ireland: Section 212 in Plain English

Frozen out, starved of information, outvoted into irrelevance - what the oppression remedy actually protects, and how buy-outs at fair value happen.

Directors

How to Remove a Company Director in Ireland (and How Not To)

The statutory procedure, the rights the director keeps, and why ambush removals collapse - from both sides of the boardroom door.

Shareholders

50/50 Shareholder Deadlock: Your Options When Nobody Can Move

The drafted mechanisms, the negotiated exit, mediation, and the court’s heavy machinery - in the order they should be tried.

Directors

Directors’ Duties in Ireland, in Plain English

Section 228’s eight duties translated - and the paper trail that proves you performed them when someone asks with hindsight.

Strike-Off

Company Struck Off: What Happens Next

Existence ends, property vests in the State - and the 2024 Act’s new grounds mean more companies are at risk than realise it.

Strike-Off

Restoring a Struck-Off Company in Ireland

The 12-month CRO route, the court routes up to 20 years, the OMC 6-year window - and why every month of delay costs.

Company Law

The Companies Act 2024 Changes, Explained

Virtual AGMs made permanent, three new strike-off grounds, the audit exemption change from July 2025 - what small companies actually need to do.

Director Exposure

Section 819 Restriction: The Director’s Guide

The liquidator’s letter is a process, not a verdict. What restriction does, the honest-and-responsible defence, and how the file is won.

Director Exposure

Personal Guarantees in Ireland: What Directors Need to Know

Before you sign one, and after one is called in - construction, defences and the negotiated endgame.

Insolvency

SCARP: The Small Company Rescue Process Explained

The rescue route for viable businesses inside broken balance sheets - how it works, who qualifies, and why speed is everything.

Clubs & Charities

The Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG), Explained

The corporate form behind Ireland’s clubs, charities and OMCs - what the committee actually signed up for.

Clubs & Charities

Sports Club and Committee Disputes in Ireland

Contested AGMs, committee coups and entrenched officers - won by whoever reads the constitution first.

OMC

What Is an Owners’ Management Company?

If you own an apartment, you own part of a company. The canonical explainer: what an OMC is, what it must do, and where the managing agent fits.

OMC

MUD Act Section 24 Disputes, Explained

The Circuit Court machinery almost nobody uses: standing, remedies, court-directed mediation - and what Lee Towers teaches about insolvent developers.

OMC

Service Charge Disputes: Apartment Owners’ Rights

Charges must be approved, transparent and properly spent. Your rights under section 18 - and why withholding is the wrong weapon.

OMC

OMC AGMs: What Members Can Demand

The annual meeting and report the law requires, the information you are entitled to, and the escalation ladder when the board goes silent.

OMC

OMC Directors: Duties, Liability and Protection

Two Acts, one volunteer. What you actually took on, where the real risks are, and the annual rhythm that keeps you safe.

OMC

OMC Struck Off: Consequences and the 6-Year Restoration Window

Title chaos, insurance doubt, sales frozen - and the special restoration route the MUD Act keeps open for six years.

OMC

The Developer Never Transferred the Common Areas: What Now?

The 2011 deadline most developments missed, what it means for sales and management, and the routes to completing the transfer.

OMC

OMC Regulation and Reform: What’s Coming

Regulation moving to Housing, a Housing Agency unit committed, service-charge regulations in drafting - how boards and owners should position now.