Shares and Shareholders - Quality Company Formations

Shares and Shareholders

Image of a Last Will and Testament on desk with pen and spectacles.

What happens when a company shareholder dies?

Shares and Shareholders

Reduction of capital - everything you need to know

Reduction of capital – everything you need to know

Shares and Shareholders

Image of printed copies of Companies House form SH08, which must be completed when a redesignation of shares is carried out.

Redesignation – a guide to converting your company shares

Shares and Shareholders

Boy sitting with his feet up on a desk, wearing sunglasses and throwing money in the air.

What are dividends?

Shares and Shareholders

A shareholders' agreement document on a white desk.

What is a shareholders’ agreement and why do I need one?

Shares and Shareholders

Share certificate on desktop with pen and pair of spectacles - a document you would receive if had shares in a company.

What does it mean to have shares in a company?

Shares and Shareholders

Three tall glasses filled with water, with differing amounts of lemon concentrate added, illustrating the concept of pre-emption rights as a strategy to prevent the dilution of members' shareholdings.

Pre-emption rights – the key to maintaining your shareholdings

Shares and Shareholders

A stack of three A, B and C alphabet blocks with turquoise background - symbolising the concept of multiple share classes.

Why do companies use multiple share classes?

Shares and Shareholders

Image of company share certificate with the headline 'Paid or Unpaid'.

Company shares – paid, unpaid and partly paid

Shares and Shareholders

iPad displaying Quality Company Formations' Transfer of Shares Service page.

How to transfer company shares

Shares and Shareholders

Image of Companies House form SH01, the Return of allotment of shares, and the J30 Stock transfer form lying on a desk. One or both of these forms may be required when you add company shareholders after incorporation.

How to add company shareholders

Shares and Shareholders

Two business people sitting at a desk whilst reviewing documents.

Understanding limited company shares