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Verkhovna Rada Adopted the Law “On Limited Liability Companies and Additional Liability Companies”

Published: 14/02/2018 | news

The Verkhovna Rada supported on second reading and in general the law “On Limited Liability Companies and Additional Liability Companies” (No. 4666) with technical and legal amendments. According to the Interfax-Ukraine Agency, 285 people’s deputies voted for the document. As the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Policy Andrey Ivanchuk (the fraction “People’s Front”) has noted, presenting the law in the parliament, now this issue is regulated by the legislation adopted back in 1991. At the same time, according to the words of the official, limited liability company is the most popular type of Ukrainian companies, and today there are more than half a million of them. Andrey Ivanchuk also added that regarding the law No. 4666, they received 503 amendments on second reading, 360 of which were taken into account. The law provides that the value of the LLC’s share is established as of the day before the meeting of the LLC members, at which the decision to exclude the member from the LLC was made. The transitional provisions of the document also contain the provisions for the compulsory acquisition of a share by a...

The register of data on beneficiaries of Hong Kong companies will be non-public

Published: 01/09/2017 | news

On June 23, 2017, the official government publication of Hong Kong published a draft amendment in the Ordinance on the companies (Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017). One of the changes it covered was the introduction of a requirement for the companies registered in Hong Kong to collect, store and provide up-to-date information on their beneficiaries for the verification. This refers to the so-called "Registers of people with significant control over the companies". This innovation was adopted within the framework of the international policy on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism and it is designed to bring the corporate jurisdiction legislation in the line with the standards of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering. By analogy with the definition given by the FATF, in anti-laundering legislation of Hong Kong, "significant controllers" are defined as individuals and legal entities that: directly or indirectly own more than 25% of the company's shares; directly or indirectly have more than 25% of the voting rights of the company; directly or indirectly have the right to appoint or remove the majority of the members of the company's board of...