1 Protection of company's creditors during liquidation Abstract This diploma thesis deals with the protection of creditors, which the legal legislation provides them during liquidation. This issue remains important even after the recodification of private law, because new legislation has not removed all weaknesses in the protection of creditors. The thesis is divided into five chapters. Objective of these chapters is to cover most of the instruments that protect creditors throughout the liquidation process and after its ending. The first chapter is dedicated to the liquidator, who is the key person of the liquidation process. This chapter also involves a list of his rights and duties. That provides an overview of the protection of creditors during liquidation and the next parts of diploma thesis describe these rights and duties in detail. The second chapter delves into the instruments of protection which are associated with the beginning of liquidation. The third chapter deals with a protection of creditors during the whole process. In particular it deals with payment of the company's debts and includes the analysis of specific groups of creditors. Afterwards, effects of entry into the liquidations are described. The last part of the third chapter reflects documents which need to be drafted at the end of...

in English The thesis deals with the protection of creditors during the liquidation of a company, under the new legislation, effective since 1st January 2014. Although the previous legislation was considered accurate and to a large extent has been adopted in the current regulation, there are some differences to the benefit and detriment of creditor protection, which I highlight in each chapter. The aim of my thesis is to analyze the most important elements of protecting creditors in the liquidation process and after its completion, gradually from the general, to those that provide protection to the creditors of the specific claims, such protection evaluate and highlight possible problems that can endanger the satisfaction of creditor or make it completely impossible. Outside the introduction and conclusion, this thesis consists of three logically consecutive chapters, viewed from the perspective of the protection of creditors. The initial chapter has essentially definitional character needed to determine the scope of my work and therefore is as brief as possible. The first chapter deals with the term creditor, as a concept, defining the group of persons, on whose protection I am focused in my thesis and with the concept of liquidation process as a term for the cancellation of a company without...

Registered capital of a limited liability company Abstract This master thesis deals with the institution of the registered capital in a limited liability company, its meaning and its purpose. The aim of the master thesis is to evaluate the current legislation, to compare it with the adjustment of the registered capital in other countries (especially in Germany), as well as to propose its concrete improvements. The new legislation of the limited liability company is very different from the previous legislation; the abolition of the minimum registered capital is one change brought by the new legislation. This is the result, not the cause of questioning the registered capital as the creditor protection institute. The registered capital does not perform the guarantee function, because the regulation of the registered capital does not provide (and the neither did the previous Act) effective guarantees that the company will have funds corresponding to the amount of the registered capital after the establishment of the company as well as during the period of its existence. Other provisions concerning the actual creation and maintenance of the registered capital were (except, for instance, the registered capital test) preserved. This is positive, especially because of great number of companies that have...

The Companies Act 71 of 2008 (“2008 Companies Act”) will have far reaching effects on the manner in which a company is formed and operated under South African company law and in particular entrenches the procedure that must be followed by a company when acquiring its own shares. The radical amendment of the capital maintenance rules by the introduction of the solvency and liquidity tests to the Companies Act 61 of 1973 has been carried forward under the 2008 Companies Act. These tests impose an obligation on a company to ensure that the company is both solvent and liquid at the time of the acquisition of its own shares and for a stated period thereafter. The 2008 Companies Act further brings the duties and liabilities of the directors in line with their current fiduciary duties in terms of common law. / Mercantile Law / LLM

The Companies Act 71 of 2008 (“2008 Companies Act”) will have far reaching effects on the manner in which a company is formed and operated under South African company law and in particular entrenches the procedure that must be followed by a company when acquiring its own shares. The radical amendment of the capital maintenance rules by the introduction of the solvency and liquidity tests to the Companies Act 61 of 1973 has been carried forward under the 2008 Companies Act. These tests impose an obligation on a company to ensure that the company is both solvent and liquid at the time of the acquisition of its own shares and for a stated period thereafter. The 2008 Companies Act further brings the duties and liabilities of the directors in line with their current fiduciary duties in terms of common law. / Mercantile Law / LLM