Anonymity of shareholders and the associated degree of transparency of the joint- stock company belongs in the field of company law among the most debated issues. Especially in light of the necessary fight againstmoney laundering and financing of global terrorism European legislaton creates extensive modification of the terms which are targeted on uncovering the identity of genuine owners of joint-stock companies. Czech Republic is obliged to transpose these terms into czech law. From this perspective, it is a very dynamic subject that is rapidly evolving and is not analyzed comprehensively. Work is primarily devoted to the description of the institutes in czech private law, which allow to maintain the anonymity of shareholders and degree of their possible identification. The thesis contains also the characteristics of selected public law acts in which is presented strong public interest on the identification of beneficial owners of corporations. The thesis also reflects upcoming changes that will in the near future modify the position of shareholders and their potential unfolding. The first two chapters focus on the brief description of the historical development of the concept of shareholders anonymity and the terms of their identification. The second chapterfocuses on the enactment of theBearer...

- The course of general meetings of a joint-stock company The topic of this thesis is the course of general meetings of a joint-stock company. A joint stock-company is a limited company (a stock corporation), that means a company when membership in this company is connected with the obligation of investment contribution, either monetary or non-monetary, and that upon its formation, or when increasing its registered capital. The supreme body of a joint-stock company is the general meeting. The general meeting is a compulsory formed body regardless of the internal system of joint-stock companies, no matter if it is a monistic or dualistic board structure joint-stock company. With regard to the fact that it is compulsory, it is evident that the general meeting plays an important role in the functioning of the company itself. Within this thesis attention is also devoted to situations which are closely related to the course of general meetings. These are situations that precede general meetings, e.g. convening, and also situations after their closing. Within this thesis is also partly compared current legislation relating to joint stock companies, Act No. 90/2012 Sb., law on business corporations and cooperatives, with the previous related legislation, that means Act No. 513/1991 Sb., the Commercial...

The course of a general meeting of a joint-stock company The primary goal of the following diploma thesis is to comprehensively analyse the topic in question after the recent recodification of the Czech private law. The author aims to evaluate the current legal state of the course of a general meeting of a joint-stock company by studying multiple relevant sources, outlining the most important legal aspects and reviewing some of the frequently academically discussed contemporary issues and topics. Primarily the author aims to accomplish that by thoroughly studying and examining the newest legal doctrine and some of the most important existing judicial decisions. Systematically the thesis consists of four main chapters. The first chapter contains the general introduction of the matter and a legal definition of a joint-stock company while mainly focusing on its structure and bodies. The second chapter is divided into two parts and generally focuses on the matter of participation and the legal representation on a general meeting. The first part of the chapter highlights the legal reasons of why and by whom the general meeting of a joint-stock company can be convened. The author then defines and discusses all its possible participants in the following part of the chapter. The third chapter is devoted to...

My master thesis deals with the position of members of the board of directors in a joint-stock company. The focus of this thesis is to deliver a complete overview of information on members of the board of directors of a joint-stock company and other aspects related to the performance of this function. The entire thesis is divided into six chapters, where the first chapter deals with the board of directors and its role in a company. Followed by a chapter on a sole fuctioning of a member of the board of directors. Subsequently the thesis deals with the agreement on performance, which steadily continues in the definition of rights and duties of members of the board of directors. Significant part of this work is dedicated to the sphere of action of the board of directors and the responsibility of its members.

Codetermination and its regulation in Czech legal order Abstract This thesis deals with codetermination and its regulation in the Czech legal system. The main goal of this thesis is to discover whether the current valid regulation enables companies to really utilise the benefits of codetermination, and alternatively under what circumstances it would. The thesis firstly analyses the advantages and disadvantages of codetermination. This analysis aims to determine the main purpose and function of codetermination, which is according to the author mainly improvement of communication and cooperation of the employees and the board, alternatively the management. The thesis focuses mainly on three fundamental aspects of codetermination, them being the position of employees in the supervisory board, the appointment of employees in the supervisory board and sub- sequently the termination of the function in the supervisory board. The thesis takes into account both companies' and employees' point of view. Czech regulation does not take into account the special position of the employees in the supervisory board, whereby there's often a conflict of interests. The chapters regarding the appointment and termina- tion of the function point out that it is possible for the company to influence the members of the supervisory...

Specificity of joint stock companies with state property interest Abstract This diploma thesis focuses on state-owned stock companies. This thesis aims to focus purely on stock companies with only short introductions to other forms of state ownership of corporations. The goal is to identify state as a legal entity and also as a shareholder. The other goals are an analysis of obligation to provide information and lastly a brief analysis of some other specifics when it comes to state-owned stock companies. The first part dealing with the identification of the state aims to sufficiently isolate stock companies from other possible state-owned corporations, while interpreting the relevant legal provisions combined with relevant court decisions. The second part focuses in detail on the obligation to provide information of state- owned stock companies. The goal is to analyze the relevant decisions of the Czech Constitutional Court in relation to the Act on freedom of information. Other chapters of this part focus on obligation to provide information in relation to Act on public procurement and to Act on the contract register . This second part heavily relies on judicial practice of both national and EU institutions. The third part deals with certain other specifics, which relate to state-owned stock companies....

1 The Instruments of Protecting Creditors of the Joint Stock Company Abstract The aim of submitted thesis is to analyse those instruments of the business corporations law that have a purpose to ensure a certain level of creditor protection in relation to the joint stock company as a typical representative of a capital company. The key characteristic of this form of a business company is a limited (or more precisely de facto excluded) liability of shareholders for its debts and a strict application of a separate ownership principle. On the one hand, this fact leads to its use for important business projects, but on the other hand, it also increases a probability of moral hazard by shareholders in some situations, which is contrary to interests of creditors. This is connected especially with a distribution of sources by a joint stock company to its shareholders. Instruments applied by a business corporations law are able to react to the riskiest situations and they also have a preventative character. Categorization of these instruments is a part of an introduction to this thesis together with a classification of creditors, which form a heterogenous group with different power and particular interests. The attention is also paid to some general instruments as information duties of business companies to third...

1 Název, abstrakt a klíčová slova v anglickém jazyce Classes of Shares in Limited Liability Companies Abstract The Business Corporations Act has brought a number of innovations to Czech company law and has also opened up questions that almost no-one raised while the previous legal regulation was effective. Although many institutes already existed under the Civil Code of 1964 and the Commercial Code, the practice did not use the possibilities provided by the old regulation. Indeed, even the legal doctrine did not address many issues. One of these institutes is the institute of classes of shares. The dissertation is devoted to the creation of different classes of shares. The main research methods used when drafting this dissertation were selective literature research and analytical method, including comparative analysis. The method of abstraction and synthesis of acquired pieces of knowledge was used for generalizing the conclusions of the research goal. As regards the interpretation methods, a grammatical, logical, systematic, historical, teleological and comparative interpretation was used. Especially German, but also Austrian and Swiss laws were taken into account in the comparison and Anglo-American law in the passage concerning preference shares. The main research goal of the thesis was to analyse the...

Specificity of joint stock companies with state property interest Abstract This diploma thesis focuses on state-owned stock companies. This thesis aims to focus purely on stock companies with only short introductions to other forms of state ownership of corporations. The goal is to identify state as a legal entity and also as a shareholder. The other goals are an analysis of obligation to provide information and lastly a brief analysis of some other specifics when it comes to state-owned stock companies. The first part dealing with the identification of the state aims to sufficiently isolate stock companies from other possible state-owned corporations, while interpreting the relevant legal provisions combined with relevant court decisions. The second part focuses in detail on the obligation to provide information of state- owned stock companies. The goal is to analyze the relevant decisions of the Czech Constitutional Court in relation to the Act on freedom of information. Other chapters of this part focus on obligation to provide information in relation to Act on public procurement and to Act on the contract register . This second part heavily relies on judicial practice of both national and EU institutions. The third part deals with certain other specifics, which relate to state-owned stock companies....

In the 2005 year the companies of the small and average business amounted up to 99,4 percentage of the all Lithuanian companies, they were engaged the 69,7 percentage of all Lithuanian staff and produced about 68,2 percentage of all Lithuanian surplus value. All the companies dependent on the market’s competition, taxes, technological advances, quality’s and environment’s rules, the changes of the laws, but the small and average companies differ from the gross companies, because they cannot reach these effects, similar to gross companies, and the small and average companies usually can only work in the market as gross companies’ partners. The main aim of the master work is to analyze the theoretical aspects of the activity of the small and average companies, besides to analize the main indicators of the small and average companies in Lithuania in the period of 2001 -2004 years (their structure, wages, size, financial rates and so on) and to analyze their taxation in 2005 year.