Course Details

The session will cover the rules around decision-making across shareholders and directors in privately owned companies. By attending this session accountants and other professional advisers can ensure they and their clients have a proper understanding of who can do what, to ensure any actions of the company have the appropriate authority behind them.


In this session, Aly Young will cover the following topics:

  • Board decisions
  • Shareholder decisions – ordinary and special resolutions
  • Ostensible authority
  • Importance of record-keeping
  • Changing the rules 


This session will be of most interest to anyone working with companies. 


Course level: Foundation / Intermediate 

(Would probably be useful to have a previous understanding of Company Act rules)

CPD Course Speaker

AY Business Law

Aly Young

Aly Young is a solicitor with 30 years’ experience of advising companies on legal issues.

She has previously worked as a GC in Plc’s and traditional law firms, also as a consultant. Since 2022 she has run her own law firm specializing in helping business owners prepare for and complete an exit strategy. Particularly focusing on exit through sale. She regularly delivers training sessions to business owners, finance, procurement and sales teams and fellow legal and other professionals, covering a wide range of business law issues.

Recognised for her ability to find simple solutions to apparently complex problems and is known for her no-nonsense approach.