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Insights

The obligation of directors to declare the absence of causes of ineligibility (in Italian)

February 21, 2022

Italy: New provisions of the Italian Civil Code have recently been adopted, introducing – inter alia – the obligation for candidates for appointment as members of the administrative body of a limited company (“società di capitali”) to declare that no grounds for ineligibility exist against them, nor any disqualification from acting as directors adopted against them in any country of the European Union.

10 things to consider if your organisation becomes involved in a public inquiry

February 15, 2022

United Kingdom: On 15 December 2021 the Prime Minister announced the COVID-19 public inquiry and appointed the Right Honourable Baroness Heather Hallett DBE as chair. The inquiry is likely to take evidence from a wide range of businesses.

The Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act is in force: practical steps for your not-for-profit corporation

October 19, 2021

Canada: “Better late than never” may be the most appropriate saying to describe the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (Ontario) (the ONCA or the Act), proclaimed on October 19, 2021. It has taken over 11 years for Bill 65, An Act to revise the law in respect of not-for-profit corporations, which was introduced by Parliament on May 12, 2010, to finally crystalize into the ONCA.

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