Purchase of own shares

Sometimes it can be better to extract funds from your company or to acquire another company through an aquistion method known as ‘purchase of own shares’. In essence, you use the Company’s own cash to reduce the number of shares in issue and pay...

Reduction in share capital

Following on from our article on the purchase of own shares we thought it would be also useful to provide information for when you consider a reduction in share capital. In practice, this is a useful route when there is a takeover or change in shareholders and hence...