Course Details

Accountants advising private company clients will benefit from this study of recent company law disputes in the courts – the factors that caused them, what those involved could or should have spotted and done to avoid them, and what to advise your clients to make sure they don’t get caught out in the future too.


David Impey covers the following topics during this session:


•          Unlawful and backdated dividends, and payment timing tricks

•          Arguments about constitutions

•          Directors' duties – beware evolving circumstances

•          The risks for directors in ‘standing by’ and ‘wilful blindness’

•          Falsifying records and registers – be on guard

•          De facto directorships, including those that creep up on you

•          Shares in limbo – when chancers take advantage

•          Climate change fails and directors' duties – they’re coming to get you

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CPD Course Speaker

Company Law Solicitor

David Impey

David Impey is a company law solicitor, professional services marketer, writer, and lecturer. His specialities include company law, professional services marketing, strategic planning and implementation, and interactive e-marketing.

As well as specialising in company law, David also works with law firms and other law businesses, helping them with strategy, and marketing, and majoring particularly on overcoming barriers to implementation of strategic and marketing plans and tactics

From 2008 to 2014, he led and worked on a major project for the UK Intellectual Property Office, through Atom Content Marketing (formerly BHP), building and developing an online IP HealthCheck resource that helps small and medium-sized businesses to identify, protect and commercially exploit their intellectual property.

He also worked in-house for 14 fun and profitable years for leading services provider Jordans, becoming Marketing Director responsible for developing, managing and marketing its service and product range. Particularly, he led significant projects to commoditise UK and overseas ‘factory’ professional services and promote them into the UK and other legal markets.

David lectures in the UK and overseas on both UK company law and professional services firm strategy and marketing.