All Purpose Law Blog
A personal blog destined to explore, comment and review all legal issues in the Dominican Republic.
Friday, March 4, 2011
A new Ammendment to the Company Law in the DR
Come back soon as I´ll be posting my thoughts on the new law.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Societies of Limited Responsibilities and Individual Enterprises of Limited Responsibilities
- Number of partners: minimum two (2) and maximum of fifty (50)
- Social denomination: a fantasy name can be used or a trade name that will have to be preceded or followed by the words “Society of Limited Responsibilities” or the initials “SRL”. If this indication is omitted the partners will be jointly responsible in front of third parties.
- Capital: the social capital will be divided in social contributions/shares that can’t be represented by negotiable titles. They shall be constituted with a minimum of One Hundred Thousand Dominican Pesos (RD$100,000.00). The Secretariat of State of Industry and Commerce will adjust by regulations every three (3) years, the minimum and maximum amounts of social capital, as well as the minimum of contributions/shares, in accordance with the consumer price index published by the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic as reference index.
- Assignment and Transmission of Social: the cession of social shares among partners, between ascendants and descendants, and their transmission by succession or common wealth liquidation between husband and wife, will be free, unless statutory stipulations to the contrary. The cession of social shares to third parties outside the society will require the consent of the majority of the partners that represent by at least three quarters (3/4) parts of the social shares. If the cession is not approved, the partners will have to proportionally acquire them, in accordance with the procedures established by Law.
- Accounts Commissioner: its not obligatory, however, can be designated if at the closing of the last social exercise, the society, reports a total balance equal or superior to 5 times its social capital or an amount of profit equal or higher to 2/3 parts of the social capital, before the tax deductions. Also the partners that represent 1/10 of the social capital will always be able to demand in referral the designation of an account commissioner.
- Administration of the Society: the SRL will be managed by one or more managers that will have to be Physical persons, partners or not. In front of third parties, the manager(s) will be invested with the amplest powers to act, in all the circumstances, in the name of the society, subject to the powers that the law attributes specifically to the partners. The society will be compromised by the acts and doings of the manager or managers even if this are not related to the social object, unless that is proven that the third party had knowledge that the acts or doings were foreign to the social object or that he could not ignore it under the circumstances.
- Assemblies Partners: the decisions will be taken in assembly. Nevertheless, the statutes will be able to stipulate that all decisions or some of them be adopted by written consultation or by consent of all the partners contained in a minute with or without the necessity of an actual meeting.
- Also the vote of the partners will be able to be pronounced through any electronic or digital means. Unless in occasion of the approval of the report of annual management (Article 110), and in case the celebration of the assembly is required by one or several partners who are titular at least of half (½) of the social contributions/shares or that constitute the quarter (¼) of the partners and simultaneously are proprietors of the quarter (¼) of the social quotas/contributions (article 112).
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Simple Limited Companies and Limited Stock Partnerships
- Number of partners: Minimum of two (2)
- Trade name: will be made of the names of one or more joint partners, followed by the words “and Company” or equivalents, if in it does not mention the name of all the joint partners. The words “Limited Partnership” or the abbreviation “S. in C.”
- Capital: will be established in the Social Contract. The contributions of the joint partners will always be in nature or in cash.
- Cession of social parts: the social parts can only be yielded with the approval of all the partners, unless admitted stipulations in the social statutes.
- Accounts commissioner: its designation it not obligatory. The faculties of internal inspection and supervision of the society will be executed by the joint partners.
- Administration: the appointment of the manager will be by majority of all the partners, unless there is a clause to the contrary in the social statutes. The joint partners can’t be managers, representatives or occasional leaders of the company.
- Number of silent Partners: minimum, three (3) - general partners: minimum, one (1).
- Trade Name: composed by the name of one or several partners followed by the words “and company” or its abbreviation if in it were not displayed the names of the general partners.
- Capital: will be divided in shares. Will be established in the social statutes.
- Accounts Commissioner: the designation of one or several accounts commissioners is obligatory. In addition, a supervision counsel will be named composed by at least three (3) limited partners in accordance with the statutes, for permanent control of the management of the society.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Collecttive Name Societies and the New Company Law
Collective Name Societies
- Number of shareholders: Minimum of two (2)
- Trade name: has to be made of the name of one or more partners followed by the words “and Company” or its abbreviation, if in it did not mention the name of all the partners.
- Capital: will be established in the Social Statutes
- Cession of social parts: unanimous approval of the partners is required
- Accounts commissioner: its designation it not obligatory
- Administration: all partners will be managers, unless otherwise stipulated in the statutes, that can designate one or several managers, partners or not, or stipulate the designation by latter act.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Joint-Stock Societies and the New Company Law
Joint-Stock Societies.
- Number of shareholders: Minimum of two (2)
- Social Denomination: will be formed freely by a fantasy name, necessarily followed by the words “Joint-Stock Company” or its Abbreviation “S. A.” (for spanish "sociedad anonima")
- Minimum Capital: of Thirty Million Dominican Pesos (RD$30,000.00), of which a minimum of ten percent (10%) will have to be subscribed and paid. The minimum amount could be fit by the Industrial and Commercial State Secretariat each three (3) years in accordance with the consumer’s price index published by the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic.
- Increases in Capital. In the increases of capital the shareholders Hill have the right of proportional preferential subscription to the quantity of their stocks in the capital subscribed and paid. This right of preferential subscription could be renounce to or transferable.
- Accounts Commissioner. Each Joint-Stock Company will be supervised by one or several accounts commissioners designated by general assembly of shareholders; they will be physical people. They should have the quality of certified public accountant with at least three (3) years of experience in Company Audits, and could be or not be shareholders. The accounts commissioners will have a permanent mission, with exclusion of all management interference, verify the values and accounting documents of the society and control the conformity with the accounting rules in effect. Will also verify the sincerity and concordance with the annual accounts of the Administration Counsel Report and the documents delivered to the shareholders about the financial situation and said annual accounts.
- The accounts commissioners are subject to a strict regime of incapacitation provided in the articles 211 and 243 to the 245, both inclusive.
- Administration of the Society. The joint-stock company will be administrated by an administration counsel made of at least three (3) members. The physical persons that execute at the same time more than five (5) administrative mandates of any kind of commercial society cannot be administrators to a joint-stock company.
- The Administrative Counsel will chose amongst its members a president, who will be a physical person, under penalty of nullity of the designation.
- When a moral person is designated as administrator it will by obliged to name a permanent representative, who will be subject to the same conditions and obligations and will bear the same civil and penal responsibilities that would have if he was administrators in his own behalf, notwithstanding the share responsibility of the moral person he represents.
- The articles 28, 29, 227 and 228 of the Law establish a regime of fiduciary obligations of the social management.
- The shareholders Assemblies: in the Joint-Stock Companies of Private Subscription, the resolutions of the assemblies can be adopted in minutes subscribed by all shareholders without the need of an actual meeting. Also the vote can be manifested by means of any electronic or digital resource. Both circumstances will have to be expressly indicated in the minutes issued to the effect.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
New Business Law in the Dominican Republic
The new Commercial Societies and Individual Enterprises of Limited Responsibilities General Law (Law No. 479-08), substitutes and derogates the Third Title in the Commercial Code that is in effect, that includes the articles 18 to the 64 regarding the Commercial Societies.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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