CPD/CPT Course:
An Overview of the
Companies Ordinance
(Cap.622) 2017

Belinda Wong is the author of Hong Kong Company Secretary Checklist and Hong Kong Company Secretary’s Practice Manual published by CCH Hong Kong, a Wolters Kluwer business and has written a number of articles which had been published in overseas newspapers and portals.

Currently Director of Leader Corporate Services Limited, having previously worked at big audit and larger international law firms namely, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, DLA Piper Hong Kong, and King and Wood, Hong Kong for more than 25 years.  Having extensive experience in serving local, multi-national, non-profit and listed companies, Belinda Wong is an expert in dealing with all types of company secretarial work including corporate restructuring, merger and acquisitions, business transfer, etc.  She also provides pro bon services to charities.

Fellow Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors, Associate Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries as well as the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute.  Holder of a Master Degree in Business Administration (University of Strathclyde, UK) and a Bachelor Degree in Social Sciences (Chinese University of Hong Kong).

• Companies
1. Incorporation
2. Types of companies
3. Unlimited company vs. limited company with share capital
4. Conversion of companies from one type to another
5. Company limited by guarantee
6. Charity vs. social enterprise
• Officers
1. Manager/Company Secretary/Directors
2. Duties and liabilities
3. Appointment/resignation/termination of office
• Changes subsequent to incorporation
1. Company name
2. Business scope
3. Change of registered office address
• Share Capital
1. Amalgamation of companies
2. Repurchase of shares out of capital
3. Financial assistance
4. Redenomination of share capital
• Meetings
1. Directors meeting
2. Annual general meeting
• Accounts and audit
1. Primary accounting reference date
2. Reporting exemption
3. Appointment, resignation and removal of directors
• Statutory registers
• Dormant company
• Dissolution of companies
1. De-registration
2. Striking off
• Non-Hong Kong companies
1. Registration and dissolution