1. The Corporation Code
a. Corporation, defined
b. Classification of corporations
c. Nationality of corporations
(1) Control test
(2) Grandfather rule
d. Corporate juridical personality
(1) Doctrine of separate juridical personality
(a) Liability for tort and crimes
(b) Recovery of damages
(2) Doctrine of piercing the corporate veil
(a) Grounds for application of doctrine
(b) Test in determining applicability
e. Capital structure
(1) Number and qualifications of incorporators
(2) Minimum capital stock and subscription requirements
(3) Corporate term
(4) Classification of shares
f. Incorporation and organization
(1) Promoter
(a) Liability of promoter
(b) Liability of corporation for promoter’s contracts
(2) Subscription contract
(3) Pre-incorporation subscription agreements
(4) Consideration for stocks
(5) Articles of Incorporation
(a) Contents
(b) Non-amendable items
(6) Corporate name -- limitations on use of corporate name
(7) Registration and issuance of Certificate of Incorporation
(8) Election of directors or trustees
(9) Adoption of By-Laws
(a) Requisites of valid by-laws
(b) Binding effects
(c) Amendments
g. Corporate powers
(1) General powers, theory of general capacity
(2) Specific powers, theory of specific capacity
(a) Power to extend or shorten corporate term
(b) Power to increase or decrease capital stock or incur, create, increase bonded indebtedness
(c) Power to deny pre-emptive rights
(d) Power to sell or dispose of corporate assets
(e) Power to acquire own shares
(f) Power to invest corporate funds in another corporation or business
(g) Power to declare dividends
(h) Power to enter into management contract
(i) Ultra vires acts
i. Applicability of ultra vires doctrine
ii. Consequences of ultra vires acts
(j) Doctrine of individuality of subscription
(k) Doctrine of equality of shares
(l) Trust fund doctrine
(3) How exercised
(a) By the shareholders
(b) By the Board of Directors
(c) By the Officers
h. Stockholders and members
(1) Fundamental rights of a stockholder
(2) Participation in management
(a) Proxy
(b) Voting trust
(c) Cases when stockholders’ action is required
i. By a majority vote
ii. By a two-thirds vote
iii. By cumulative voting
(3) Proprietary rights
(a) Right to dividends
(b) Right of appraisal
(c) Right to inspect
(d) Preemptive right
(e) Right to vote
(f) Right to dividends
(4) Remedial rights
(a) Individual suit
(b) Representative suit
(c) Derivative suit
(5) Obligation of a stockholder
(6) Meetings
(a) Regular or special
i. When and where
ii. Notice
(b) Who calls the meetings
(c) Quorum
(d) Minutes of meetings
i. Board of directors and trustees
(1) Repository of corporate powers
(2) Tenure, qualifications and disqualifications of directors
(3) Elections
(a) Cumulative voting
(b) Quorum
(4) Removal
(5) Filling of vacancies
(6) Compensation
(7) Disloyalty
(8) Business judgment rule
(9) Solidary liabilities for damages
(10) Liability for watered stocks
(11) Personal liabilities
(12) Responsibility for crimes
(13) Special fact doctrine
(14) Inside information
(15) Contracts
(a) By self-dealing directors with the corporation
(b) Between corporations with interlocking directors
(16) Executive committee
(a) Creation
(b) Limitations on its powers
(17) Meetings
(a) Regular or special
i. When and where
ii. Notice
(b) Who presides
(c) Quorum
(d) Rule on abstention
j. Capital affairs
(1) Certificate of stock
(a) Nature of the certificate
(b) Uncertificated shares
(c) Negotiability
i. Requirements for valid transfer of stocks
(d) Issuance
i. Full payment
ii. Payment pro-rata
(e) Stock and transfer book
i. Contents
ii. Who may make valid entries
(f) Lost or destroyed certificates
(g) Situs of the shares of stock
(2) Watered stocks
(a) Definition
(b) Liability of directors for watered stocks
(c) Trust fund doctrine for liability for watered stocks
(3) Payment of balance of subscription
(a) Call by board of directors
(b) Notice requirement
(4) Sale of delinquent shares
(a) Effect of delinquency
(b) Call by resolution of the board of directors
(c) Notice of sale
(d) Auction sale
(5) Alienation of shares
(a) Allowable restrictions on the sale of shares
(b) Sale of partially paid shares
(c) Sale of a portion of shares not fully paid
(d) Sale of all of shares not fully paid
(e) Sale of fully paid shares
(f) Requisites of a valid transfer
(g) Involuntary dealings
k. Dissolution and liquidation
(1) Modes of dissolution
(a) Voluntary
i. Where no creditors are affected
ii. Where creditors are affected
iii. By shortening of corporate term
(b) Involuntary
i. By expiration of corporate term
ii. Failure to organize and commence business within 2 years from incorporation
iii. Legislative dissolution
iv. Dissolution by the SEC on grounds under existing laws
(2) Methods of liquidation
(a) By the corporation itself
(b) Conveyance to a trustee within a 3-year period
(c) By management committee or rehabilitation receiver
(d) Liquidation after three years
l. Other corporations
(1) Close corporations
(a) Characteristics of a close corporation
(b) Validity of restrictions on transfer of shares
(c) Issuance or transfer of stock in breach of qualifying conditions
(d) When board meeting is unnecessary or improperly held
(e) Preemptive right
(f) Amendment of articles of incorporation
(g) Deadlocks
(2) Non-stock corporations
(a) Definition
(b) Purposes
(c) Treatment of profits
(d) Distribution of assets upon dissolution
(3) Religious corporations
(a) Corporation sole
i. Nationality
ii. Religious societies
(4) Foreign corporations
(a) Bases of authority over foreign corporations
i. Consent
ii. Doctrine of "doing business" (relate to definition under the Foreign Investments Act, RA 7042)
(b) Necessity of a license to do business
i. Requisites for issuance of a license
ii. Resident agent
(c) Personality to sue
(d) Suability of foreign corporations
(e) Instances when unlicensed foreign corporations may be allowed to sue - Isolated transactions
(f) Grounds for revocation of license
m. Merger and consolidation
(1) Definition and concept
(2) Constituent v. consolidated corporation
(3) Plan of merger or consolidation
(4) Articles of merger or consolidation
(5) Procedure
(6) Effectivity
(7) Limitations
(8) Effects
