A step-by-step pack for a private company buying back its own shares from a shareholder out of distributable profits – checklist, reserves calculation, board minutes, written special resolution, buy-back contract and filing checklist.
Company secretarial
Share Buy-Back Pack (Off-Market Purchase of Own Shares)
About this document
A company buying back its own shares must follow strict rules in the Companies Act 2006. If any step is missed the buy-back can be void, which can cause serious problems later – for example when the company is sold. This pack sets out the correct order of steps for the most common route: an off-market purchase from an individual shareholder, paid in full out of distributable profits.
The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.
Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.
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