Pre-incorporation contract: A comparative analysis of the Canadian and Nigerian corporate law regimes
- 18 June 2021
- journal article
- Published by Virtus Interpress in Corporate Law and Governance Review
- Vol. 3 (1), 29-42
- https://doi.org/10.22495/clgrv3i1p3
Abstract
The question of how best to protect the interests of a promoter, a third party, and a company in pre-incorporation contracts is one that seems to have defied corporate law. Although this problem has its origin in common law, various countries have made efforts to address it through statutory reforms. The paper, therefore, examines the extent to which the Canadian and Nigerian legal regimes for the pre-incorporation contract have provided panaceas to the problem. This paper, through a comparative analysis, argues that although the legal regimes have made efforts to reform the common law rule on pre-incorporation contracts, they suffer patent defects. It also posits that notwithstanding the defects in the laws, the Canadian legal regimes offer more protection to parties to pre-incorporation contracts than Nigerian law. The paper suggests reforms in both regimes that would meet the reasonable expectations of the parties to a pre incorporation contractKeywords
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