Dr Saleem Sheikh trained as a Solicitor in the City working for some leading law firms specialising initially in commercial property and later in company commercial. He later worked in the Middle East specialising in international company commercial laws, undertaking joint venture work; shareholders’ agreements’ takeovers and mergers; MBOs; MBIs; franchising; sponsorship; intellectual property; service agreements; management agreements; commercial terms and conditions; consultancy agreements; due diligence in connection with acquisitions; establishing companies internationally; gas agreements; commercial property work including business tenancies; landlord and tenant; sale of business as a going concern; assignment leases and goodwill; and commercial property development.

During the 1990s. Dr Sheikh developed a particular interest in corporate social responsibilities and international corporate governance, and made effective representations to the Cadbury Committee, Greenbury Committee and the Higgs Committee on various corporate governance issues, which led to the Combined Code.

Dr Sheikh conducted his doctoral research on comparative legal aspects of corporate social responsibilities and spent some time at Harvard University

Dr Sheikh has also lectured extensively on continuing professional development courses both nationally and internationally.

He is the editor of Sweet and Maxwell’s International Company Commercial Law Review.

Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Reader

• Dr Sheikh is currently writing a major text book on company law which will be an annual publication. The target audience will be academics, practitioners, directors, company secretaries and students. It will set out legal aspects of company law supported by checklists, forms and useful practical precedents

Papers, Publications, Lecturing and Research:

Books

• Corporate Governance and Corporate Control:Dr Saleem Sheikh and ProfessorWilliam Rees - Cavendish Publishing Ltd (1995)
• Corporate Social Responsibilities: Law and Practice - Cavendish Publishing Ltd (1995)
• Business Law and Practice Transaction Guide - Cavendish Publishing Ltd (2001)
• Corporate Finance: Law and Practice - Butterworths (November 2002)
• A Practical Approach to Corporate Governance, Butterworths, (January 2003
• A Guide to the Companies Act 2006 - Taylor & Francis (February 2008)
• Company Law (Forthcoming Annual Publication) (Bloomsbury Professional)                                                

Publications and Research 

Articles

1. The Social Charter - The Law Society Gazette (4/11/1989) p.14
2. Judicial Policy on Corporate Giving - The Law Society Gazette (4/7/1990) p.16
3. Takeovers and Mergers - [1989] 3 The Link 14
4. Corporate Governance and Corporate Control: Self-Regulation or Statutory Codification? - [1992] 11 ICCLR 370
5. Pressure of Work - The Law Society Gazette (15/3/95) p.18
6. Company Law Review - The LawApplicable to Private Companiesin the United Kingdom - [1995] 4 ICCLR 119
7. The Greenbury Report:Fond Hope, Faint Promise? - [1995] 11 JIBL 471
8. Company Law - Directors’ Remuneration - [1995] 7 ICCLR 88
9. Corporate Governance: Reflections on the American Law Institute Report - [1995] 7 ICCLR 254
10. Company Law Developments in 1995 - [1996] 7 ICCLR 39
11. UK Company Law Reform: Towards:A 21st Century Corporate Revolution - [1996] 7 ICCLR 119
12. Curbing Top Pay Bonanza - [1995] The Company Lawyer 40
13. Flexing Shareholder Muscle - [1996] 7 ICCLR p.1
14. Shareholder Remedies - [1997] 8 ICCLR 47
15. Company Law Developments in 1996 - [1997] 8 ICCLR 84
16. Code of Practice on Equal Pay:Legal and Practical Implications - [1997] 8 ICCLR 1
17. Corporate Governance - [1998] 9 ICCLR 1
18. Partnership Reform: Legal andPractical Implications - [2001] Vol 12 ICCLR Issue 3 pp89-100
19. Employee Consultation RightsBill - [2001] Vol 12 ICCLR Issue 5 pp.143-150
20. Changes to the Listing Rules - [2001] Vol 12 ICCLR Issue 9 pp222-229
21. Company Law for the 21st Century:Part 1 - [2001] 12 ICCLR pp311-325
22. Company Law for the 21st Century:Part 2 - [2002] 13 ICCLR pp88-97
23. Company Law for the 21st Century:Part 3 - [2002] 13 ICCLR pp103-112
24. Promoting Corporate SocialResponsibilities Within the EuropeanUnion - [2002] 13 ICCLR pp143-150
25. Company Investigations: Powers For the 21st Century - [2002] 13 ICCLR pp.228-232
26. Limited Partnerships Act 1907:Time for Reform - [2002] The Company Lawyer Vol 23 no 6 June pp.179-18
27. A Modern Framework for EC Company law - 2002] Company Lawyer
28. Corporate Manslaughter and CorporateHomicide Bill - [2007] ICCLR
29. The Corporation: Villain or Victim? [2008] ICCLR pp.348-354
30. The Bribery Act 2010 – Commercial Organisations Beware [2010] ICCLR

Presentation of Papers

1. Corporate Governance: International Dimensions (Cambridge University) [1996]
2. International Business Law: Malaysia Bar Council [1997]
3. Corporate Finance: Legal and Practical Implications: Singapore Bar Council [1997]
4. Individual Employment Rights: Company Secretaries Conference [1997]
5. Company Law: Tolleys Conference (1998)
6. Employment Law Conference: Tolleys Conference (1998)
7. Malaysia and Singapore Bar Councils (1998)
8. Conference on Company Directors Disqualification (1998)
9. Conference on Company Law for the Property Lawyer (1998)
10. Conference on Company Law Update (1998)
11. Conferences on Money laundering and Fraud (1999); and Company Law for the In-House Lawyer (1999)
12. Company Law Update (Butterworth’s) (2000)
13. Corporate Governance: Law and Practice (Butterworth’s) (2002)
14. Company Law Update (Butterworth’s) (2002)
15. Corporate Governance and Control (Butterworth’s) (2003)
16. Company Law Update (Sweet & Maxwell) (2004)
17. Corporate Control and Codes of Practice (2005, Cambridge)

Lectures previously presented to solicitors for continuing education courses

1. Best Practice
2. Professional Development
3. Professional Skills Course
4. Time Management
5. Managing People, Time and Resources
6. Company Law Updates
7. Employment Law Updates
8. Stress Management
9. Venture Capital
10. Client Care
11. Insolvency Law Updates
12. Directors’ Duties
13. Executive Legal Secretary
14. Acquisitions of private companies
15. Flotations – Blue Book and Listing Rules
16. Insolvency Law Updates
17. Restraint of Trade and Confidentiality
18. Advising the Public Company Client
19. Management Buy-outs
20. Corporate Finance
21. Shares and Share Capital
22. Shareholders’ Agreements
23. Service Agreements
24. Financial Services