Legal aspects regarding the increase of the capital of a joint-stock company and a limited liability company

In the business world, certain needs of the company may impose the necessity to increase its capital. These needs may consist either in the desire of the partners to develop the company’s activity, either to remove certain financial difficulties. The modalities and procedures for increasing the capital are regulated by Law no. 31/1990 on companies, having various particularities and immediate effects.

The current paper, therefore, aims in presenting these methods and their particularities, both from a theoretical and practical point of view, in a comparative way, for the joint-stock companies and the limited liability companies, as the most frequently existing types of company in Romanian law.