Generally speaking, a company has three basic legal characteristics:
1. The company has legal personality. A legal person has the qualifications of an independent director, legal capacity and the capacity required by the legal subject, can engage in civil and commercial activities in its own name, and independently bear civil liability with its own property.
Second, the company is a community organization with the nature of a community. According to the different internal organizational basis of legal persons, legal persons can be divided into corporate legal persons and consortium legal persons, and companies belong to corporate legal persons.
Third, the company aims at profit and is profitable. The profit-making of a company is an important feature that distinguishes it from a non-profit legal person organization.
According to the different responsibilities of shareholders to the company, the company can be divided into the following five categories:
One is unlimited company. All shareholders are jointly and severally liable for the company's debts regardless of their capital contribution.
The second is a limited liability company. All shareholders shall be liable for the debts of the company to the extent of their capital contribution.
The third is joint venture. A company composed of shareholders of an unlimited liability company and shareholders of a limited liability company.
The fourth type is a company limited by shares. All the capital of the company is divided into equal shares, and all shareholders are liable for the debts of the company to the extent of their shares.
Fifth, joint-stock companies. A company composed of unlimited liability companies and shareholders of joint stock limited companies. This is a basic division. In addition, according to the different nationalities of companies, they can be divided into domestic companies, foreign companies and multinational companies; According to the different status of company law in the relationship between control and controlled, it can be divided into parent company and subsidiary company; According to the different status of the company in the jurisdictional relationship and the jurisdictional relationship, it can be divided into head office and branch office; Wait a minute.