Constitutive documents

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Those formal bits and bobs that make your corporate personality flesh and blood: usually a certificate of incorporation, memorandum and articles of association or, in more modern corporations, a constitution and for good order a certificate of good standing. For fund entities it will usually generally include its information memorandum and investment management agreement even though neither, strictly speaking, play any kind of metaphysical role in converting your stack of pointless paper into a real boy.