Written in a readable style, this book provides an account, and much-needed analysis, of minority shareholders rights and remedies under section 459 of the Companies Act 1985. In the study of minority shareholders rights, there has been a tendency to give inadequate attention to the remedies now available. This book take a new approach to the treatment of minority shareholders protection. Much of this book is devoted to a detailed study of the effectiveness of section 459 as a shareholders remedy. Commencing with an examination of the problems faced by a minority shareholder, the book goes on t.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Law - Civil / Private, Trade, Anti Trust Law, Business Law, grade: B+, Tsinghua University, language: English, abstract: The Company Law of the People’s Republic of China was revised in the year 2005. This paper analyses the protection of the minority shareholders under the new law.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Law - Civil / Private / Trade / Anti Trust Law / Business Law, grade: B+, Tsinghua University, language: English, abstract: The Company Law of the People's Republic of China was revised in the year 2005. This paper analyses the protection of the minority shareholders under the new law.

This title examines the main problems and difficulties which a minor shareholder may encounter. It discusses the manner in which pitfalls may be anticipated and avoided in advance; and the remedies for redress of grievances contained in the Companies Act 1985. The taxation considerations are also highlighted. Coverage includes: shareholder agreements; majority rule and Foss v Harbottle; protection against unfair prejudice; realizing a minority investment; and financial assistance for acquisition of a company's own shares.

The protection afforded to shareholders in general, and to minority shareholders specifically, may differ from country to country. This book examines the methods used in different countries to protect minority shareholders. Every author gives an overview of his or her country's company law. the types of companies which issue shares and the types of shares issued are described. the relevance of concepts such as `share', `shareholder', `majority shareholder' and 'minority shareholder', as well as the nature and relationships of shareholder rights provided by law and those contained in corporate documents, are examined. A shareholder of a company is entitled to specific substantive and procedural rights. the effective means of enforcing them and against whom they may be enforced are discussed in detail. Finally, the work considers issues of jurisdiction, conflict of laws and certain other substantive laws insofar as these rules and laws relate to and impact on the protection and enforcement of the rights of minority shareholders against domestic and foreign companies. This new publication draws on the knowledge and experience of legal practitioners from Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States of America.

This Article offers the first systematic attempt to measure the development of shareholder protection in the United States across time. Using three indices developed to measure the relative strength of shareholder protection across nations, we evaluate numerically the protections corporate and securities law have offered shareholders from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. We do so by tracking the rights accorded to shareholders across time under three important sources of corporate law, Delaware and Illinois and the Model Business Corporation Act.Our novel study yields novel results. First, we find that the protections afforded to shareholders by state corporation law have decreased since 1900 but only modestly so. This implies that, contrary to the assumptions of many scholars, state competition in corporate law has not significantly eroded shareholder rights. Second, when we add in measures that count protections provided by federal as well as state law, we find that shareholder protection improved across time. This implies that federal intervention has played a crucial and perhaps underappreciated role in shaping U.S. corporate law. Beyond its specific findings, this study illustrates how empirical analysis of legal trends provides scholars with a new means for analyzing and resolving fundamental questions in corporate law.