Shareholder Agreements and Shareholder Recovery
Issues covered include: corporate misconduct, shareholder recovery, drafting shareholder agreements
Description
Perfecting a shareholder agreement is tricky enough, but then things only grow more complicated when the spectre of corporate misconduct rears its ugly head. Delve into the nuts and bolts of crafting an unassailable shareholder agreement through an interactive and practical workshop followed by an eye opening examination of what to be wary of when a corporation misbehaves and how to handle such situations as they relate to shareholder recovery.
Attend and earn 3 CPD units in Substantive Law
This seminar was recorded in NSW on 28 March 2019
Chair: Snezana Vojvodic, Partner, Brown Wright Stein Lawyers
2.00pm to 4.00pm: PRACTICAL WORKSHOP: Preparation of Shareholder Agreements
- Drafting shareholder agreements
- Governance, control and finance in shareholder agreements
- Negotiating shareholder agreements with respect to resolution of conflicts
PRACTICAL WORKSHOP: Shareholder Entry and Exit Strategies
- Non-compete, confidentiality and restraint
- Managing the process by drafting and other methods
- Strategies to minimise difficulties
- Precedent clauses: Which ones work and why?
Presented by John Graves, Principal, Bradfield & Scott Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Business and Property Law and Michael Neylan, Managing Principal, 42.2 Law; Best Lawyers 2019, Transportation Law
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
4.15pm to 5.15pm: The Spectre of the Shareholder: Beware the Board’s Behaviour
A consideration of corporate misconduct and shareholder recovery
- What is ‘commercial unfairness’? Examining the complexities of corporate oppression
- Potential consequences of an oppression suit
- Some recent decisions on the nature of s232 and s233 of the Corporations Act
Presented by David Andrews, Partner, and James d’Apice, Senior Associate, Makinson d’Apice Lawyers
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