Litigation developments: fundamental shareholder rights.
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Chapter 5 of the California General Corporation Law limits when a California corporation may make a distribution to its shareholders. Because Section 166 of the Corporations Code defines "distribution to its shareholders"...more
The Alberta Court of Appeal has confirmed that dissenting shareholders to a plan of arrangement may receive an interim payment for their shares while fair value of those shares is being determined by the courts. In Brookdale...more
New York’s business-entity statutes, like those across the nation, provide minority owners with the right to dissent from a merger and to be paid the fair value of the dissenter’s ownership interest. Now assume the dissenter...more
Originally published in the Daily Journal on December 21, 2012. On Sept. 23 Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1680 into law. AB 1680 amends California's dissenters' rights statute by (i) eliminating dissenters rights...more