Shareholder deadlocks: Complications for directors
Directors should act methodically, record valid reasons for their business decisions, and take legal advice in cases of doubt
MY ARTICLE last week, "Boardroom dramas: shareholders in deadlock" (BT, April 6, 2015) underscored the primary duty of directors to fulfil their fiduciary duties to the company honestly, reasonably, and diligently over any other duty to opposing groups of shareholders.
In this article, I would like to cast the spotlight on the complications for directors arising from shareholder deadlock situations. There are three common complications:
The director as shareholder
When a director is also a shareholder of the company or its related company, …
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