Shareholders & Shareholders' meetings (M3/S3 - CoSec Cert)

Registration & welcome coffee

Welcome & introductions

Shareholders

• What is a shareholder

• Where to find find rules applicable to shareholders (articles, shareholders’ agreement, partnership agreement)?

Shareholders meetings

• Who can vote?

• What about profit units?

Case Study: Preparing and holding an annual general meeting (example 1) 

Coffee break

Holding of Shareholders' meeting:

• How many voting rights attached to one share?

• When holding a shareholders' meeting?

• How to convene a shareholders' meeting?

• How the shareholders' decisions are taken?

• What are the quorum and majority requirements? 
  

Case study: Holding a shareholders meeting (example 2)

Lunch break

Shareholders' rights:

Right of information, right to raise questions, right of access to documents, right to sue directors

Case Study: Right to ask questions on management operations outside shareholders meetings 

Coffee break

Transfer of shares

• Is a shareholder free to transfer its shares?

• What are the conditions to the transfer of shares?

Pledge over shares

• How to record a pledge in the share register?

• Who is entitled to exercise the rights attached to the pledge shares?

Case study: Holding shares register 

Redemption and repurchase of shares

• What are the main conditions applicable to each procedure?

• What are the differences between the two mechanisms?

Closing of the course