Elsewhere on this website and blog post, we have argued that majority shareholders and corporations owe fiduciary duties to minority shareholders in the context of a...
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Corporations are so ubiquitous that it is surprising that they are a relatively recent legal development. Here is a history of the development of the Texas...
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What is a corporation? How is it different from a partnership? What are the legal obligations?Attributes of the corporate entityThe corporate structure allows the owners of...
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Texas law recognizes “the property right which a share in such a company creates.” Yeaman v. Galveston City Co., 167 S.W. 710, 719 (Tex. 1914). In...
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In prior blog posts, we have dealt with the issue of shareholder oppression that ends in a stock redemption. While generally majority shareholders do not owe...
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Whenever a client comes to us with a concern about how they are being treated as a shareholder or how the corporation is being run, the...
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After Ritchie v. Rupe, it is clear in Texas that there is no fiduciary duty generally that majority stockholders owe to minority stockholders. This means that...
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Is a shareholder’s right to inspect corporate documents an “internal affair” of the corporation? If so, then the law of the state of incorporation applies. If...
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A very important issue of corporate law is currently pending before the Texas First Court of Appeals in the case of Hartman Income REIT, Inc. v....
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What if the majority shareholder sells out to a crook who subsequently loots the company? The minority shareholders may have a breach of fiduciary duty claim....
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