Shareholder Oppression Blog

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....

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...

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...

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....

What is a corporation? How is it different from a partnership? What are the legal obligations? Attributes of the corporate entity The corporate structure allows the...

Texas law governing minority shareholder rights is complex and full of traps for the unwary. Texas lawyers get it wrong every day--frequently exposing their clients to...

Will the Texas Legislature Restore the Shareholder Oppression Claim? The Texas Supreme Court's Ritchie v. Rupe decision overturned the Texas shareholder oppression doctrine. The implications for...

Michigan has a robust statutory remedy for shareholder oppression. GGerald Mantese, Douglas Toering, and Fatima Mansour have just publised a fascinating new article in the January...

While shareholder agreements—in particular, Buy-Sell provisions—may provide some protection for minority shareholders against shareholder oppression, ordinarily they are not. More often, the Buy-Sell provision becomes the...

How can you buy-out a fellow shareholder (or have the company do so) and make sure that the deal is final? The law makes it very...