In: Accounting
Joe is a company director in a proprietary company. He is proposing to put a resolution to his company that it buy out the smaller holdings. Joe reasons that there are a number of quite large shareholders and many of the smaller members have little interest in the company. Joe doesn't want to force any member to sell their shares but would like to clean up the register by buying out the smaller holdings.
Required:advice Joe on the legal implications of his plan.
Buyback of certain shares from shareholders can only be done
after the true consent of such shareholders.
Further if the shareholders agrees, the company can buy back such
share holdings and cancel the name of such share holders who sold
their holdings to the company.
In the given case,
Joe is a company director in a proprietary company. He is proposing to put a resolution to his company that it buy out the smaller holdings. Joe reasons that there are a number of quite large shareholders and many of the smaller members have little interest in the company. Joe doesn't want to force any member to sell their shares but would like to clean up the register by buying out the smaller holdings.
Joe as a director can only clean up the register when the smaller
members of the company fullu agrees to sell their holdings to the
company.
Legal implications would be :