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AANDI Lawyers’ veteran team offer comprehensive business legal counselling and shareholder dispute resolution services. We seek outcomes for our clients, be they shareholders or directors.
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A shareholder dispute can bring your business to a grinding halt. Such disagreements can arise between shareholders, cadres of shareholders, or between shareholders and the directors they’ve elected to run their business. Whatever side of the equation you lie on, we will help you understand the legal facts behind your issues and lay out your options.
If you believe you may have grounds for a shareholders' dispute, we’re ready to get to work.
Book a consultation and bring us up to speed on the issue at hand. We’ll assign you a dedicated business dispute resolution lawyer.
Your dedicated lawyer and their team will review the facts of your case, assess your shareholders’ agreement and detail your options.
Once you’re confident in a course of action, we will pursue it till we reach an outcome.
Once all parties are satisfied, we will help you ratify your new agreement to enshrine your rights, entitlements and obligations as a shareholder.
Book a consultation and bring us up to speed on the issue at hand. We’ll assign you a dedicated business dispute resolution lawyer.
Your dedicated lawyer and their team will review the facts of your case, assess your shareholders’ agreement and detail your options.
Once you’re confident in a course of action, we will pursue it till we reach an outcome.
Once all parties are satisfied, we will help you ratify your new agreement to enshrine your rights, entitlements and obligations as a shareholder.
Book a consultation and bring us up to speed on the issue at hand. We’ll assign you a dedicated business dispute resolution lawyer.
Your dedicated lawyer and their team will review the facts of your case, assess your shareholders’ agreement and detail your options.
Once you’re confident in a course of action, we will pursue it till we reach an outcome.
With a nuanced understanding of Australian business law and how it affects a company’s affairs, our lawyers have the expertise necessary to tackle any challenge you proffer.
Our success is born out of our meticulous attention to detail. From the moment you engage us, we will scour every source of evidence and explore every avenue to discern the ideal solution for your case. Our services include, but certainly are not limited to:
Talk it out
Most shareholder agreements will have a dispute resolution clause recommending negotiation. We can represent you to avoid costly legal proceedings.
Get a third party involved
If the situation isn't amicable but neither party wants to prosecute, AANDI Lawyers can act as a third-party mediator to help shareholders resolve their disputes
Mediation for groups
By running a facilitation process, we can ensure you and all other parties feel adequately acknowledged and that they have participated in negotiating the outcome.
Hire a professional to help
Conciliation is an advanced negotiation tactic in which we provide legal advice to all involved parties as an impartial third party.
Let a third party decide
Should negotiations break down, an elected third party can make a final decision. We can act as arbitrators or represent you before an arbitration board.
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Shareholder Agreements are binding legal contracts that outline the responsibilities shareholders have to each other and the company. These contracts also outline procedures for dispute resolution.
We strongly recommend that any company with two or more shareholders contact a lawyer to draft a Shareholder Agreegment. When preparing such an agreement, you should take care to detail:
The duties of a company’s directors and shareholders are unique to that company. The nuances of their roles will be clarified in their company’s Constitution. However, there are some general rules and obligations all directors and shareholders have in common.
Directors have a fiduciary duty to:
Shareholders, generally speaking, do not have an automatic right to be involved in the day-to-day management of the business. They exercise their authority collectively using methods laid out by the Australian Corporations Act of 2001.
Shareholders have a duty to act in the company’s best interests and to avoid any business dealings that might harm the business or its reputation. The specifics of their duties will be laid out in the company’s Constitution and Shareholders’ Agreement.
Most shareholder disputes arise from disagreements over the interpretation of the Shareholders’ Agreement. Usually, it is possible to negotiate a resolution. However, you and all shareholders and directors in your company should be wary of significant failures of duty, which can include:
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