How To Avoid and Resolve Disputes Between Shareholders
Watch our video of why it is dangerous to run a limited company without a Shareholders Agreement.
Agreements For Shareholders
Running a business with others is much like marriage. In fact many will say they spend more time with their business partners than with their spouses.
Within that time they will share joy and heartache as fortunes rise and fall and, just like in marriage, the relationship can turn sour as problems develop and differences set root.
Mediation For Shareholders
Mediation is the name given to a broad range of processes for assisting in the resolution of disputes without the delay, cost, anxiety and risks associated with asking a judge sitting in a court to determine the matter.
Importantly the mediator can often help the parties reach a creative solution that no judge has the power to impose.
Negotiation Strategy Advice
Disputes between shareholders usually persist because one or other, or more often both, of the parties do not fully and totally understand all of the rules of corporate governance, the rights and duties of each person, the options each has and, importantly, the damage each can individually suffer in the absence of reaching a fair and sensible agreement.
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