Corporate and Shareholder Disputes
Shareholder disputes are rarely about the shares. They are about who controls the bank account and the board.
What we do
We act in oppression and mismanagement petitions under Sections 241 and 242 of the Companies Act, 2013, and in the interim applications that decide who is running the company while the petition is heard. Board and management deadlock, removal of directors, disputed board meetings and the validity of resolutions. Rectification of the register of members. Enforcement of shareholders agreements against a party who has decided the agreement no longer suits them, including specific performance of transfer obligations and injunctions against transfer. Derivative claims and the fiduciary position of directors. Family business disputes, where the legal question is usually the smaller half of the problem and a settlement architecture across shareholding, property and management is what actually resolves it. We approach those with settlement in view from the first hearing, because litigating a family to a judgment rarely leaves a business worth having.
Experience
The matters below are described without identifying the client, unless the client has consented in writing to being named.
