Owners of family-owned corporations often enter into shareholder agreements that spell out whether and to whom corporate shares can be transferred. Frequently, these agreements provide for rights of ...

Professor Jill E. Fisch at the University of Pennsylvania has recently released a working paper in which she examines the shareholder agreements and argues that that courts should limit their ...

A minority shareholder owns less than half of a company. As a result, if a dispute arises over the sale or distribution of assets, or another issue requiring shareholder votes, a minority shareholder ...