Corporate Governance · glossary

Persons with significant control

The people behind a company, named on a public register (section 790A). The law decides who goes on it, not the board: for example, anyone holding more than 25% of the shares or votes. Brackenholme's register names the family trust's two trustees and Calderbank's holding company. Chapter 10

Explained in Chapter 10, The Company Secretary's File, of Corporate Governance.

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