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Emergency Equity

New shares the company offers for cash when it needs money it cannot borrow or find itself. Starting a round and setting its price both need A Consent and B Consent. Every owner is offered its share, and an owner that does not buy is diluted. Definition: Emergency Equity · Clause 7.5 · Chapter 6

Explained in Chapter 6, Money, of Shareholders' Agreements.

How it comes up, in Chapter 6
Emergency Equity is new shares issued for cash when the loans are not enough. It starts only if the board, with A Consent and B Consent, decides that the company needs money it cannot find from its own cash or by borrowing. The board then fixes the price of each new share, again with both consents.
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Shares offered for subscription under clause 7.5;
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