Shareholders' Agreements · glossary

Joint venture

A company owned by partners who each put in something different and each expect a say. Here a listed logistics group put in cash, a family business two cold stores, and an engineer her work and her software. Recital (A) · Chapter 1

Explained in Chapter 1, Why the Articles Are Not Enough, of Shareholders' Agreements.

How it comes up, in Chapter 1
A shareholders' agreement (SHA) is a private contract between the owners of a company. It sets how they run the company, how they fund it and how any of them can leave. This workbook follows one SHA for a joint venture, a company owned by partners who each put in something different. You are a junior solicitor at Greaves Street LLP in Bristol, and you act for the owner with 35%.
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