Business Newsletter

Remedies for Dissenting Shareholders and the Deadlocked Corporation

Dissenting shareholders in a publicly-traded corporation may sell or otherwise dispose of their shares and seek as damages any lessening of value of the shares prior to the sale resulting from the matter causing the dissension. However, shareholders in a closely held corporation may not have a reasonable way to dispose of their shares and avoid dissension. ... (Read More)

A company that decides to sell its stock to the public must file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The registration statement is made public as it is filed. However, the company may not sell its securities described in the registration statement until staff of the Commission has declared that the registration statement is ... (Read More)

Margin trading in securities is the use of borrowed funds to pay in part for the purchase of the securities. Margin trading is regulated by the Federal Reserve Board and by self-regulatory organizations such as the New York and American Stock Exchanges and NASDAQ. While margin trading allows an investor to increase the leverage of the investor's funds by add... (Read More)

Major events for public companies must be made public through the filing of Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Form 8-K must be filed within four days after the events outlined in Sections 1 through 5 and 9 below.Other information must be disclosed via Form 8-K's pursuant to Commission Regulation FD. That required disclosure concerns mater... (Read More)

The Securities Act of 1933, enacted in response to the stock market crash of 1929, has been referred to as the "truth in securities" law. The Securities Act generally requires that companies selling their stock to the public must provide investors with full disclosure of material facts. Before offering their stock to the public, companies must file a registr... (Read More)