{"id":6194,"date":"2024-03-06T17:24:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T16:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2024-03-06T17:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T16:25:01","slug":"shareholders-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/shareholders-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Shareholders&#8217; Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In a shareholders&#8217; agreement, shareholders can agree among themselves on rights and obligations.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.startups.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Buchhaltung1.jpg?resize=688%2C264\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shareholders&#8217; Agreement <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The shareholders&#8217; agreement (SA) is a means by which shareholders can enter into obligations with each other. These can include duties of loyalty, non-compete clauses, or pre-emption rights. Such agreements are not a legal requirement for the formation of a joint-stock company. With an SA, especially for personally related joint-stock companies, there is the opportunity to make agreements among themselves and thus improve the future prospects of a corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contents of an SA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In principle, all agreements can be made in an SA. Contractual freedom also applies to the SA. Clauses regarding business policy, behavior upon the exit of a shareholder, the composition of individual positions on the board of directors, non-compete clauses, work obligations, pre-emption and purchase rights are often part of the SA. To ensure compliance with the agreed provisions, it is advisable to agree on penalties. These are applied if a contracting party does not adhere to the agreed-upon arrangement and violates the SA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another important point is that the corporation itself can never be a party to a shareholders&#8217; agreement. Thus, any deviation from the contractual provisions does not affect the corporation but only concerns the relationship among the shareholders who have agreed to the SA among themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shareholders&#8217; agreement, shareholders can agree among themselves on rights and obligations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":368,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-1BU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6195,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions\/6195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}