You are being frozen out of a company.

Excluded from decisions. Dividends stopped while salaries flow to others. Information withheld. Minority shareholders and directors of private companies have stronger remedies than most people realise.

Right now

  1. Keep your records: emails, accounts, board papers, anything you hold or are entitled to hold.
  2. Do not resign in haste. Positions given up in frustration are hard to recover. Take advice first.
  3. Ask formally for the books. Shareholders and directors have inspection rights, and a refusal is itself evidence.
  4. Understand the oppression remedies. Courts can order your shares bought out at a fair value, unwind self-interested transactions, or in the last resort wind the company up.

What we do

We act for shareholders and directors in oppression proceedings and exit disputes, including the valuation contests that usually decide them, and we move quickly for interim relief where value is leaking while the dispute runs.

Read more about our Commercial and Shareholder Disputes practice

Talk to us today

All consultations are private and confidential. For urgent matters please call +61 3 8676 7929. Telephone is answered out of hours. Contact us