19. BE Flashcards
Corporation Formation: Formal Requirements
Ultra Vires
Corporation Formation: Optional Requirements
Corporation Commencement of Legal Existence
Incorportor/ Promotor Responsibilities in Formation of Corporation
What must be done after corporation is created?
Corporation Issuance of Shares
Share Certificate Requirements
Exception to Share Certificate Requirement
Didn’t get share certificate . . . what do you do?
file writ of mandamus
Corporation Adoption of Bylaws
What do Bylaws Say?
Corporation Voting
- quorum
- action without meeting
- counting votes
- proxy
Corporation Exceptions to General Rule for Voting
Corporation Election of Directors
Corporation Cumulative Voting
Corporation Voting Trust
Corporation Pooling Agreement
Corporation Unanimous Governance Agreement
Corporations Annual Reports
Corporations Shareholders’ Duty
- powers
- annual meeting
- special meetings
Shareholders’ Rights
- right to vote
- right to inspect the corporate books
- right to petition for a special shareholders’ meeting
- dissenters’ rights
- preemptive rights
- right to bring a derivative suit
Corporations: Annual Meetings
Corporations: No Annual Meeting Held
Corporations: Special Meetings
Notice Waiver
Shareholders can waive the requirement of notice of annual and special meetings:
- in writing either before or after the meeting OR
- by merely showing up at the meeting and not objecting to the lack of proper notice
Corporations Directors’ Duties
- duty of care
- duty of loyalty
- Conflicting Interest Transactions
- Usurpation of Corporate Authority
Corporations Directors’ Duty of Care
Corporations Directors’ Duty of Loyalty
Director’s Conflicting Interest Transaction
Qualified Director Approval
Usurpation of Corporate Authority
Corporations Officers’ Duty
Corporations: Where Qualified Director Approval is Required
Corporations Unqualified Right to Inspect
Corporations Qualified Right to Inspect
Corporations Preemptive Rights
Preemptive Rights Do NOT Apply To:
- shares issued for compensation
- non-cash transactions
- shares without voting rights
- shares issued within 6 months after incorporation
Corporations Dissenter’s Rights
Dissenter’s Rights NOTICE Requirements
- corporation must give notice of potential dissenters’ rights to SH in meeting notice
- SH must give written notice of intent to demand payment
- if proposed action approved, corporation must notify dissenters within 10 days after vote
- SH then demand payment
- corporation must pay fair value that corp. estimates
Corporations Role of Directors
- the main governing body of corporation
- must have at least 1 director (SECRETARY)
- set number can be established in articles or bylaws
- can be compensated or uncompensated
- SHs can be director
TERM
- one year, unless staggered or classified board
- longest term is 3 years
- must be in articles
Corporations Removal of Directors
Corporations Vacancy of Directors
Corporations Decisions and Meetings
- BOD is a collective body
- individual directors are not mandataries of the corporation
- every director has one vote and majority rules
- no required director meetings
- can split into committees
Corporations Prohibitions on Delegations to Committee
Corporations Conducting Meetings
Corporations Fundamental Transactions
When Corporations MUST Indemnify
requires a corporation to indemnify directors, officers, employees, and agents of the corporation who are successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of an analogous action
When Corporations MAY Indemnify
Who Decides Indemnification in Corporations?
Corporation Personal Liability of Shareholder
Corporations Piercing the Veil
Single Business Enterprise
Corporation Personal Liability of Directors
Derivative Suit Requirements