Shareholder’s Right of Appraisal
Direct Action
Shareholder’s Derivative Action
Bond
Preferred Stock
Common Stock
Merger
Joint Venture
Stock Split
Reverse Merger
Going Public via Merger
Fiduciary Duty
Piercing the Corporate Veil
Nationality Principle
Territorial Principle
Jurisdiction to Adjudicate
Jurisdiction to Proscribe
Jurisdiction to Enforce
Rule of Reason
Per Se Rule
Tying agreement
Boycott
Quota
Quantitative Restriction
Price Fixing
Discounted Present Value
Direct Suit versus Shareholder’s Derivative Suit – Aktionaerklage
Derivatives
Options
Bonds = Debentures = Anleihen
Stocks = Shares = Aktien
Common stock – nennnungs Aktienen
versus preferred stock Vorzugsaktien
convertible wandel Aktien ; wandel Anleihen
appraisal rights – Abfindungsrecht
voting right – Zustimmungsrechte
auction duty
greenmail look up
insider trading Insiderhandel
fiduciary duty treuerhaenderische Pflicht
dividends Dividende
ex dividend
Board of Directors Aufsichtsrat – advisory board; Vorstand
Shareholders Aktionaere
[creditors]
[corporate officers and executives]
Three types of mergers
1) stock for stock
2) cash for assets
3) cash for stock
A subsidiary shell company may also be used. Those are referred to
as triangular mergers.
spinoff
Issues:
*who gets to vote? shareholders? officers? of the merged company? of
the merging company?
*What are the tax consequences? To the merged company? To the
merging company/
*What about outstanding contracts or debts?
Secrecy agreements
Covenants not to compete / non=competition agreements
*What about intellectual property
Trademarks
Copyrights
Patents
Trade secrets
fusion-or-zusammenschluss