Commercial Shareholder Disputes Attorney in Austin, Texas

What tends do you see in shareholder lawsuits?

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well
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uh unfortunately the the trends are that
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there’s more of it the problem is that
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in 2014
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the texas
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supreme court
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narrowed the claims that were available
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to minority shareholders
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and narrowed the ability of companies to
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ultimately buy out minority shareholders
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and now leaves those kinds of claims up
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to the documentation and the agreements
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between the company and those
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shareholders and the operating
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agreements or bylaws that are involved
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and frequently those documents leave out
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important provisions about
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whether the company can buy or whether
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the shareholder can sell
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his interest and what the terms of those
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types of transactions might be
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and without those agreements and in
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those uh in those documents
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uh the shareholder and the in the
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company itself is kind of
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uh left with a limited range of options
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which ultimately means that there’s a
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lot of litigation involving
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what is generically called in this area
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business divorce and there’s just more
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of it

Austin, TX commercial litigation attorney Walter V. Williams talks about the current trends he sees in shareholder lawsuits.

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