It is important to ensure business continuity and protect your interests in a San Diego shareholders dispute. You invested in a business or corporation to generate income and/or wealth. In many cases, your business knowledge and experience contribute to the day-to-day operations of the business.
Successfully resolving a shareholder dispute helps to protect your interests and investment and keeps the focus of business owners on the profitable operation of the business at hand.
Protecting the Interests of a Minority Shareholder
These cases often come down to asserting and protecting the interests and rights of a minority shareholder as well as to protect the company and your investment. When a shareholder dispute arises, the working atmosphere can become quickly clouded, and decision making can become more emotional in nature. The disagreement between productive business partners causes pain to both parties, and this is often played out in power moves and actions which are not in the best interests of the corporation itself.
How can you protect your interests in a San Diego shareholders dispute? What are the best strategies to resolve a shareholder dispute? These are questions that are often asked of the experienced business attorneys at the Watkins Firm. After more than four decades of providing sound counsel and advice to business owners, shareholders, investors and partners, I can tell you that it is important to take prompt action to assert and protect your rights. However, it is also very possible for our professionals to find common ground between the parties and help them to work their way through the issues at hand without the need for business litigation or a lawsuit.
How Can the Watkins Firm Protect Your Interests in a San Diego Shareholders Dispute?
The shareholders’ agreement and corporate bylaws are the critical contract and documents governing these disputes. However, in many cases these documents have been neglected or were never genuinely considered and customized at the outset of business formation.
Here in California, our laws ensure shareholders have the right to access specific information including important corporate documents. Voting rights are often associated with the right to inspect the books of the corporation. It doesn’t matter if your dispute is rooted in the failure to declare and distribute dividends or if majority interests are attempting to water down or eliminate the value of your position through a merger or other activity.
We work to quickly and effectively develop a well documented and strong chronology as well as a mastery of any associated damages. This provides the leverage to open negotiations to protect your rights and interests as a shareholder. You will be pleased to learn the Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of our shareholder dispute cases through effective, leveraged negotiation. This is the fastest and least expensive proven strategy to accomplish your goals and objectives.
Shareholder disputes can actually drive important issues to the surface where the parties can ultimately work together to resolve them. You’ve invested all of your time, hard work and money into the corporation. It is important to ensure business continuity and protect your interests in a San Diego shareholders dispute.
A shareholder dispute is a distraction that will cost you not only in terms of profit, but in some cases in terms of the life of the corporation itself. If you are involved in a shareholder dispute we invite you to review our podcast Episode 14 – Shareholders’ Rights and Disputes as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.
