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What you need to know about joint shareholdings

Published in Shares and shareholders on May 6, 2024 by Johnathan Korchak

When one person holds shares jointly with one or more others, they are joint shareholders. That’s different from the situation where more than one shareholder each owns shares in a company in their own right. A joint…

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How many shares should a new company issue?

Published in Shares and shareholders on May 1, 2024 by Johnathan Korchak

How many shares should a new company issue? It’s a frequently asked question. There are several common patterns of share ownership in newly formed companies. However, there is also a great amount of flexibility and no absolute…

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Tags: share allotment, share issue, shares

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5 simple steps to perfect share certificates

Published in Shares and shareholders on April 16, 2024 by Johnathan Korchak

Our basic share certificate template is completely free to use. You can alternatively purchase unlimited use of one of our premium professionally-designed templates.…

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Share certificates – what you need to know

Published in Shares and shareholders on April 15, 2024 by Johnathan Korchak

A share certificate, which is produced and issued by a company, certifies on a certain date that a person is the registered owner of shares in that company. The key information shown on the certificate includes the name and…

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What is a shareholder?

Published in Shares and shareholders on October 2, 2023 by Johnathan Korchak

Shareholders are people (or sometimes other companies) who invest money into a company in return for shares (also known as ‘equity’). Each share is a slice of the company. One share can be a big slice or a very thin slice,…

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What is a shareholders’ agreement?

Published in Shares and shareholders on September 18, 2023 by Philip Newman

When setting up a company with family or friends it is easy to assume that nothing can go wrong in the future. You might assume that, as you trust one another, you do not need to put in place something like a shareholders’…

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