The Law and Practice of Shareholders' Agreements in National and International Joint Ventures: Common and Civil Law Uses.

• defending minority interests;
• shareholder control techniques and options;
• share transfer restrictions;
• devices for permitting transfers or obligating purchases of equity interests;
• maintaining a desired equilibrium amongst the joint venturers;
• resolving situations with the entry of new shareholders;
• dispute resolution;
• arbitration;
• resolving deadlocks;
• providing for succession;
• limiting the powers of the board of directors;
• remedies for breach of the agreement;
• valuation of shares;
• exit strategies; and
• choice of law and forum clauses

This is a peerless, unique compendium through the labyrinth of the shareholders' agreement and its use in national and international joint ventures. In addition, beyond its immeasurable practical guidance for business lawyers, the book will appeal to jurists and legal academics for its unified theory of the shareholders' agreement which document is but one source of a multitude of rights encompassing the shareholder, the company and society.

The shareholders´ agreement may be seen as the lawyer's tool to correct the incongruities of corporate law; the occasional judicial lapses; the failure to adapt past jurisprudence to current economic realities; and to put into the hands of the shareholders the control of the assets contributed by them.