Corporate Shareholders and Business Partners — Protect Your Financial Interests
If you are a shareholder in a closely held or privately held corporation or professional practice, you have financial interests and rights that are worth protecting. If you are beginning to wonder whether the majority partners or owners share your concern about your rights, it may be time to talk to a business law attorney about shareholder oppression and ways you can fight back.
Kerr & Hendershot lawyers have been providing legal counsel and representation for minority partners and shareholders for more than two decades. Our attorneys know the tactics that majority owners and equal partners often resort to in order to force their will on the other owners or to force out "squeeze out" a minority partner or shareholder. We will thoroughly investigate the matter and prepare the strongest case possible to protect your business shares or the financial value of your partnership.
Contact our offices in Houston or Corpus Christi, Texas, to arrange a consultation with an attorney on our business litigation team. We will evaluate your circumstances and help you understand what options are best. In many cases, a costly trial is not in your best interest. Protecting your financial interest in the business, however, always is. We will use our business litigation skills and experience to negotiate the best possible outcome and prevent any further diminution of your shareholder rights whenever possible. However, if such negotiations fail we have substantial experience in litigating these matters in both State and Federal Court.
Are you experiencing any of these common methods of shareholder oppression?
- Majority owners or other partner terminates key business relationships
- Key contracts you control have been ignored or terminated
- You have been refused access to corporate books and records
- The business or partnership has stopped paying out dividends or bonuses
- Freeze outs and lockouts
- Deliberate reduction in the paper value of your stock
- Demands to sell your interest at below value
- Threats to reduce the value of the company if you do not comply with the majority's demands
Contact us to discuss your legal options today. We are available from our Corpus Christi office only by appointment.
