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Corporations - Rights And Remedies Of Dissenting Stockholders Upon Consolidation And Merger
Corporations - Rights And Remedies Of Dissenting Stockholders Upon Consolidation And Merger
Michigan Law Review
Consolidation or merger of private corporations in recent years has been more and more frequent. One of the most engrossing problems when such unions take place is that of the rights and remedies of dissenting shareholders. The question which arises most frequently in cases of consolidation or merger, and that in the solution of which, paradoxicaIIy, our courts tend to expend the least amount of legal acumen, is whether the consolidation or merger of corporations operates to dissolve the constituent corporations in such a manner as materially to affect the rights of the shareholders in those corporations.