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Forming A Subsidiary In The European Common Market, Alfred F. Conard
Forming A Subsidiary In The European Common Market, Alfred F. Conard
Michigan Law Review
The appearance of a new market which is open to free enterprise and contains almost as many customers as the United States has opened immense opportunities to American enterprises, with their unique experience in mass production and mass marketing. General counsel for large American enterprises are confronted with a new need for some understanding of the problems of organizing subsidiary companies in this new market. The present article is written to supply an introduction to the legal factors which bear on solutions of these problems.
Trusts - Principal And Income - Apportionment Under Pennsylvania Rule Of Stock Dividends Based On Capital Surplus, James H. Devries
Trusts - Principal And Income - Apportionment Under Pennsylvania Rule Of Stock Dividends Based On Capital Surplus, James H. Devries
Michigan Law Review
Under the terms of a trust established in New York in 1915 income was to be paid to a beneficiary for life and upon his death the principal was to be distributed to certain descendants of the settlor. Two extraordinary stock distributions were received by the trust during the life of the income beneficiary. In issuing the additional shares each of the corporations had transferred to capital stock account its entire capital surplus and sufficient earned surplus to support the additional shares at their par value. At the time of creation of the trust New York applied the Pennsylvania rule …
Stockholder Votes Motivated By Adverse Interest: The Attack And The Defense, Earl Sneed
Stockholder Votes Motivated By Adverse Interest: The Attack And The Defense, Earl Sneed
Michigan Law Review
It is the purpose of this article to study stockholder votes motivated by adverse interest from the standpoint of the attack and the defense. First, the remedies available to the complaining minority are examined. Then follows a study of the indicia of adverse interest in specific shareholder actions. Knowledge of the nature and import of these indicia should enable the careful lawyer to avoid or defeat the charge that unconscionable adverse interest vitiated the result of a stockholder vote.
Antitrust Laws- Judicial Relief For Violations Of Section Seven Of The Clayton Act - Disenfranchisement In United States V. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co., Barbara B. Burt S. Ed.
Antitrust Laws- Judicial Relief For Violations Of Section Seven Of The Clayton Act - Disenfranchisement In United States V. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co., Barbara B. Burt S. Ed.
Michigan Law Review
This comment will approach section 7 relief questions and solutions primarily in the light of du Pont's unique facts, which included a vertical stock acquisition made thirty years before the judicial proceeding plus the complicating factors of vast financial interests, numerous innocent investors and several corporate interrelationships. Thereby were posed complex problems regarding (1) parties to the relief determination, (2) interests to be affected by the decree and (3) the manner of affecting those interests.
Corporations - Amendment Of Articles Of Incorporation - Power Of Majority To Require Holders Of Redeemable Preferred Stock To Accept Bonds Instead Of Money In Redemption, Clayton R. Smalley
Corporations - Amendment Of Articles Of Incorporation - Power Of Majority To Require Holders Of Redeemable Preferred Stock To Accept Bonds Instead Of Money In Redemption, Clayton R. Smalley
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiffs owned 6 percent cumulative convertible prior preferred stock in defendant corporation. The stock had a stated value of $100 per share, and was redeemable at the option of the corporation at $115 per share plus accumulated dividends. By vote of more than two-thirds of the outstanding shares of each class of stock issued, defendant's articles of incorporation were amended to authorize its board of directors to redeem the prior stock at $120 per share, payable in the company's 5 percent 30-year debentures. Interest on the debentures was to be cumulative, paid out of earnings, and subordinated to the other …
Administrative Law - Powers Of Agencies - Right Of Registrant To Withdraw Registration Statement Filed With The Securities And Exchange Commission, John Edward Porter
Administrative Law - Powers Of Agencies - Right Of Registrant To Withdraw Registration Statement Filed With The Securities And Exchange Commission, John Edward Porter
Michigan Law Review
Petitioner filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an issue of corporate stock. Shares of the same class as those being registered were widely held by members of the public. Petitioner repeatedly amended the statement, so that it had not yet become effective nearly three months after the initial filing. At this time, petitioner sought to withdraw its registration statement. The commission denied the application for withdrawal, and after a hearing, issued a stop order, preventing the statement from becoming effective and indicating its unreliability. On petition for review of the order, held, affirmed. Where …