Legal Question in Business Law in Illinois

what are the pro and cons of non voting stock. We are a family owned company with 4 shareholders holding 52 percent and 3 shareholders holding the balance of voting stock. The president ( who is a shareholder) is really pressing non voting stock. It takes 68 percent to pass non voting stock according to shareholder agreement.


Asked on 9/14/10, 6:07 pm

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The "pros and cons" in abstract will not be helpful to you. What is the goal here; what is the president's thinking for why non-voting stock is needed? For example, I've seen family owned companies where the children who are minors have non-voting shares so that if one set of parents who are stockholders have 3 children and another family member has none, then the voting is not skewed because of the children.....

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Answered on 9/21/10, 11:08 am


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