The right of the shareholders to withdraw from a joint stock company, in the event of a decision of the general meeting of the shareholders activating the procedure regulated by art. 134 of the Law no. 31/1990, with the consequence that the shareholder who disagreed with such a decision has received from the company the value of the shares in possession, at a value determined by an expert according to the legal procedure, is not conditional upo...

The right of the shareholders to withdraw from a joint stock company, in the event of a decision of the general meeting of the shareholders activating the procedure regulated by art. 134 of the Law no. 31/1990, with the consequence that the shareholder who disagreed with such a decision has received from the company the value of the shares in possession, at a value determined by an expert according to the legal procedure, is not conditional up...

This article discusses legal exit rights as a minority shareholder protection in Romania, France and the United States, as countries representatives of weak, average and respectively strong capital markets, with varying levels of shareholder activism and litigation (low, normal and respectively high). Legal exit rights are instances where the law provides that a shareholder has a withdrawal right, generally at a fair price to be paid by the co...