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# Shareholders Agreements Webinar

This video provides a general overview of shareholders agreements for privately owned companies in Australia. It explains why people have them, what they contain, and how to go about preparing one. It is a recording of a webinar presented to a live audience in 2020.

You can use the pinpoint index below to skip through to particular issues. You can find a copy of our shareholders questionnaire [here](https://www.turtons.com/hubfs/Webinar%20Assets/SHA%20Webinar%20Feb%202020/Self-Assessment%20Checklist%20for%20Shareholders%20Agreement%20(10).docx) and you can download a copy of the slide deck [here](https://www.turtons.com/hubfs/Webinar%20Assets/SHA%20Webinar%20Feb%202020/Webinar%20Slide%20Deck%20-%20Shareholders%20Agreements.pdf). The webinar was presented by Greg Henry, a principal at Turtons.

**Click [here](https://www.turtons.com/book-your-free-consultation-shareholders-agreement) to arrange a free consultation to discuss your shareholders agreement with one of our commercial lawyers.**

 

## Pinpoint Index: Shareholders Agreements

Board of Directors

- Composition of the Board - 15:15
- Right to appoint a director - 14:30, 20:55

Constitution (relationship with shareholders agreement) - 3:45

Contents of a shareholders agreement (high level) - 13:59

Cost of preparing - 40:35

Decision-making

- Decision-making matrix - 15:45, 39:10
- Decisions reserved to the Board, Shareholders etc - 14:30

Dispute resolution - 27:35

Drag along clauses - 22:40

Forced buy/sell clauses - 27:35

Generally

- How to make one - 32:10
- Risks of not having a shareholders agreement - 3:45
- What they contain (high level) - 10:40
- Why people have shareholders agreements - 1:35, 10:00

Miscellaneous clauses - 31:00

Pre-emptive rights - 19:05

Restraints - 24:40

Rights to receive information - 25:45

Shareholders agreement questionnaire - 37:40

Tag along clauses - 23:43

Template shareholders agreements - 33:37

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