Shareholder Disputes

Disputes between shareholders and founders can threaten the stability, growth and long-term success of a business. Whether arising from disagreements over ownership, management, financing, dilution, exit strategies or the direction of the company, these disputes require prompt legal advice and strategic representation to protect your rights and commercial interests.

Wise Counsel advises and represents founders, majority and minority shareholders, investors, directors and companies in a broad range of shareholder and founder disputes. We understand the commercial realities of closely held companies, family businesses, start-ups and venture-backed businesses, and work closely with our clients to achieve practical and commercially effective solutions.

What we help with

• Advising on shareholders' agreements, founders' agreements and constitutional documents.
• Resolving disputes concerning ownership, equity interests and shareholdings.
• Representing clients in disputes relating to voting rights, board composition and corporate control.
• Advising on founder departures, removals and succession planning.
• Resolving disputes concerning share dilution, capital increases and pre-emptive rights.
• Advising on breaches of shareholders' agreements, founders' agreements and fiduciary duties.
• Representing minority shareholders in oppression and unfair prejudice claims.
• Resolving disputes concerning dividend distributions, profit allocation and company finances.
• Advising on deadlock situations, buy-out mechanisms and business separation arrangements.
• Challenging or defending shareholders' and board resolutions.
• Seeking interim relief to preserve corporate assets, shareholdings and management rights.
• Representing clients before Vietnamese courts and domestic or international arbitral tribunals.

Our lawyers combine extensive corporate and dispute resolution experience with commercial insight to help clients resolve shareholder and founder disputes efficiently, protect their investments and preserve the long-term value of their businesses. Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provides foreign investors with a mechanism to resolve disputes agains