Dixon and Another v Blindley Heath Investments Ltd and Another: CA 9 Oct 2015

Struggle for control of a Company and, in particular, a transfer of 200 shares in the Company by the first to seventh Defendants below (as vendors) to a body corporate registered in the British Virgin Islands as purchaser pursuant to a share purchase agreement. The Appellants say that the transfer was made in breach of valid rights of pre-emption and the transaction should be unwound. If successful, they will secure legal control of the Company.

Longmore, Jackson LJJ, Hildyard J
[2015] EWCA Civ 1023
Bailii
England and Wales

Company

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