What rights does a stockholder have in a LBO?  How is stock valued, and can I refuse to sell?
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Typically an LBO will be structured so that the target will be merged into the shell that they are going to lever up with the debt that they will use to buy out the current shareholders (you).  Assuming they can get at least 51% of the shares to vote in favor of such a merger (if they obtain more than 90% they don't even have to submit it to a vote but can squeeze you out), your only option will be to accept the merger consideration per shares (which will need to be outlined to you) or to exercise your dissenter's rights.  If you exercise your dissenter's rights, you are asking for a court to opine on the fair market value of your shares.  Most deals (and almost every public deal) gets a fairness opinion from an investment bank -- its unlikely that the amount per share that the bank has signed off will be found deficient in a court.
528420
assets = liabilities + stockholder's equity (A=L+E)\n\nif A-L < 0, then shareholder's equity is less than zero\n\nin other words, if you have more liabilities than assets
384270
Well it NEVER is a good sign when a company gets delisted off the stock exchange. To put it bluntly, kicked off. Even before they stopped trading completely (on what they call the pink sheets) the stock price never went beyond $1.03 a share. I tried to look at their financial statement on their web site but low and behold no financials? The news on this company is so sparse that there is no way I would invest based upon the way the management is hiding all relevant information on the company except of course their statement they will be relisted on the exchange soon.
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If you pd for the stock and it was sold at a profit you pay capital gains if you pd for the stock and it had no value when you sold it you would have a loss. If you pd nothing and they were worth nothing. Then you have to do nothing. If I knew more I could better answer this. Hope this helps some
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Businesses issue stock to raise capital.\n\nAdvantages of issuing stock:\n\nA Company can raise more capital than it could borrow. \nA Company does not have to make periodic interest payments to creditors. \nA Company does not have to make principal payments.
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there's no specific time to sell a stock, always look at its technical and fundamental details before making a decision. Google properly prompted you to sell it recently due to its pull back. Its nice to keep it now, as it was a pull back where it found support on its prior high. We will see how it goes the next few days before making a decision to sell. If it breaks its support on its prior high on above average volume, it will definately be a sell.
35352
Yes But !! ... Do you want to sell time-shares or teach English.  Not a lot else available.  The company you work for should help with the paperwork ... if they don't - walk away
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By doing that you automatically give up control of the company since they own 62% of it, meaning they can fire you anytime they want. Be careful here, there are several books available for people starting their own companies, I would consult one before giving away this much equity in your new company.
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OK, you need to watch the stock prices and volumes very closely.  If the stock pull back with low volumes and the prices is just down a little bit, you should hold.  On the other hand, if the stock pull back with heavy volumes and the prices down like 3% or higher and the volumes are higher than the last trading session, you should sell the stock immediately.  The institutions are selling the stock, and you don't want to sit around watch your gains disappear.\n\nOther sell sign, if the stock repeately reach 52 weeks high with low volume, you want to sell it also.  Don't lost any money OK!
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The capital of a joint stock limited company shall be divided into shares of equal value.\nThe shares of the company shall take the form of share certificates, which are vouchers issued by the company to certify the shares held by their shareholders.\nThe issue of shares shall be in compliance with the principles of publicity, fairness and justice. The same shares must carry the same rights and the same benefits.\nShares of the same issue shall be issued on the same conditions and at the same price. A unit or an individual subscribing to shares shall pay the same price for each share.\n Shares issued by a company to sponsors, a State-authorized investment institution or legal persons shall be registered shares which shall state the names of the sponsors, State-authorized investment institution or legal persons. Such shares may not be registered in other names, or names of their representatives.\n\n　　Shares issued to the general public may be either registered shares or bearer shares.\n\n　　Where registered shares are issued, the company shall prepare a roster of the shareholders, in which the following items shall be recorded:\n\n　　(1) the names or titles, and domiciles of the shareholders;\n\n　　(2) the number of shares held by each shareholder;\n\n　　(3) the serial numbers of the share certificates held by each shareholder; and\n\n　　(4) the date on which each shareholder obtained his shares.\n\n　　Where bearer shares are issued, the company shall keep a record of the number, the serial numbers and the issue date of the share certificates.
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Probably zero.  If the company truly has no assets, it is likely that it will be treated as having liquidated for federal income tax purposes.  Even if it has not been liquidated, there are tax rules that are designed to make it difficult or impossible to derive a benefit from buying a company that has nothing but a NOL.  I doubt you will find a well-informed buyer who is willing to take a chance that the NOL will be usable in the future.\n\nIf you (or whoever the present owner is) were to start up a new business in the company, and assuming it is not considered to have liquidated, then you might be able to use the loss carryforward.
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Whatever price the current owner is asking for this business, he should be able to support with accurate financial data.\n\nAsk for the last 12 months of financial statements - Profit and Loss Statements, Balance Sheets, etc. Then pick a few months at random, and ask the owner for the supporting documentation (receipts, bank statements, invoices, check stubs, etc.). You will want to make sure that the financial statements are accurate.\n\nIf the owner of this business is unwilling or unable to provide you with this data, DO NOT BUY THIS BUSINESS.
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There are four types of options that you could get:\n\n1.  Qualified stock options\n2.  Nonqualified stock options\n3.  Warrants\n4.  OTC or Exchange traded options.\n\nThe first two are granted to employees or those related to the firm in some way (e.g., board members).  The third are long term options sold by the company.  They could then be sold in the secondary market.  It sounds like this is what you have.  The fourth is a contract between two parties that does not involve the company.\n\nQualified stock options are part of a plan.  For most people, no taxes are due when the option is exercised.  When the stock is sold, the value above the strike price is considered capital gains and is taxed as such.  If you are subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), then when you exercise, you have to pay AMT tax (20%) on the difference between the strike price and the fair market value.  If the stock is traded publicly, then the fair market value is the price.  If it is right before IPO, then the IRS will make you use the IPO price as the fair market value.  If it is more than six months to IPO, then the company can pretty much set its own value for the fair market value -- though if private equity was recently sold, that sets the market price.  When the stock is sold, the fair market value, rather than the strike price, becomes the basis for valuing the capital gains.\n\nFor nonqualified stock options, ordinary income tax is due on the difference between the strike price and the fair market value when the options are exercised.  For companies going IPO there is a real savings to exercising before IPO if the issue is going to be underpriced.  Dot-Commers saved millions in taxes doing this before the bust -- but there is a risk -- those who did it right before the bust owed millions in taxes, but had worthless stock.\n\nFor warrants or traded options, no taxes are due until the stock is sold -- at which time the value above the strike price is a capital gain.  However, if you sell the option before exercising, there may be taxes due on the gain of the option.
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It doesn't matter whether you own or not, the sale of goods act implys that you have legal title to your goods. The question depends on whether you acquire title to the goods you acquire from one place and sell to someone else. Most commercial places allow transfer of title from them to the end user, skipping the person like you. Effectively you become an agent for the companies supplying the clothes. If however you pay for them, at the time of order then the legal title is your and you can sell.\nRemember if you take an order you have formed a contract, if you don't perform it is a repudiatory breach, even though you can refund the money, its better to have the stock.  The problems which could arise may not be feasible economically since people do bulk orders rather than drop shipping which is what your intending.
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It depends on your corporate structure. If you are a C-Corporation then, yes you can sell to anyone. \n\nIf you are and LLC or an S-Corporation then you have restrictions. With and S or LLC you cannot sell to foreigners. Also in an S-Corp I believe you can only sell shares to up to 75 shareholders, more than that and your S-Corp election is terminated and it becomes a C-Corp, and with an LLC I think 50 shareholders is the limit. (I am not sure on the actual number of shareholders but thats what I believe is correct, just know that it is less than 100, whereas a C-Corp is unlimited and unrestricted)
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someone wants to buy partial ownership of a company, and someone wants to sell partial ownership.  The stock is transferred, and fees are extracted for the service.  Someone eventually wins and someone loses, but the financial institutions make money on the trade no matter what.
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Just think this through for a minute.... say you get listed on the pink sheets.  How is anyone going to trade shares?  Naturally, they have to own them.  Which means you, or your company, have to sell them the shares in the first place.  And to do that, you have to register the shares with SEC -- regardless of whether they're traded on the pink sheets, OTCBB, Nasdaq or NYSE -- unless a registration from exemption applies.  But if you're planning on pink sheets trading, even if you can find an exemption it won't help b/c the securities you sell in an exempt offering would be restricted, i.e., the purchaser can't just turn around and sell them, they have to hold onto them (typically for a year).\n\nSo no, you can't avoid the hassle, you need to file a registration statement with SEC and, possibly, with the state securities regulator for every state in which you offer the shares.  Talk to a securities attorney.