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Cases · Business & ownership · Corporate ownership & governance

Protect an investment when a partner breaches the agreement

Our partner abroad is diluting or excluding us. How do we protect our investment?

WONE Global reviews the agreements and local remedies and acts through negotiation, injunctions or proceedings.

Countries in the typical case Netherlands · India

The situation

What is happening

A local partner or majority shareholder is diluting, diverting or excluding you.

What is at stake

Value leaks quickly once a partner controls the company and the bank account.

Who faces this

  • Corporations
  • Mid-sized companies
  • Private clients and families

A scenario

Industrial investorCorporation · from Netherlands · in India

Its Indian joint venture partner has shut it out of board decisions and financial information.

Where it ends Rights restored, or a fair exit.

A representative scenario of the work WONE Global coordinates, not a specific client’s matter.

Also asked as “Minority shareholder oppression abroad”“Partner diverting business from our joint company”“Minority shareholders say they are being excluded from decisions”

The solution

How WONE Global handles it

WONE Global reviews the agreements and local remedies and acts through negotiation, injunctions or proceedings.

Usually led by Disputes and arbitration, with Buying, selling and investing, Contracts and commercial law and Anti-bribery, sanctions and compliance.

Step by step, in the scenario

  1. Week 1Agreements and Indian remedies reviewed.
  2. Week 2Formal notice; information rights enforced.
  3. Weeks 3-8Negotiation, or a claim before the tribunal.
  4. ThenExit or restored rights.

Timings are typical. They depend on the countries, the authorities involved and how quickly documents are available.

Decisions

The decisions involved

  1. 01What the shareholders’ agreement and local law give you
  2. 02Negotiation, arbitration, court action or exit
  3. 03Urgent protection of assets and information

Outcomes

What you receive

  • A rights and remedies assessment
  • A strategy across the countries involved
  • Proceedings, negotiated exit or restored rights

This is a general guide. Your WONE Global professional confirms the work, timing and fees for your markets before anything starts.

Who handles it

Disputes and arbitration, market by market

The status of the lead service in the markets that matter for this case. A named WONE Global Partner acts under their own licence; where none is in place yet, WONE Global confirms availability before anything else.

  1. Indiain the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  2. Netherlandsin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  3. Argentina WONE Global Partner Dr. Silvia Patricia Maccari · Lawyer Brief this Partner →
  4. Kenya WONE Global Partner James Ngochi Ngugi · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  5. Poland WONE Global Partner Andrzej Zacharzewski · Partner Brief this Partner →
  6. Saudi Arabia WONE Global Partner Abdulrahim bin Saleh Al-Zahrani · Founding Partner & General Manager Brief this Partner →
  7. Zambia WONE Global Partner Reagan Blankfein Gates · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  8. Singapore On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  9. United Arab Emirates On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  10. United Kingdom On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  11. United States On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →

Other markets: WONE Global covers 100 countries. Name yours in the requirement →

Dr. Silvia Patricia MaccariPalermo · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Silvia Patricia Maccari

Lawyer · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Palermo

She is a lawyer, graduated from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. She took his first steps in the nation's judiciary, in the National Labor Court, where he developed a rapid caree…

Andrzej ZacharzewskiKraków · Poland

WONE Global Capability Partner · Poland

Andrzej Zacharzewski

Complete profile

Partner · Zacharzewski & Partners Law Office · Kraków

Attorney at Law. Co-founder of the law firm. Provides litigation services to banks and advises corporate clients in international trade. Supervises the work of the Litigation Department and the International Desk. Chair…

Reagan Blankfein GatesLusaka · Zambia

WONE Global Capability Partner · Zambia

Reagan Blankfein Gates

Managing Partner · Reagan Blankfein Gates Legal Practitioners · Lusaka

Reagan started his career in practice at Mainza & Company where he had interned while pursuing a bar qualification at the Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) in 2008. Upon being called to the bar, Reaga…

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