The company decides who can be granted depositary receipts. There are for instance companies on our platform which have chosen to provide depositary receipts to contractors or suppliers as well!
Find out more.A company can sell or give out as many options as they want, even more than there are shares, but we advise against it. This is because the help of a notary is needed to emit new shares and this costs time and money. Next to this, it is very unclear for investors or other shareholders to see who now really owns what, or is entitled to what. This might cause unwanted uncertainties. If you make sure you have as many shares as you have given out options, a person that wishes to exercise their options can be helped immediately. This is why we facilitate to run a foundation holding these shares on which options are sold, and can immediately when needed give out a certificate of that share. Hence the advice is to give out only as many options as you have shares available. N.B. We are not indicating that it is not possible to give out more options. If more options are given out than shares are available, a notary will always have to guide every exercise of an option.
Business Valuation is something you will encounter at some point in your company’s development, probably sooner than you think. For employees, the value of their participation in the company may be more relevant. It is easy to get caught up in all the jargon, but really it is rather simple and I’ll try to explain here how it works and how it can be done.
Read moreWhat is a holding company? Here at Share Council it’s a common question that deserves more explanation. We often come across this item when setting up employee participation structures. A holding is not obligatory for employee participation, but it may come in handy. Briefly put, a holding entails that one BV holds shares in one […]
Read more
