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.There are different options regadering the proportion in which you give out depositary receipts: 1:1, 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, 1:20, 1:25, 1:50, 1:100, 1:1000. When making a choice it is important to take into account how many people will participate and what the value of a share is. For instance, if a share is valued at €100 and you want to keep the threshold for people to participate low, you could choose to give out 100 depositary receipts per share. Then a depositary receipt will be valued at €1. This does mean that the distribution that comes in on that share will be divided over 100 depositary receipts.
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 […]
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