Abstract

The article discusses a topical issue arousing controversies in business practice concerning the authority to exclude company shareholders from participating in meetings.

The authors first focus on the potential causes of exclusion of a shareholder from participating in a general meeting listing formal and factual reasons.

Then the authors proceed to discussing the powers of individual entities/bodies to deny the shareholders the right to participate in a meeting, with the court, the management board of the company, the meeting as a whole, and the emanations of that body singled out from the catalogue of potentially authorized entities.

The article outlines latest views presented in case law and literature in this respect.