Release Date:

13 August 2009

Author:

Rowena Herdman-Smith

Source:

Director of Finance online

Rowena Herdman-Smith writes: Recessions prompt a stark increase in shareholder disputes, particularly those where the shareholders are also directors of the business. Often this is a result of funding deals sealed in the sweetness of the boom gone sour; where private equity reassesses what it bought or owners find the promised funding is not delivered.