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Shareholder & partnership disputes

When the people who built the business stop trusting each other.

Aun & Co. acts in shareholder and partnership disputes in Israel: exclusion, deadlock, accounting claims and exits, litigated or negotiated from a mapped position.

Shareholder and partnership disputes begin long before any filing — in blocked distributions, side dealings and information that stops flowing. Israeli law gives minority and equal holders real tools, including the statutory oppression remedy under s.191 of the Companies Law, fiduciary duties of directors and controlling holders, and the contractual layer in founders' and partnership agreements. The firm maps who can prove what, then chooses between forcing a buy-out, restoring rights or unwinding the relationship.

The work spans
  • Oppression and exclusion claims by minority and equal shareholders
  • Defence of directors and controllers against breach-of-duty claims
  • Accounting, dividend and information-rights proceedings
  • Buy-out, valuation and separation mechanics inside litigation
  • Deadlock proceedings in fifty-fifty and family-held companies
  • Dividends stopped, salaries to the other side's family continued, and your questions go unanswered.
  • Your partner signed for the company in deals you learned about from third parties.
  • You hold fifty percent and the company cannot pass a single resolution.
  • You want out at a fair value and the majority's offer prices your stake at a fraction of it.

The corporate record is rebuilt first: registers, resolutions, bank movements and the informal channels where the real decisions were made. From that record the firm separates what is provable from what is merely felt, frames the strongest one or two legal theories, and opens on the front where the other side's own documents do the arguing. Valuation strategy is set early — most of these cases end at a price.

04 · What you get

Valuation set early

The buy-out endgame is priced from the start, so litigation pressure serves the number rather than replacing it.

The record rebuilt

Registers, resolutions and bank flows assembled into one chronology — the spine of both the pleading and the negotiation.

Family dynamics handled

Many Israeli companies are family companies; the firm litigates the legal claim while keeping the human exit routes open.

A typical engagement: a minority holder in a private company discovers management fees flowing to entities tied to the controller. The firm assembles the financial chronology, frames an oppression claim under s.191 of the Companies Law, and drives the matter toward a court-supervised valuation and exit.

Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.

What rights does a minority shareholder have in Israel?

Substantial ones: the oppression remedy under s.191 of the Companies Law, information and inspection rights, and the duties owed by directors and controlling shareholders. The court can order remedies as far-reaching as a forced buy-out of either side.

Can a court force one shareholder to buy out another?

Yes. In oppression proceedings Israeli courts can order a purchase of the aggrieved holder's shares at a court-determined valuation — one of the most common practical outcomes in closely held company disputes.

What documents matter most in a shareholder dispute?

The company's own paper: board and shareholder resolutions, financial statements, bank statements and the email traffic around key decisions. Cases are usually decided by the company's records, not by the parties' recollections.

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