Safeguard, challenge and enforce the shareholder dispute.
When resolutions are blocked, accounts drain or a co-shareholder creates facts, the sequence matters: first safeguards, evidence, inspection rights, challenge, preliminary injunction and then exclusion or exit.
Where are you now?
Choose your situation. Each row leads to review, tool and the matching clauses.
A resolution should be challenged
Attack flawed or void resolutions in time, before they create irreversible facts.
OpenNo access to figures and accounts
Enforce access to accounts, contracts and resolutions so the shareholder position is not starved.
OpenThe managing director withdraws assets
Stop asset outflows, accounts and management actions quickly through the court.
OpenDeadlock in the general meeting
Solve blocked resolutions strategically without pushing the company into insolvency.
OpenA co-shareholder should be excluded
Prepare breakdown, breach of fiduciary duty or damaging conduct as grounds for exclusion.
OpenCompensation after termination is disputed
Actually enforce payout, valuation and exit against a resisting co-shareholder.
OpenThree tools for a first orientation.
The tools provide a first orientation, not case-specific legal advice. Concrete assessment requires articles, register and factual context.
Safeguard triage
Five questions on accounts, access and time pressure. Result: which safeguard in which order.
OpenResolution challenge check
Six questions on resolution, notice and deadlines. Result: challenge or nullity path with a risk scale.
OpenExclusion assessment
Seven questions on breakdown, evidence and compensation. Result: readiness of an exclusion action.
OpenWhere we represent you in the conflict.
Core fields around safeguard, challenge, exclusion and enforcement.
Shareholder dispute, first safeguards
Before any filing or resolution, the safeguards decide: control accounts, register, customers and evidence.
Learn moreEnforce information and inspection rights
Enforce access to accounts, contracts and resolutions so the shareholder position is not starved.
Learn moreResolution challenge and nullity
Attack flawed or void resolutions in time, before they create irreversible facts.
Learn moreRemove managing director and review liability
Review removal of the managing director, immediate measures and potential personal liability.
Learn moreExclude a shareholder
Prepare breakdown, breach of fiduciary duty or damaging conduct as grounds for exclusion.
Learn moreBreak deadlock and stalemate
Solve blocked resolutions strategically without pushing the company into insolvency.
Learn morePreliminary injunction in shareholder disputes
Stop asset outflows, accounts and management actions quickly through the court.
Learn moreNot sure where you stand?
Five questions on accounts, access and time pressure. Result: which safeguard in which order.
Start safeguard triageTools, knowledge and checklists for the active dispute
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The tools provide a first orientation, not case-specific legal advice. Concrete assessment requires articles, register and factual context.
OpenGlossary
Legal attack on a flawed resolution.
OpenChecklists
What you should secure in the first 48 hours before escalation creates facts.
OpenJournal
Foundational notes on challenge, safeguard, exclusion and enforcement in the shareholder dispute.
OpenYour shareholder dispute team
BRANDAUER Rechtsanwälte
Dispute team for shareholders and managing directors
A shareholder dispute calls for corporate law, litigation strategy and commercial understanding from one team. Mag. Bernhard Brandauer is responsible for the legal advice; depending on the conflict, further specialised lawyers of the firm support safeguards, evidence, negotiations and court enforcement.
Contact the teamShort answers.
What should be my first step in a shareholder dispute?
First secure access to the register, accounts, contracts and digital systems before the co-shareholder creates facts. The substantive dispute follows only after that.
How fast must a resolution be challenged?
The challenge period is short and starts as a rule with the resolution or the knowledge. Without a timely action, the resolution becomes final.
When does a preliminary injunction help?
When asset transfers, incorrect register filings or unauthorised execution threaten in the short term. It secures the main proceedings.