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Oak Investment Partners XII v Boughtwood [2009] EWHC 176 (Ch), [2009] All ER (D) 67 (Feb)

19 February 2009
Issue: 7357 / Categories: Case law , Company , Commercial
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Company Law

Where a significant shareholder is, as a result of being such a shareholder, appointed to a management role within the company and then engages in a course of conduct in that role involving improper assertion of rights of control over the practical management of the affairs of the company, that conduct is capable of being conduct of the affairs of the company in an unfairly prejudicial manner for the purposes of s 994 of the Companies Act 2006.

There is no reason in principle why conduct by a person employed as a senior manager in a business, even if not a director, should not be relevant to the grant of relief under s 994. Complaint may be made under s 994 even if the mismanagement is not the product of business decisions taken by the board of a company, but by individual directors or others.

Issue: 7357 / Categories: Case law , Company , Commercial
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