Course Assignments
Unanimous Shareholder Agreement
Rationale for this assignment
Assignment Description
FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT, THERE IS NO NEED TO RESEARCH IN ANY LIBRARY OR ONLINE; THE ONLY TOOL YOU NEED IS YOUR BRAIN.
You will be working on the Unanimous Shareholder Agreement to produce two pages of content:
1st page = Contract structure form: This assignment requires you to submit your contract structure form completed for the shareholder agreement. We discussed the contract structure form in class. Decide where in the form each section fits, while keeping in mind that a section may fit under several parts of the form. List the appropriate sections of the agreement on the Contract Structure form (ex: 5.1.a).
2nd page = Your questions, comments, etc: Use the exemplar -’email reviewing franchise agreement’ as a guide for this page of assignment #1. Think of your 1-page report as your summary of the highlights of your annotations that you will use to guide your questions and comments in class. Use franchise exemplar as a model, but that one-page report need not be in the form of a letter. The essence of your report in this assignment is to write talking points for yourself to help you during our class discussions. The format would be to highlight section numbers together with your meaningful questions or comments various sections of the agreement. That is what my email regarding a franchise agreement is intended to exemplify. Your 1-page report demonstrates how much work you did for class prep. Delivering generic ideas regarding shareholder agreements is not sufficient. Your comments need to reflect the specific contract terms. That said, for context your readings for this assignment are pages 679 to 680 in Ch 26 of the 13e of the text (pages 626-627 of the 14e ). ENGAGE WITH THE WORDS IN THE AGREEMENT.
To generally understand the purpose of the assignments due before class, look at the ‘paper’ rubric posted on blackboard which describes the way that your written assignments will be evaluated. For this assignment, the rubric emphasizes Identify problems or issues (49%) and Integration of course concepts with text and context of agreement (48%). You are reading, reviewing, analyzing & thinking about the shareholder agreement and preparing for class discussion.
As discussed in class, you will probably want to make annotations or notes on your copy of the shareholder agreement to help you participate in class discussions regarding the contract structure.
I welcome questions by you in class or even better post them on Blackboard’s Bb’s ”Discussion boards”.