Dictionary
This is the legal dictionary of AMS Advocaten, a treasure trove of information about important, current, well-known and lesser-known legal terms.
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A
- Absence
- Absolute majority
- Absolute priority rule
- Accounting obligation
- Acquisition balance sheet
- Actio Pauliana
- Actual policymaker
- Agency agreement
- Annual meeting
- Annual report / directors’ report
- Appointment
- Arbitration clause
- Articles of association
- Asset purchase agreement (APA)
- Assets
- Association
- Attorney-in-fact in the Netherlands
- Audit opinion
- Audit opinion
- Authorized capital
B
C
- Capital depreciation
- Capital maintenance
- Cash out option
- Class (WHOA)
- Co-option
- Collective liability
- Confirmation
- Consolidation requirement / consolidated financial statements
- Consumer
- Consumer sale
- Contract price
- Contract takeover
- Contractor agreement
- Convening of a (shareholders’) meeting
- Conversion (of a void legal act)
- Cooling-off period
- Cooling-off period
- Cooperative, cooperative association
- Corporate governance
- Corporate Governance Code
- Corporate Opportunity
- Corporate takeover
- Cram down
- Cross-class cram down
D
- Deadlock
- Debt for equity swap
- Debtor in possession
- Dependent right
- Depository receipt for shares
- Derative loss
- Derivative loss (doctrine)
- Directors’ liability and officers’ liability
- Directors’s report
- Discharge from liability
- Disclosure requirement
- Distribution agreement
- Dividend
- Drag-Along Rights
- Dutch Commercial Register
- Dutch partnership
E
F
G
H
I
J
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
- Security rights
- Severance package
- Share
- Share issue
- Share purchase agreement (SPA)
- Shareholders’ agreement
- Shareholders’ meeting
- Shareholders’ register
- Shareholders’ resolution
- Sister company
- Slander
- Split-off, divestiture
- Squeeze-out procedure
- Start declaration
- Stock merger
- Subject-matter jurisdiction
- Subscribed capital
- Subsidiary
- Substantial interest
- Supervisory director