INVESTMENTS AND SECURITIES ACT

Section 130: Rights of a dissenting shareholder to compel acquistion of his shares

2007Section 130 of 316Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) This section shall apply where, in pursuance of any such scheme of merger, shares in a company are transferred to another company or its nominee, and those shares together with any other shares in the first- mentioned company held by, or by a nominee for the transferee company or its subsidiary at the date of the transfer comprise or include nine-tenths in value of the shares in the first-mentioned company or of any class of those shares.
(2) The transferee company shall within one month from the date of the transfer (unless on a previous transfer in pursuance of the scheme or contract it has already complied with this requirement) give notice of that fact in the prescribed manner to the holder of the remaining shares or of the remaining shares of that class, as the case may be, who have not assented to the scheme or contract.
(3) Any such holder may, within three months from the giving of the notice to him, require the transferee company to acquire the shares in question.
(4) If a shareholder gives notice under subsection (3) of this section with respect to any shares, the transferee company shall be entitled and bound to acquire those shares on the terms on which under the scheme or contract the shares of the approving shareholders were transferred to it, or on such other terms as may be agreed on as the court hearing the application of either the transferee company or the shareholder thinks fit.

Cite this section

Section 130, INVESTMENTS AND SECURITIES ACT (2007).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/investments-and-securities-act/section/130/