The phrase "a controlling shareholder" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of corporate finance or business law to refer to a shareholder who owns a sufficient percentage of a company's shares to influence or control its decisions.
Example: "The board of directors must consider the interests of a controlling shareholder when making strategic decisions."
Alternatives: "majority shareholder" or "dominant shareholder".
In Wisconsin and Delaware, a controlling shareholder has the right to sell his or her shares.
There is often a pattern to "buy-in" deals like this one, in which a controlling shareholder seeks to buy the publicly held shares of a subsidiary.
She said: "Any transfer of wealth from a listed company to a controlling shareholder through related party vehicles have the potential to be detrimental to minority shareholders.
This is a flat-out requirement that any buyout by a controlling shareholder be approved by the majority of the noncontrolling shareholders.
Yet Cablevision is a classic example of a media firm where the interests of other shareholders can come second to those of a controlling shareholder.
Acquiring Corus, one of the few large producers of flat steel without a controlling shareholder, would let them bulk up and provide a way into Europe.
Taj hotels is a small part of this underperformance but Mr Mistry may have insisted that it gets its own house in order before it does any more empire-building.Just as Taj's problem may in part have been a forgiving controlling shareholder, Orient has also been insulated from shareholders' wrath.
Clearly, the concern here is that a Russian/Canadian controlling shareholder will divert jobs from Western Europe to Russia in order to prop up its flagging auto industry and tap its burgeoning market.
Mr. Lansdorp has set up Mars One as a nonprofit foundation, but it is the controlling shareholder in a for-profit company, Interplanetary Media Group, that owns the exclusive right to sell mission broadcast and advertising rights.
Its controlling shareholder, a trust that oversees the Milton Hershey School, has been working on fund-raising with Byron D. Trott, the former Goldman Sachs banker and Warren E. Buffett's longtime adviser.
Mr. Redstone's frayed relationship with his daughter makes the issue of who will succeed him as controlling shareholder — a question that hovers over the future of Viacom and CBS — much more difficult.
