"preferred shareholders" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to shareholders of a particular company who have special privileges or advantages not available to the regular shareholders. For example: "The preferred shareholders were given first choice of the company's new product."
Liquidation preferences provide that the preferred shareholders receive a minimum payment if the company is sold.
But it allows all involved investors to gulp down their liquidation preference payments at once, with seed preferred shareholders getting the same access to a payout as Series D investors.
This bid died when the preferred shareholders refused to accept changes to the terms of the preferred stock.
Consequently, the directors would have a fiduciary duty to act in good faith toward preferred shareholders.
For preferred shareholders the proposed dividend will be €2.32, up from €1.32 in 2010.
JURISDICTION IS DISPUTED Preferred Shareholders Demand $110 a Share if the Merger Plan is Approved.
Mr. Smulyan tried to take Emmis private in 2006 and again in 2010, with the last effort blocked by a failure to get support from enough preferred shareholders.
He argues that his strategy is not very different from a tactic companies sometimes use, of soliciting consents from bondholders or preferred shareholders at the same time as they tender for the securities.
This has become news now because one preferred shareholder, Joseph M. Sullivan, a Sacramento accountant, took it upon himself to assure that the preferred shares had more than 300 owners of record.
The club had just spent $200,000 on an underground heating system that had failed to work, and Lombardi strongly preferred that shareholders not know.
He said his membership would have preferred a shareholder access solution like the one proposed in 2003 by William Donaldson, then the S.E.C. chairman.
