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The Roberts family still controls a third of the company's voting interests.
Carter Hawley then completed a share repurchase program, which raised the employee stock ownership plan to 23 percent of the voting interests in the company, from 18 percent.
There's a case for protecting the autonomy of founders up to a point, but a misalignment of economic and voting interests can cause trouble.
There is a common idea of one share, one vote, so that your economic interests are the same as your voting interests".
Even though the Roberts family will own less than 1percentt of the company, it will control 33percentt of the company's voting interests -- effectively controlling the company because the other 67percentt will be distributed among millions of individual and institutional investors.
"Everyone will retain the same voting interests".
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Mr. Allen will continue as an investor and retain the largest voting interest in Charter.
AT&T, its controlling shareholder, has a 23percentt financial stake, but a 74percentt voting interest.
And other derivative strategies exist to do this – decouple the shareholder's economic interest from its voting interest.
The AT&T Corporation will keep its 31percentt equity stake in the Canadian telecom company and its 23percentt voting interest.
The authors found that dual-class stock could destroy value where the holders had a much more significant voting interest than an economic one.
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