Sentence examples for voting trusts from inspiring English sources

"The voting trusts are a vehicle to get a 'yes' vote on every item on the agenda," says Peter Paul de Vries, head of the Dutch Investors' Association (VEB).

When a company with this system issues shares, it does so to a voting trust, which retains the voting rights.

A majority of voting trustees must approve certain actions under the voting trust; in other instances, all four must agree.

Dorrance Hamilton and Hope van Beuren, the daughters of Elinor, formed a voting trust to pool their shares.

Since then, the family has given up its executive and board positions and put its stock into a voting trust.

Most if not all family members will put the additional distribution into the family's voting trust, he added.

In 1959, he stubbornly refused to renew the voting trust that would enable the banks to continue lending money to Seabrook Farms.

His 71percentt stake will be placed in a voting trust, whose trustees are to include Eugene Ludwig, a former comptroller of the currency, bank officials said.

Two other cousins, Hope van Beuren and Dorrance Hamilton, formed a voting trust and added Charles H. Mott, who is not a relative, to the board to represent their interests.

The filing disclosed that the employee stockholders of Bcom3 have placed their almost 15.4 million shares of Class A common stock in a voting trust, which the four executives oversee as voting trustees.

Adelphia's letter noted that it did not think that any change in control had taken place as a result of the transfer of stock from the family to a voting trust.