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This is to remind you that as CEO of a publicly traded company, you have fiduciary duties.
Many small businesses are organized as corporations, and sometimes solicit investments from shareholders outside of the company's management. Shareholders ultimately have control over the corporation's board of directors. In most small businesses, these directors technically hire the CEO. The CEO's legal duties, expectations and responsibilities generally extend from this corporate hierarchy. A CEO's failure to uphold the responsibilities of his office can result in personal liability for the company's debt and legal actions from shareholders.
Basic Job Description
The chief executive officer and other corporate officers represent the company in all of its regular operations. The CEO acts on the small business's behalf in most legal matters, and thus holds the authority to bind the corporation in contracts, debt obligations and legal proceedings. The extent of a CEO's power to make unilateral decisions for the business varies according to the business's governing documents, which are legally enforceable. The CEO reports directly to the board of directors.
Fiduciary Duties
Both the board of directors and the CEO of a small business have a fiduciary responsibility to the business's shareholders. The fiduciary duties are legal concepts that form the basis of a CEO's legal relationship with his company's owners. According to the American Bar Association, courts have ruled that a CEO's relationship with his small business's shareholders carries more legal responsibility than his relationship with his company's creditors. This is because the creditors' relationship with the company exists purely as a result of a legal contract. The shareholders' relationship with the CEO, by contrast, entails both a binding contract and the trust of that CEO in controlling the shareholders' property.
Duties of Care, Loyalty and Disclosure
A CEO's legal responsibilities to his company's shareholders are broken down into three distinct fiduciary duties: the duty of care, the duty of loyalty and the duty of disclosure. The duty of care refers to the CEO's responsibility to consider all of the available information relevant to business decisions, including the advice of experts and employees. The duty of care also includes the responsibility to understand and evaluate the company's day to day operations and the terms of agreements. The duty of loyalty requires that a CEO always acts in the best interest of a business's shareholders, and that he places that interest above his own in business decisions. This includes the responsibility to avoid conflicts of interest. Finally, the fiduciary duty of disclosure mandates that a CEO fully inform both the board of directors and the shareholders about the major issues facing the business.
Business Judgment Rule
In legal proceedings, the business judgment rule typically protects the CEO from the corporation's liabilities and losses. This rule basically states that a CEO is not personally responsible for the shareholders' losses if he acted honestly, openly and with the best interest of his company in mind. Under the business judgment rule, it is the responsibility of shareholders to demonstrate a CEO's failure to uphold his fiduciary responsibilities. In limited circumstances, such as the sale of the small business to a new owner, the business judgment rule does not apply, and it becomes the burden of CEOs and company directors to demonstrate that their actions were in the company's best interests.
Source: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/legal-relationship-between-shareholders-ceos-33637.html
We did our part, now do yours. I hope you are intelligent enough this time to take the right decision, and use only the necessary ratio to put the price between $5 and $7.
Do NOT use the 85 ratio. If you do that, you can count with a lawsuit from me.
I am talking only for myself, but, I am in contact with many shareholders, and I know that many are ready to do the same.
The ball is in your court.
You know who I am.
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