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Business Breakup Tools

Useful clarity.
Before the first call.

These tools help you organise the problem, understand the questions and prepare for focused legal advice. They do not replace it.

01 / Main conversion tool

Business Breakup Assessment

Get a tailored snapshot of the pressure points, urgency and next steps in four to five minutes.

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10 questionsStrategic action recommendedConfidential · No obligation
02 / Control

Shareholding Control Calculator

Model shareholding and voting rights against common ordinary and special resolution thresholds.

Potential position
  • You are unlikely to pass an ordinary resolution alone, which normally requires more than 50% of votes cast.
  • You may potentially block a special resolution, which normally requires at least 75% of votes cast.
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Important: This is a general educational tool, not legal advice. Actual rights depend on the company’s articles, shareholders’ agreement, class rights, voting arrangements, attendance and the facts. A result does not create a solicitor-client relationship.

03 / Proportionality

Business Breakup Cost Planner

Map the phases that may be needed and see why cost exposure changes, without pretending to quote a dispute.

Which phases should the plan illustrate?
Indicative cost exposureContained

This is not a price or litigation quote. It illustrates how exposure grows as more phases and complexity are added.

  1. 01 · Initial adviceDocuments, chronology, rights, urgent risks and a recommended route.
  2. 02 · NegotiationStrategy, correspondence, offers, valuation issues and settlement terms.

Ask about: scope, assumptions, counsel and expert fees, VAT, court fees, adverse costs, insurance and review points.

Plan a proportionate route →

Important: This is a general educational tool, not legal advice. Actual rights depend on the company’s articles, shareholders’ agreement, class rights, voting arrangements, attendance and the facts. A result does not create a solicitor-client relationship.

04 / Preparation

Shareholder Exit Checklist

A downloadable working list for the documents, risks and commercial decisions to consider before negotiating an exit.

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Enter your details to unlock a practical preparation list you can save and work through.

05 / Diagnosis

Deadlock Diagnostic

Answer six structural questions. The result identifies the areas a solicitor would usually investigate.

01Is voting control effectively 50/50?
02Is the board also evenly split?
03Is there a shareholders’ agreement?
04Does it contain a deadlock process?
05Are important decisions currently blocked?
06Is trading, banking or staff stability being affected?
Diagnostic

Answer all six questions to see the areas a solicitor would usually investigate.

Important: This is a general educational tool, not legal advice. Actual rights depend on the company’s articles, shareholders’ agreement, class rights, voting arrangements, attendance and the facts. A result does not create a solicitor-client relationship.

Tools organise. Advice decides.

Turn the result into a strategy.

Bring your result to a confidential first conversation with the KaurMaxwell disputes team.

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