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Shareholders' Agreement

Also known as stockholders agreement, founders agreement, or shareholder contract.

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Agree among the shareholders of a private company on voting, board seats, funding, share transfers, deadlocks, and exits.

Heightened care. The legal consequences are significant. Read the notes below closely and consider having a Philippine lawyer look at it before you sign.

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What is a Shareholders' Agreement?

A Shareholders' Agreement is a written agreement that records what the people involved have promised to do for one another.

What this template does. Govern a Philippine private company with verified capitalization, lawful voting and board boundaries, reserved matters, funding, dilution, transfers, tax, deadlock, buyout, and exit controls.

Also searched as

  • stockholders agreement
  • founders agreement
  • shareholder contract
  • founder equity agreement

Commonly used by

  • Corporations
  • Founders
  • Investors

Legal considerations

Heightened care. Reconcile the agreement with the SEC record, articles, bylaws, board powers, stock and transfer book, beneficial ownership, nationality limits, securities rules, current share taxes, and any PCC control filing before relying on it.

How it is signed

Depends on the route you choose. How it must be signed depends on the choices you make in the questions. Your signing checklist states exactly which formalities apply to your version.

What it draws on

  • Revised Corporation Code
  • Securities Regulation Code
  • Civil Code
  • 13th Foreign Investment Negative List
  • Philippine Competition Act
  • Current BIR share-tax rules

The exact provisions, with links to the official text, are listed under the Philippine law behind it.

How to complete your Shareholders' Agreement

The guided interview takes you through 8 steps. The document updates as you answer, and some questions appear only when your earlier answers make them relevant.

  1. Step 1

    Confirm the corporate route

    Separate a private shareholders’ agreement from an issuance, transfer, public offer, regulated entity, or acquisition filing.

    Up to 15 questions
  2. Step 2

    Match the official corporation records

    The agreement must reconcile with the SEC record, articles, bylaws, capital structure, and stock and transfer book.

    Up to 15 questions
  3. Step 3

    Identify every participating shareholder

    Record registered ownership, voting rights, authority, paid status, and beneficial ownership without unnecessary personal identifiers.

    Up to 43 questions
  4. Step 4

    Design lawful governance

    Coordinate shareholder votes without silently displacing the board or mandatory corporate rules.

    Up to 11 questions
  5. Step 5

    Set capital and economic rules

    Plan dividends, future funding, issuances, preemptive rights, dilution, and service-linked equity without promising impossible returns.

    Up to 8 questions
  6. Step 6

    Control future share transfers

    Build a usable sequence for restrictions, first refusal, tag, drag, valuation, tax, and the stock-book transfer—without open deeds.

    Up to 11 questions
  7. Step 7

    Plan rights, deadlock, and exit

    Use evidence-based cure and valuation steps while preserving regulators, creditors, workers, and nonwaivable rights.

    Up to 11 questions
  8. Step 8

    Execute and preserve the agreement

    Finish the effective period, accessions, amendments, notices, signatures, identical copies, and evidence trail.

    Up to 12 questions

Sample Shareholders' Agreement

This is how the opening of a finished document reads. Every name, address, and amount is invented. Your own document is built from your answers, so its wording changes with them.

13 clauses, about 2,935 words in the complete sample.

Shareholders’ Agreement

Bayanihan Workflow Systems, Inc. · Ordinary private stock-corporation route · Template v0.2.0

PARTIES, PURPOSE, AND LIMITED EFFECT

This Shareholders’ Agreement (the “Agreement”) takes effect on August 31, 2026 among the shareholders listed below concerning Bayanihan Workflow Systems, Inc., SEC Registration No. CS202401234, with principal office at Unit 1204, Meridian Corporate Center, 30th Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City 1634.

Purpose: Govern the long-term ownership, decision-making, funding, information access, transfer, succession, and exit relationship of two founders operating a Philippine business-to-business software company.

The Agreement governs only the parties’ contractual rights and how they exercise shareholder rights. It does not itself issue, subscribe, sell, endorse, deliver, cancel, redeem, or transfer a share; amend articles or bylaws; elect or remove a director; bind the Corporation when it is not a valid party; or replace a board, stockholder, SEC, BIR, PCC, regulator, court, or stock-and-transfer-book act required by law.

The parties represent that all issued and outstanding shares are held by signatories, subject to verification against the capitalization record.

No listed, public-offer, public-interest, regulated, foreign-corporation, OPC, or foreign-participation status is represented after the stated review. Current route: Ordinary private stock-corporation route.

No control transaction is represented as planned. A later acquisition, joint venture, drag sale, or control change requires a fresh PCC analysis using the thresholds and rules then effective.

CORPORATE RECORD AND CAPITALIZATION

Primary purpose and current business: Develop, license, implement, and support business workflow software and related professional services for Philippine and overseas enterprise customers.

Governing-record evidence: SEC-filed Articles of Incorporation dated 12 January 2024, Bylaws dated 15 February 2024, current 2026 GIS, and signed corporate books reconciled on 30 August 2026. The Corporation is not represented as a statutory close corporation.

As of August 30, 2026: Authorized capital of PHP 10,000,000 divided into 1,000,000 common voting shares with PHP 10 par value; no preferred, nonvoting, treasury, option, or convertible securities are outstanding. Issued and outstanding shares: 100,000; total voting shares: 100,000.

Stock and transfer book, certificate, subscription, lien, and transfer evidence: Stock and Transfer Book pages 1–4 records only Certificate Nos. 001 and 002, no cancellation, transfer, pledge, lien, adverse claim, option, or lost-certificate proceeding, reconciled to subscriptions and the general ledger.

The participating holders account for 100,000 shares (100.00% of issued and outstanding shares) and 100,000 voting shares (100.00% of total voting shares). Percentages are evidence calculations from the stated record, not a substitute for the stock and transfer book.

SHAREHOLDER SCHEDULE

Shareholder 1: Maria Elena Santos, individual, Filipino, of 24 Sampaguita Street, Barangay Sacred Heart, Quezon City 1103. Authority: Registered holder acting personally after government-ID, capacity, subscription, and stock-book verification. Holds 60,000 Common voting shares, of which 60,000 are voting shares. Fully paid according to verified subscription and corporate accounting records. Beneficial-owner record: Direct natural-person beneficial owner verified in the current corporate compliance record.

Shareholder 2: Ana Lucia Reyes, individual, Filipino, of 88 Acacia Avenue, Barangay Kapitolyo, Pasig City 1603. Authority: Registered holder acting personally after government-ID, capacity, subscription, and stock-book verification. Holds 40,000 Common voting shares, of which 40,000 are voting shares. Fully paid according to verified subscription and corporate accounting records. Beneficial-owner record: Direct natural-person beneficial owner verified in the current corporate compliance record.

CORPORATION AS PARTY

The Corporation joins only through Maria Elena Santos, President under this authority: Board Resolution No. 2026-18 adopted at a properly called meeting on 30 August 2026 authorizes the Corporation to sign the exact final agreement and perform only the stated corporate covenants.

Corporate covenants operate only within the Corporation’s lawful powers, valid approvals, governing documents, solvency and capital rules, fiduciary duties, and the rights of nonparties. A shareholder cannot promise a corporate act that the shareholder lacks power to cause.

BOARD, SHAREHOLDER VOTING, AND RESERVED MATTERS

Board composition: The articles state a three-director board. Maria may nominate one qualified candidate, Ana may nominate one, and both shareholders jointly nominate the independent third candidate, subject always to lawful election and removal by the shareholders.

Nomination and election: Each party votes its shares for the nominated candidates at a properly called election using the cumulative-voting rights required by law; vacancies, removal, disqualification, holdover, and replacement follow the Code, articles, bylaws, and valid corporate process.

Voting coordination: Before each shareholder vote, the parties receive the agenda and material records, consult in good faith, disclose conflicts, and vote their own shares consistently with the express reserved-matter commitments and mandatory law.

Reserved matters require 75% approval of the participating voting interests where the decision lawfully belongs to shareholders: Amendment of articles or bylaws; creation or issuance of shares, options, or convertibles; waiver of preemptive rights; merger, sale of substantially all assets, dissolution, or change of primary purpose; dividends outside policy; borrowing, guarantees, or security above PHP 2,000,000; related-party transactions; annual budget; material IP transfer; and litigation settlement above PHP 1,000,000, each acted on by the legally proper corporate body.

Notice, quorum, adjournment, and anti-boycott safeguards: Use the quorum in law and the valid articles or bylaws, give at least ten calendar days' notice with agenda and records, permit lawful remote participation, allow one adjournment for a failed quorum, and reconvene without eliminating any mandatory quorum or voting requirement.

For an ordinary corporation, the board exercises corporate powers and manages the business. The parties may coordinate lawful shareholder votes, but a contractual veto does not silently transfer statutory board discretion or validate an act lacking the required board or shareholder approval.

The rest of the document covers

  • MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION, BUDGET, AND CONFLICTS
  • DIVIDENDS, FUNDING, AND DILUTION
  • TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS AND PERMITTED TRANSFERS
  • VALUATION, PAYMENT, AND TRANSFER COMPLETION
  • CONFIDENTIALITY, DATA, AND FAIR COMPETITION
  • DEADLOCK, BREACH, SUCCESSION, AND BUYOUT
  • DISPUTE RESOLUTION
  • TERM, ACCESSION, AMENDMENT, NOTICE, AND EXECUTION
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