bearer share

Analysts said the price of bearer shares had been helped by their scarcity.

Company ownership can be readily concealed through the use of anonymous "bearer shares".

These nominees issue Swiss certificates that can be traded like bearer shares.

Physically possessing a bearer share accords ownership of the corporation.

The Swiss system provides for separate registered shares and bearer shares.

The Baer family, which owns some 54 percent of the company's bearer shares, denies any intent to sell.

Advertisements may be required, particularly if there are untraceable shareholders or bearer shares in existence.

The Principality's laws permit the corporations it charters to issue bearer shares.

StS issued bearer shares, Sekyra had a stake in the company.

There is no requirement for reporting the transfer of bearer shares, and not every jurisdiction requires that their serial numbers even be recorded.

The capital structure is typically Swiss, consisting of 16,000 bearer shares and 61,440 dividend-rights certificates, without voting rights.

Mr Braley was also given a two-year sentence for the theft of four bearer share certificates.

The shares are either bearer shares or registered shares.

Bearer shares - Are a legal instrument denoting company ownership, and are usually in the form of share warrants.

In the case of Nestle, one-third of the shares are bearer shares, which can be owned by anyone.

The premium of the bearer shares to the registered shares has shrunk from 102 percent to 13 percent.

It is fortunate that bearer shares are such a rarity for if they became common it would play havoc with many provisions of the Act.

As bearer shares, the company has no record of who owns them, but they have the same voting and dividend rights as the ordinary shares.

Registered capital amounting to CZK 6.5 million was issued in the form of bearer shares.

Nestle now will allow any foreigner to own up to 3 percent of the registered shares, as well as all the bearer shares desired.

Bearer shares can be owned by anyone, while registered shares are owned only by Swiss citizens and institutions.

Most of the bearer shares are held by the Sacher family, which is related to the founding Hoffmann family by marriage.

Two other classification systems are used as well: classification based on market capitalisation (small, middle, large) and security category (registered shares, bearer share, participation certificates).

Every nominal share of Victoria could be exchanged for ten bearer shares of ERGO.

In 2011, an OECD peer review recommended that the United Kingdom improve its bearer share laws.