​​Share transfer form for New Zealand companies​​Share transfer form for New Zealand companies

Transferring shares in New Zealand companies

New Zealand shareholders need to be aware that the constitutions and/or shareholder agreements of many limited liability companies contain pre-emptive rights. These require that a transferor offers shares for transfer to other existing shareholders before those shares can be offered to third parties or new shareholders.

If shares are being sold to a new shareholder, and there’s a shareholders’ agreement in place, a deed of accession should be signed to bind the new investors to the existing shareholders agreement. Once they’ve signed this, the new shareholder is required to comply with the provisions of the shareholders agreement.

Share transfer form

Sharesies Private provides all customers with an example share transfer form which can be used as a template for facilitating share transfers between investors. 

E-sign is built into the platform, allowing companies to complete the transfer process more easily. Just upload the share transfer form into the document signing feature, set up the document details, and then share with the buyers, sellers and witnesses for e-signatures.

Talk to us if you’d like to demo how this will work for your company.