Control Agreements In Venture Capital Contracts

Document Type : Original Article

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Shahid Beheshti University

Abstract

Venture capital investment is one of the most important and most effective means of financing new businesses. In this type of investment, during the medium-term or long-term relationship with entrepreneurial enterprises while financing and providing management support for these types of businesses, investors terminate this relationship in different ways and exit the entrepreneurial enterprise at the time they find their benefits obtained. They seek to control and influence company decisions in order to maintain the capital and ensure the profit at the time of exit from investment. Given the fact that the amount of venture capital investment is generally less than 50% of the value of the entrepreneurial enterprise, the most important means of achieving this opportunity is to agree on the appointment of the board of directors and the protective provisions contained in the investment contracts, which are discussed in the present paper. It is concluded by providing an explanation of the legal materials governing joint-stock companies that the possibility of applying these agreements, in line with what is globally customary in the venture capital investment industry, is present in Iran as well.

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