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A shareholders agreement in a jurisdiction
A shareholders agreement is not a template dump. It is a matter in a jurisdiction, linked to the same company book.
Formation is a jurisdiction plus a company. The sample brief is South Africa, company formation, with a personal-account bridge treated as a loan rather than a SAFE. Delaware is the issuer row on the sample book (Northwind Holdings). The library joins the shareholders agreement, the jurisdiction, and the company. We do not emit a page for every city and every practice. Open Counsel when you need the paper.
Two jurisdictions on the sample company
| Place | Paper | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | Shareholders agreement | Sample brief · formation | Companies Act 71 of 2008 is named; we do not invent a section-45 quote |
| Delaware | Personal-account formation loan | Issuer row · cap table | Delaware law is not another country’s company code |
Clause-by-clause on the sample book
| Clause | Status | Bind |
|---|---|---|
| Parties / company name | bound | Northwind Holdings (trial) |
| Issued split | bound | Alice Founder 40% Common · ESOP 10% · Seed 50% Preferred |
| Vesting | empty | Not filled in on the sample book |
| Drag / tag | empty | Not marked true on the sample book |
| B-BBEE (ZA) | empty | Not filled in on the sample book |
| IP assignment | story | Teaching story — not a statute excerpt |
| Formation capital | bound | Personal account is a loan, not a SAFE |
Same company book
| Holder | Class | Shares | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Founder | Common | 4,000,000 | 40 |
| ESOP pool | Common | 1,000,000 | 10 |
| Seed SPV | Preferred | 5,000,000 | 50 |
- Matter
- Shareholders agreement
- Capital
- Personal wire → loan, not a SAFE
- Where it lives
- Same company as the Holdings book
- Counsel
- Free for seekers · open Counsel on this company
Counsel is a person in a jurisdiction. Faces belong on the counsel-match page, not on this library page. Opening the book is free. This page does not file your entity. We do not invent state filing fees.
Questions this page can answer
- Do you publish every city?
- No. South Africa and Delaware on the sample company. Open Counsel when you need the paper.
- Is the personal wire a SAFE?
- No. Formation capital in a personal account is a purpose-restricted loan. A person cannot issue a SAFE.
- Do you file fifty US states?
- No. List the team split first on /learn/start-before-stamp. We do not file your entity for you.
- Is this a contract-management product?
- No. Clause slots here are intake on this company. Matching a lawyer is the Counsel door.
- Why these two places?
- They are the sample brief and the sample issuer on the free trial book.