Guam § 3301 - Definitions.
Full text of Guam Guam Code Annotated § 3301 — Definitions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 3301. Definitions.
In this Chapter:
(a) “Beneficial stockholder” means the person who is a beneficial
owner of shares held in a voting trust or by a nominee as the record
stockholder.
(b) “Corporation” means the issuer of the shares held by a dissenter
before the corporate action, or the surviving or acquiring corporation by
merger or share exchange of that issuer.
(c) “Dissenter” means a stockholder who is entitled to dissent fron1
corporate action under § 3302 and who exercises that right when and in the
manner required by §§ 340l through 3409 of this Chapter.
(d) “Fair value,” with respect to a dissenter’s shares, means the value
of the shares immediately before effectuation of the corporate action to
which the dissenter objects, excluding any appreciation or depreciation in
anticipation of the corporate action.
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(e) “Interest” means interest from the effective date of the corporate
action until the date of payment, at the average rate currently paid by the
corporation on its principal bank loans or, if there are no loans, at a rate that
is fair and equitable under all the circumstances.
(f) “Record stockholder” means the person in whose name shares are
registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of shares
to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a
corporation.
(g) “Stockholder” means the record stockholder or the beneficial
stockholder.
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