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Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers by pjlegato on Friday February 19, 2016 @08:43PM (#11138220)
More typically, the company has the "right of first refusal" -- when a stockholder has an outside offer, they are first required to let the company buy their stock back at the price that the outsider is offering before selling to an outsider.

This is both to maintain control and to avoid having more than 500 shareholders, which triggers all kinds of additional regulations.

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Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers by throw2192015 on Friday February 19, 2016 @11:59PM (#11138934)
> This is both to maintain control and to avoid having more than 500 shareholders, which triggers all kinds of additional regulations.

I _think_ the JOBS Act of 2012 increased this to 2000 instead of 500.

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