An annual shareholder meeting is typically scheduled just after the end of the fiscal year. This allows for the previous year's financial performance to be fully assessed and discussed.
Most shareholder meetings are held as an annual general meeting (an “AGM”) or as a special general meeting, called by the directors of the corporation, to conduct business that is not required to be conducted at an AGM.
All shareholders must be notified of the format, date, time, and place of the meeting. How far in advance notices should be distributed may depend on your state, but generally, they should be sent out more than 10 days prior to the meeting, but less than 60 days.
If your business is set up and registered as a Corporation, you're required by law to hold an annual shareholder meeting and to document the meeting with minutes.
Once you have an agreed-upon agenda and setting for the meeting, the host can send a notice to all shareholders and board members invited to the AGM. Annual shareholder meetings require a notice period of at least 21 days. The notice period can be shortened with the expressed consent of all shareholders.
(a) initially, no more than 18 months after the company's date of incorporation; and. (b) thereafter, once in every calendar year, but no more than 15 months after the date of the previous annual general meeting, or within an extended time allowed by the Companies Tribunal, on good cause shown.
A General Meeting is simply a meeting of shareholders and 21 days' notice must be given to shareholders, but this can be reduced to 14 days, or increased to 28 days, in certain situations.
Shareholders' meetings are held annually. The company sets a record dateThe record date is the date on which a shareholder must be registered on the books of a company in order to receive dividends or exercise a right, such as the right to vote at the general meeting of shareholders.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), at least 21 days notice must be given of a meeting of a company's members. However, if a company has a constitution, it may specify a longer minimum period of notice.