Following a dispute between shareholders the minority shareholder filed a claim in which he requested a remedy of forced purchase of his shares by the control holder. The Court held that that the valuation of the shares will be carried out by an objective appraiser appointed by the Court and that the fact that the minority shareholder presented an agreement for the purchase of his shares does not change the objective value of the shares, under which they will be bought. An exception to this may be if the minority shareholder can show that the majority prevented such agreement
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