Company disputes have a cruel clock: by the time an ordinary case decides who was right, the shares are allotted, the asset is sold, the register is changed — and unwinding completed corporate acts is slow, expensive and sometimes impossible. The injunction is company law’s pause button: the position preserved while the real dispute — the constitution, the shareholders’ agreement, directors’ duties, oppression — gets determined.
What Gets Restrained — and the Irreversibility Triage
The practical menu: board resolutions and their implementation; share allotments and transfers — the dilution manoeuvre restrained before the register changes; meetings and resolutions in breach of the constitution or shareholders’ agreement; and dealings with company assets pending resolution of control — the threatened sale of the crown jewels being core territory, reached by quia timet principles even before signing. The strategy discipline is the irreversibility triage: freeze what can’t be uncured later (allotments, transfers, mandates, the asset sale), litigate in due course what can (your removal as director is often better fought through the shareholder remedies that follow — unless it’s the gateway to the irreversible steps). Two constants: the documents are read first — half these battles were won or lost in the shareholders’ agreement signed years ago, deadlock machinery included; and the undertaking as to damages is sized honestly, because restraining transactions has real costs.
Deadlocks, OMCs — and the Endgame Discipline
Two special theatres. The 50/50 deadlock: urgent relief restrains the company’s funds becoming one side’s war chest and unilateral acts neither side has authority for — but the injunctions serve a destination: deadlocks resolve by one side buying the other out (agreement mechanisms, mediated deals, statutory remedies), and strategy here is built toward that endgame rather than the siege. Owners’ management companies: OMCs are companies, so the corporate toolkit applies to meetings, resolutions and directors acting outside their powers, alongside the Multi-Unit Developments Act framework — with proportionality pressed honestly (courts’ patience for flowerbed litigation is finite, costs can dwarf stakes, and the community lives together afterwards), which is why the resolution channels behind the Mediation Diploma are genuine here, not decorative. The firm’s wider corporate practice at companysolicitor.ie carries the full company-law terrain; this page is its urgent edge — and where the dispute’s money is moving too, Mareva relief runs alongside.
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