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Minutes of the National Courts' Civil and Commercial Trial Work Conference

全国法院民商事审判工作会议纪要

The Ninth Civil and Commercial Trial Minutes include influential guidance on company personality denial, external guarantees, representative authority, valuation-adjustment mechanisms, nominee shareholding, contribution acceleration, and corporate-governance defects in transactions.

Use It For

Use the personality-denial sections for personality confusion, excessive control, significant undercapitalization, and litigation posture. Use the company-guarantee sections when students analyze whether a counterparty may rely on a legal representative’s signature, what company resolutions must be checked, and how courts allocate risk after an unauthorized guarantee. Use the valuation-adjustment and nominee-shareholding sections for shareholder agreements, investment exits, and shareholder-status disputes.

Teaching Notes

Although minutes are not statutes, they are essential for understanding how courts organize the reasonableness inquiry in guarantee and representative-authority disputes.