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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62037</law_id><section_number>13.1-731</section_number><catch_line>Assertion of rights by nominees and beneficial owners</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="13.1">Corporations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="9">Virginia Stock Corporation Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="15">Appraisal Rights and Other Remedies</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A <span class="dictionary">record shareholder</span> may assert appraisal rights as to fewer than all the <span class="dictionary">shares</span> registered in the <span class="dictionary">record shareholder</span>&#x2019;s name but owned by a <span class="dictionary">beneficial shareholder</span> or a <span class="dictionary">voting trust beneficial owner</span> only if the <span class="dictionary">record shareholder</span> <span class="dictionary">objects</span> with respect to all <span class="dictionary">shares</span> of the class or series owned by the <span class="dictionary">beneficial shareholder</span> or the <span class="dictionary">voting trust beneficial owner</span> and notifies the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> in <span class="dictionary">writing</span> of the name and address of each <span class="dictionary">beneficial shareholder</span> or <span class="dictionary">voting trust beneficial owner</span> on whose behalf appraisal rights are being asserted. The rights of a <span class="dictionary">record shareholder</span> who asserts appraisal rights for only part of the <span class="dictionary">shares</span> held of record in the <span class="dictionary">record shareholder</span>&#x2019;s name under this subsection shall be determined as if the <span class="dictionary">shares</span> as to which the <span class="dictionary">record shareholder</span> <span class="dictionary">objects</span> and the <span class="dictionary">record shareholder</span>&#x2019;s other <span class="dictionary">shares</span> were registered in the names of different <span class="dictionary">record shareholders</span>. <a id="paragraph-226387" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-731/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> A <span class="dictionary">beneficial shareholder</span> or a <span class="dictionary">voting trust beneficial owner</span> may assert appraisal rights as to <span class="dictionary">shares</span> of any class or series held on behalf of the shareholder only if such shareholder: <a id="paragraph-226388" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-731/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Submits to the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> the <span class="dictionary">record shareholder</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">written</span> consent to the assertion of such rights no later than the date referred to in subdivision B 2 b of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Appraisal notice and form" href="/13.1-734/">13.1-734</a>; and <a id="paragraph-226389" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-731/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Does so with respect to all <span class="dictionary">shares</span> of the class or series that are beneficially owned by the <span class="dictionary">beneficial shareholder</span> or the <span class="dictionary">voting trust beneficial owner</span>. <a id="paragraph-226390" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-731/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 13-85, 13.1-75, 13.1-78; 1956, c. 428; 1968, c. 733; 1972, c. 425; 1975, c. 500; 1984, c. 613; 1985, c. 522; 2005, c. 765; 2019, c. 734.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
