If you are wondering how to terminate a stakeholder on the Eqvista platform, then you are in the right place. Eqvista is a very easy-to-use application where each step is simple and straightforward.

Here is the step by step process on how to terminate a stakeholder on Eqvista.

Step 1: Log into your Eqvista account and select the desired company profile. 

Before we can move ahead, it is important for you to understand that you cannot terminate a stakeholder without claiming back all the shares that they own or until they transfer the shares to someone else. So, before you move ahead and terminate a stakeholder, you need to transfer the shares they hold or delete the grant they were offered.

For this, click on “Securities” on the left-hand panel of the dashboard. A drop-down menu will appear. From the menu, click on “Equities”. You will be directed to the following page like shown below. This page will show you all the equity classes that are there in the company.

Securities

If you are not sure about the class from which the stakeholder owns the shares from, you can check it from the stakeholder’s profile. For this, click on shareholder on the left-side menu and then on the name of the stakeholder, to see their complete details including the name of the equity class from which they own the shares.

In this case, we are selecting “Class A”. After clicking on “Class A”, you will be directed to the next page where you can easily see those who have been issued shares from this class.

Now, there are four things that you can do – delete the grant, cancel the grant, repurchase the shares or transfer the shares. We would take both examples for four different stakeholders and show how it is done below.

SITUATION 1 – DELETING A GRANT

Click on the certificate number of the stakeholder that you want to terminate by deleting this person’s grant. In this case, we select “CS-1001”.

Step 2: After clicking on the certificate number, you would be directed to the page of the certificate that shows the shares that have been issued to the respective stakeholder. In this case, Tania Jones is issued shares from Class A and the certificate name is CS-1001. You can see the details as shared below.

Delete Grant

Here, click on the “Actions” button on the upper right-hand side of the page. A drop-down menu will appear. Click on “Delete Grant” from it.

By clicking on this, a new panel will appear asking you if you are sure that you want to delete this grant. It would also warn you that deleting this grant would return the shares to Class A and delete the grant from the system.

Confirm and Delete

To delete, select “Confirm and Delete”, and the grant would be deleted as shown below.

Delete process completes

As the process completes, you will then be taken back to the equity page again.

equity page

In the above example, you can see that the certificate “CS-1001” has been removed. This means that the stakeholder “Tania Jones” can now be terminated. The termination process would be discussed in step 3.

SITUATION 2 – TRANSFERRING THE SHARES

But before we move ahead, let us imagine that the stakeholder wants to transfer the shares to another stakeholder. Taking this situation, let us take another stakeholder “Taylor Stark” who would also be terminated from the company.

Step 2: In this case, you would have to click on the certificate number, which in this case is “CA-006” as shown below.

 click on the certificate number

By clicking on this, you would be directed to the page that shows all the details of the grant as shown above.

Transfer Shares

Here, click on the button that says “Action” as you did before, and this time, from the drop-down menu, select the option “Transfer Shares”. Once you do this, you would get a new panel as shown above.

From here, you need to select if you want to make a partial or full transfer of shares. Since you want to remove the shareholder, you need to select the option of full transfer so that the stakeholder does not have any shares in their hand. Or, you can also select partial transfer also.

Choose a full transfer if you want to transfer all the shares to just one other stakeholder. And if you want to transfer the number of shares to multiple different stakeholders, you would need to select the option of “Partial Transfer” and re-do the steps till all the shares have been transferred. In this case, we selected “transfer all shares”.

transfer all shares

Type in the shareholder’s name to whom you want to transfer the shares to. In this case, we selected Maria. When you type in the name in the field, the name will appear on the right side with a “select” button. This only happens if the shareholder’s profile has already been created. Click on “Select”.

Note: Learn how to create a shareholder’s profile here. Also, learn how to transfer shares properly here!

Submit transfer

Select the equity class from where the shares would be given and check/add other details. Once done, click on “Submit transfer”.

With this, you would be directed back to the new grant page where you can now see Maria’s share certificate based on the transferred shares.

new grant page

With this, the stakeholder named “Elizabeth Jenkins” doesn’t have any shares now and can be terminated as shown in the next step.

SITUATION 3 – REPURCHASING SHARES

In this process, the company repurchases the shares back from the shareholder and with the shareholder does not hold the shares in the company again.

Step 2: For that, go to the equity class under which the shareholder was given shares from.

From the equity page here, we selected “Class A” and then the share certificate number, which is “Trans from CS-121”.

click on the share number

When you click on the share number, you will reach the page where you can see the grant details. Here, click on “Actions” and then on “repurchase shares”.

repurchase shares

With this, a new panel will appear where you will have to select if you want to perform a partial repurchase of shares or repurchase all the shares. For you to terminate a shareholder, you will need to repurchase all the shares. So, in this case, we select “Repurchase all shares” and then check the rest of the details.

Submit repurchase

And then click on “Submit repurchase”. The shares would be repurchased by the company with this and you will be redirected to the main equity class page.

SITUATION 4 – CANCELING THE GRANT

This process is a lot like deleting a grant in a company. Just that deleting means removing the transaction completely from the company records. While canceling the grant takes place when you want to remove the shareholder from the company and cancel their deal. So, you cancel the grant. The transaction record still stays.

Step 2: From the equity class page (in this case Class A), select the share certificate number that you want to cancel.

select the share certificate number for cancel

Here, we selected “Trans from CA-006”. This will lead you to the grant page.

Cancel grant

Click on “Actions” and then on “Cancel grant” to cancel the grant. A new panel will appear asking you if you are sure you want to cancel the grant. The shares would be put back in the Class A equity class but the transaction would still be visible in the company’s records.

Submit cancelation

Add the cancellation date in the field available and then click on “Submit cancelation”. With this, the cancellation would be finalized. You will then get the following message and from here you can move to the next step or restore the grant.

restore the grant

Since you want to terminate the stakeholder, you can then go to the next step from here.


Step 3: Once you are done with any of the above processes to remove the shares that the stakeholder has, you can move onto the next step. Get back on the main dashboard and select “shareholders” on the left-side panel of the dashboard to reach the page where you can see all the shareholders.

select the name of that stakeholder that you want to terminate

On this page, you will be able to see the list of all the stakeholders of the company. Assuming that you want to terminate one/two, you would have to select the name of that stakeholder that you want to terminate from the company.

In this case, we selected “Elizabeth Jenkins”.


Step 4: As soon as you select the name of the stakeholder, you will be directed to the main page that shows all the details of this particular stakeholder as shown below.

Delete shareholder

On this page, there is an option on the upper right-hand side that says “Delete” beside the option “Edit Information”. The “Delete” option allows you to delete the stakeholder from the company. So, click on “Delete”.

Note: You will be able to see that the shareholder has no transactions in the company. This is important for deleting the stakeholder from the company. That is why the previous steps were taken.


Step 5: By clicking on “Delete”, a dialogue box will appear as shown below.

dialogue box to terminate shareholder

In this dialogue box, you would be asked if you want to delete the stakeholder or not. And since you want to terminate the stakeholder, select “Delete”.

Once you do this, the stakeholder would be terminated from the company profile. You can also terminate the second or other stakeholders in this way.

If you want to know more or understand any other process, check out the other support articles here or contact us!

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