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English translation: AGM / OGM (ordinary general meeting)

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French term or phrase:	A.G.O.A.
English translation:	AGM / OGM (ordinary general meeting)
Entered by:	Conor McAuley

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09:06 Dec 4, 2006

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Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / Text about S.A.S. companies (France)

French term or phrase: A.G.O.A.

"B) DECISIONS COLLECTIVES DES ACTIONNAIRES

1) Unanimité obligatoire

Création ou modification des clauses d’inaliénabilité, d’agrément, d’exclusion et de changement de contrôle d’actionnaires.

Décisions qui augmenteraient les engagements des actionnaires.

2) Unanimité sauf clause contraire :

Nomination du liquidateur et ***AGOA*** pendant la période de liquidation."

General administrator who represents shareholders' interests?

Admin. gén. ... actionnaires ?

Conor McAuley KudoZ activity Questions: 986 (14 open) (1 without valid answers) (71 closed without grading) Answers: 1863 France
Local time: 07:47

Ordinary AGM

Explanation:
According to the site below, it stands for Assemblée Générale Ordinaire Annuelle.

Not 100% sure of the exact English equivalent, though.

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11,400 hits for "ordinary annual general meeting"

Selected response from:

David Goward
France
Local time: 07:47

Grading comment

Thanks to all for clearing that one up! Although it's debatable whether the second A stands for "actionnaires" or "annuelle".
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +6

Ordinary AGM

David Goward

5 +2

Ordinary Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Jenny Forbes

African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)

Damjana

Discussion entries: 1

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7 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

Ordinary AGM

David Goward
France
Local time: 07:47
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 66

Grading comment

Thanks to all for clearing that one up! Although it's debatable whether the second A stands for "actionnaires" or "annuelle".

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Catherine Johnstone: ordinary annual shareholders assembly

10 mins

-> Thanks! I prefer "meeting" to "assembly" but we'll leave it to Conor to decide.

agree

Tony M: That's what I'd have thought too, though at first sight it seems to fit oddly in the sentence given; but then again, maybe not — such an AGM would be a special case, justifiying the requirement for a vote to be unanimous

11 mins

-> Thanks, Tony! Not really my field, but that's how I understand it.

agree

Rob Grayson

14 mins

-> Thanks, Rob.

agree

Odette Grille: regular plenary meeting, may be...

17 mins

-> Thanks, Odette. I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with the subject to give an opinion on your suggestion.

agree

xuebai

26 mins

-> Thank you.

agree

VRN

29 mins

-> Thank you.

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Ordinary Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Explanation:
I think that, to be precise, you need to include the word "shareholders".

Jenny Forbes
Local time: 06:47
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 24

21 hrs confidence:

African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)

Explanation:
maybe it's engl.abrev

Damjana
Serbia
Local time: 07:47
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Serbian

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