Investor Governance Services
Protection that holds.
Most investor protection is written once and never tested. We design, implement and administer the governance rights that continue to hold long after the transaction is closed.
The problem
Protection on paper is not protection.
A shareholders’ agreement a majority can undo. Structuring work delivered at entry by advisers who then withdraw. Reporting that arrives when it suits the company rather than when it matters to you.
These arrangements have one thing in common: they sell confidence at the moment of the transaction, and disappear for the duration of the holding.
A minority investor in a private company holds limited information, limited control, and depends on the decisions of directors and majority shareholders. That position does not change on the day the money moves. It changes only if the rights attached to the shareholding are built to survive the years that follow — and if someone continues to administer them.
What we do
Four disciplines, one continuous mandate.
Governance design
We analyse what your position actually requires, then design the specific rights that answer it — including, where appropriate, an Irish Golden Share.
Implementation
Share class creation, constitutional amendments, CRO filings, statutory registers. Drafted in coordination with your legal counsel, never in place of them.
Administration
Company secretarial work, document custody, ongoing compliance of the structures we administer. The part nobody wants to hold for ten years.
Reporting
Periodic, structured, neutral. A record of what is, not an opinion on what it means.
The instrument
The Irish Golden Share.
A Golden Share is a distinct class of shares carrying specific rights — typically a veto over reserved matters such as constitutional amendment, share issuance, change of control or the disposal of material assets.
Section 81 of the Companies Act 2014 provides for share classes carrying differentiated rights, and Section 87 requires the consent of an affected class before the rights attached to it are varied. A protection written into the constitution is therefore not one the majority can remove on its own.
The frame
What we do not do is part of the method.
We are not a fund, an asset manager or a financial intermediary. We never hold or manage client money, and we never advise on whether to invest. We act only after your decision is made — which is precisely what allows us to act for you afterwards without conflict.
Brunet Partners is a trading name of Neo Circle Limited, authorised as a Trust or Company Service Provider under Irish law.