[SiliconBeach] Founder Share Vesting - Buybacks

2013-10-13 Thread J Antifaev
Hi All, New addition to the group here - love the discussions and am hoping my question is relevant to some others as well. I've got an ACT-based startup with a few founders and we are ready to incorporate in order to receive some external grant funding. We are getting stuck on the issue of

[SiliconBeach] Re: Founder Share Vesting - Buybacks

2013-10-13 Thread drllau
what you are asking for is anti-dilution provisions. What I've eyeballed are situations where price paid for the shares may depend upon circumstances of departure. It may be at market value if the founder/manager is deemed to be a good leaver, or it might be considerably less in the case of

[SiliconBeach] Australian Govt - Issues Paper for Employee Share schemes

2013-10-13 Thread drllau
Last month the govt released discussion paper under the (ironically) *A Plan for Australian Jobs: The Australian Government's Industry and Innovation Statement* (seems ATO is NOT amused at tax innovation) which is the chance to look over implementation (or non-implementation) since the tax

RE: [SiliconBeach] Re: Founder Share Vesting - Buybacks

2013-10-13 Thread Dean Collins
Lawrence its amazing how much you can waffle on and say absolutely nothing. Seriously dude I don't know you personally, but I've never read a single post of yours that couldn't be said in 10% of the time. Your answer is I think there may be a relevant case at Donaldson v FCT but go speak with

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Founder Share Vesting - Buybacks

2013-10-13 Thread J Antifaev
Thanks Lawrence and Dean. We're avoiding options and trying to just have the founders buy the stock up front with a repurchase option if they're a bad leaver. What I am concluding is that there is no commonly accepted, publicly available template for setting up a standard vesting agreement

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Founder Share Vesting - Buybacks

2013-10-13 Thread Michael Ridland
What I am concluding is that there is no commonly accepted, publicly available template for setting up a standard vesting agreement between founders in Australia. This is a big surprise to me. Yes, I found this the case also. This question has come up a few times without a good answer from

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Founder Share Vesting - Buybacks

2013-10-13 Thread drllau
http://www.moorestephens.com.au/sites/default/files/success_by_design_final.pdf The tax implications are governed by accounting standard AASB 2 Share-based Payment which is outside my professional area of competence You’ve either done it and know the answer or you don’t. Cheers,