French term
Cameroon
Corporate Contract Specialist
Native in: English (Variants: US, UK)
Works in: French to English, English, German to English, and 2 more.
Collectivité des actionnaires.
Can anyone help out the right coinage. I don't want go literally.
Thanks in advance
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Shilpa Majumdar
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| 3 +4 | the shareholders as a collective body |
Adrian MM.
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| 4 +1 | body of shareholders |
Daryo
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| 3 -2 | group of shareholders |
SafeTex
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| DECISIONS COLLECTIVES DES ACTIONNAIRES |
Daryo
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Non-PRO (1): Yvonne Gallagher
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Proposed translations
India
Native English speaker,French translator
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, English to French
Shareholders
Austria
Retd.T&I, Barrister & Austro-Advokat
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 5 more.
the shareholders as a collective body
NB this question is classified as contractual, so suggests translation of 'les statuts' > unless a limited partnership or LLP governed by a Partnership Deed, then included in (BrE) Memorandum & Articles of Association - *ranking, albeit controversially from past cases, in English company law as a contract made between the shareholders* or, if wider, the members and a.k.a. (AmE) Articles of Incorporation with a similar contractual force.
I doubt either way that the 'majority' , as in the web ref., is a sound construction (interpretation), but the context might tell.
http://eng.proz.com/kudoz/french-to-english/law-general/1284933-collectivité-des-associés.html
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Daryo
: exactly, shareholders can only decide as a collective body - nothing else would make sense. // "body of shareholders"?// Yes, could be, but I think it would still mean the same - a reference to "the shareholders as a collective body" - what else?
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Hvala lepo, merci and thanks! I may have been misleading, speculating - as I have from the contractual context - that these are 'Statutes'. In my experience, this is the likeliest scenario, though it could be a letter from a lawyer, bank, ins. co etc..
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B D Finch
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Merci and thanks.
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AllegroTrans
: yes, but EN would noprmally just use "the shareholders" as body/entirety is implied
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Thanks. Daryo's 'entire body of shareohlders', though, is preferable to the majority ProZ answer.
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STEPHANE ATANGANA (X)
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Merci and thanks.
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group of shareholders
But it is disputable so I'm giving myself a certainty of 3 as Adrian
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Daryo
: there is more than enough context to be sure - plethora of samples on the Web, Company Statutes being public documents; and even without that, the basics of how shareholders operate / take decisions.
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AllegroTrans
: No it's not a group it's ALL of them
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body of shareholders
The powers of individual directors should be set out in their service contract. This should be precise about the job description and the limits to which decisions need to be referred to the board of directors, or to the body of shareholders.
https://www.netlawman.co.uk/ia/preventing-conflict-sharehold...
Attendance and Voting
Any regularly constituted ordinary or extraordinary meeting of shareholders represents the entire body of shareholders of the Company
https://www.ses.com/investors/shareholder-information/genera...
plenty more: https://www.google.com/search?q="body of shareholders"
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AllegroTrans
: yes, but EN would noprmally just use "the shareholders" as body/entirety is implied
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yes, it's always implied when "shareholders" have decided this or that, but if the ST was explicit about the "body of shareholders" I wouldn't change it. Thanks!
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Reference comments
DECISIONS COLLECTIVES DES ACTIONNAIRES
Article 24 - Domaine réservé à la collectivité des actionnaires
La collectivité des actionnaires est seule compétente pour prendre les décisions suivantes :
- transformation de la Société ;
- augmentation, amortissement et réduction du capital social ;
- fusion, scission, dissolution, apport partiel d'actifs ;
- nomination des Commissaires aux comptes ;
- nomination, rémunération, révocation du Président (ou : des membres du Comité de direction) ;
- approbation des comptes annuels et affectation des résultats ;
- approbation des conventions conclues entre la Société et ses dirigeants ou actionnaires ;
- modification des statuts, sauf transfert du siège social ;
- nomination du liquidateur et décisions relatives aux opérations de liquidation ;
- agrément des cessions d'actions ;
- exclusion d'un actionnaire et suspension de ses droits de vote.
En cas de limitation des pouvoirs des dirigeants
- autorisation des décisions du Président (ou : du Comité de direction) visées à l'article 19 (ou : 19 bis) des présents statuts.
https://business.lesechos.fr/outils-et-services/modeles-de-d...
+ about 36,300 other samples:
https://www.google.com/search?q="Collectivité des actionnair...
Discussion
In my experience "avoiding literal translations" a pretty good sources of nonsense translations, only matched by the moronic rule of "avoiding repetitions at any cost".
Just a point of method.