Incognito shareholders refer to those who, in order to evade the law or for other reasons, set up a company in the name of others or make capital contributions in the name of others, and are recorded as the actual contributors of others in the company’s articles of association, register of shareholders and industrial and commercial registration.
An anonymous shareholder, also called an actual investor, refers to a person who entrusts others to hold equity on his behalf according to a written or oral agreement . Correspondingly, the nominee shareholders (or nominal shareholders) refer to the shareholders who are recorded in the industrial and commercial registration materials but have no actual capital contribution.
Incognito investment refers to an investment method in which the investor actually subscribes for the capital contribution, but the company’s articles of association, register of shareholders, stocks (only registered stocks ), capital contribution certificate and industrial and commercial registration show that others are shareholders. In the method, those who actually make capital contributions and enjoy investment income are called “unknown investors”, “actual investors” or “unknown shareholders”, while investors who are announced by the invested company to the outside world can be called “unknown shareholders”. “.
The difference between the rights and obligations of anonymous shareholders and named shareholders is mainly reflected in the identification of shareholder qualifications and the convenience of exercising rights.