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Robinson G.

Lucena
3rd year Law Week 9

NEUGENE MARKETING INC., COURT OF APPEALS, ARSENIO YANG, JR.,


G.R. No. 112941 February 18, 1999; PURISIMA, J.:

Facts:

NEUGENE was engaged in trading business. One of the incorporators named, Eugenio
Flores, Jr. assigned transferred and conveyed his entire shareholdings in NEUGENE to the
following, to wit. Pet. Sonny Moreno, Arsenio Yang, Jr., Charles O. Sy. Private respondents,
owned at least two-thirds (2/3) of NEUGENE's outstanding capital stock, in sufficient compliance
with the germane provision of Section 118 of the Corporation Code of the Philippines. Then
SEC issued a Certificate of Dissolution of NEUGENE. Petitioners stated that the majority
stockholders of NEUGENE, owning eighty percent (80%) of its outstanding capital stock, at the
time of the adoption and approval of the Resolution for the Dissolution of NEUGENE. SEC
nullified the Certification on the Dissolution of NEUGENE holding that the private respondents
were no longer holders of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the outstanding capital stock of NEUGENE
at the time they presented the petition for dissolution, as required under Section 118 of the
Corporation Code. (Annex "O").

Issue:

Whether or not the private respondents lacked the requisite number of shares of stock or
had divested themselves of their stockholdings when they voted for the resolution dissolving
NEUGENE.

Ruling:

No, under the Sec. 118. Voluntary dissolution where no creditors are affected. - If
dissolution of a corporation does not prejudice the rights of any creditor having a claim against
it, the dissolution may be effected by majority vote of the board of directors or trustees, and by a
resolution duly adopted by the affirmative vote of the stockholders owning at least two-thirds
(2/3) of the outstanding capital stock or of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the members of a meeting
to be held upon call of the directors or trustees after publication of the notice of time, place and
object of the meeting for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the place
where the principal office of said corporation is located;

In this case, the entries on the right-hand portion of NEUGENE'S Stock and Transfer
Book, under the column "Certificates Issued", indubitably record the private respondents as the
holders of 5,250 shares, constituting at least two-thirds (2/3) of NEUGENE's outstanding capital
stock of 7,000 shares.

Therefore, the private respondents herein are the legitimate holders and owners of at
least-two-thirds (2/3) of the outstanding capital stock of NEUGENE, with the corresponding right
to vote for its dissolution, in accordance with Section 118 of the Corporation Code of the
Philippines.

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