Shareholders’ Long Form Loan Agreement – Loan to Company

This Shareholders’ Loan Agreement – Loan to Company is a loan agreement designed for a shareholder making a loan to the company that he or she is a shareholder of.  

Funds permitting, companies may prefer to borrow from their own shareholders, particularly if they cannot access funding from elsewhere or because the loan may be cheaper and more convenient than external third party funding.

Shareholders may make loans to companies on the same basis as any commercial organisation. However there may be issues regarding the taking of security and conflicts of interest that should be considered before entering into the loan. As these are similar to the issues that relate to a director making a loan to a company, our Guidance Note – Loans Involving Directors may be helpful in identifying and considering these issues.

Whilst this template is very similar in substance to our Directors’ Loan Agreement - Loan to Company, it has important differences, most particularly more conditions precedent to the making of the loan. This is to add greater protection for a shareholder who may not have the same level of knowledge or access to information that a director making a loan to a company may have.

This Shareholders’ Loan Agreement contains the following clauses:

1. Background
2. Definitions and Interpretation
3. The Facility
4. Purpose
5. Drawdown
6. Conditions Precedent
7. Interest
8. Repayments
9. Payments
10. Value Added Tax
11. Security
12. Representations and Warranties
13. Covenants
14. Events of Default
15. Assignment and Transfer
16. Set-off
17. Remedies, Waivers, Amendments and Consents
18. Severance
19. Third Party Rights
20. Communications
21. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Schedule 1: Repayment Schedule

Schedule 2: Drawdown Notice

Schedule 3: Security Documents

Shareholders lending to companies may choose to lend on less restrictive terms than some of these clauses. The clauses in square brackets can/should be deleted if not required.

NOTE: This Agreement is not intended to be regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974.

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