How can a shareholder be forced out of a company?

Question

I remember hearing about Steve Jobs being forced out of Apple, and the McDonalds brothers being forced out of McDonald’s. In both instances, the method of forcing was a buyout, but I don’t understand how this can be considered “forcing” if they consented to sell their shares. I feel that I am misunderstanding what happened, and just want to know how a shareholder can be forced to sell their stake in a company.

In: Economics

Answer 1

You can’t force sell shares but you can dilute their shares face book is an example of this.