Liquidating BV shares: free legal advice

Questioner

Our BV was for 25% of the BV of a partner of ours. This partner stopped and dissolved his BV and deregistered. But that still included 25% of our shares (which are valued at zero, but still). The question now is: where 'are' those shares? Have they automatically lapsed to our BV? What do we need to do to make this clear to the right authorities? At the Chamber of Commerce, the no longer existing BV has now been deregistered as a shareholder with us. In short, how should we settle this now, because there is no longer a shareholder to settle this with?

Lawyer

The liquidation of your partner's BV did not take place correctly. There was still capital present, namely the shares in your BV (regardless of the value of these shares). These shares are still the property of the deregistered BV. In order to rectify this, the liquidation must be reopened and the shares must still be delivered (for example to you or to your BV), only then can the liquidation be formally completed.