# Controlling interest

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## Definition

A person or group of persons owns so many shares in a stock corporation that they can determine management decisions; as a rule, this includes ownership of more than half of the voting capital of a company (if one shareholder or a group acting in kind holds a high enough percentage of ownership in a company to enact changes at the highest level. By legal definition in Germany, this figure regulary is fifty percent of the outstanding shares or voting shares, plus one). - See shareholder, active, combination effect, package surcharge. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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