Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the company’s refusal to enter the buyer in the share register was an abuse of rights.
Extrahierter Entscheid
Yes. In the concrete circumstances, the refusal contradicted the company’s earlier conduct and the restructuring/sale concept on which the transaction was based, so it was not protected by law.
Extrahierte Begründung
The company had accepted the restructuring scheme, benefited from the transfer of the operating business, and later tried to block the share buyer’s participation. This frustrated justified expectations and undermined the planned sale of the business as a unit. The reliance on statutory transfer restrictions was also abusive because the protective purpose of those rules no longer justified shielding the existing minority shareholders in this context.