Business corporations

Wis. Stat. ch. 180
in effect

Contents

section180.0101. Titlesection180.0103. Definitionssection180.0105. Governing lawsection180.0112. Delivery of a recordsection180.0120. Filing requirementssection180.0121. Formssection180.0122. Filing and service feessection180.0123. Effective date and timesection180.0124. Correcting filed documentsection180.0125. Filing duty of department of financial institutionssection180.0126. Appeal from department of financial institutions’ refusal to file documentsection180.0127. Evidentiary effect of copy of filed documentsection180.0128. Confirmation of statussection180.0129. Penalty for false documentsection180.0141. Knowledge; noticesection180.0142. Number of shareholderssection180.0143. Withdrawal of filed documents before effectivenesssection180.0144. Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce actsection180.0145. Forum selection provisionssection180.0201. Incorporatorssection180.0202. Articles of incorporationsection180.0203. Incorporationsection180.0205. Organization of corporationsection180.0206. Bylawssection180.0207. Emergency bylawssection180.0301. Purposessection180.0302. General powerssection180.0303. Emergency powerssection180.0304. Lack of corporate powersection180.0401. Corporate namesection180.0402. Reservation of namesection180.0403. Registration of namesection180.0501. Registered office and registered agentsection180.0502. Change of registered office or registered agentsection180.0503. Resignation of registered agentsection180.0504. Service on corporationsection180.0601. Authorized sharessection180.0602. Terms of class or series determined by board of directorssection180.0603. Issued and outstanding sharessection180.0604. Fractional sharessection180.0620. Subscription for sharessection180.0621. Issuance of sharessection180.0622. Liability of shareholders, transferees and otherssection180.0623. Share dividendssection180.0624. Share rights, options and warrantssection180.0625. Form and content of certificatessection180.0626. Shares without certificatessection180.0627. Restriction on transfer of shares and other securitiessection180.0628. Expense of issuing sharessection180.0630. Preemptive rightssection180.0631. Corporation’s acquisition of its own sharessection180.0640. Distributions to shareholderssection180.0701. Annual meetingsection180.0702. Special meetingsection180.0703. Court-ordered meetingsection180.0704. Action without meetingsection180.0705. Notice of meetingsection180.0706. Waiver of and exemption from noticesection180.0707. Record datesection180.0708. Conduct of meetingsection180.0709. Remote participation in shareholders’ meetingsection180.0720. Shareholders’ list for meetingsection180.0721. Voting entitlement of sharessection180.0722. Proxiessection180.0723. Shares held by nomineessection180.0724. Acceptance of instruments showing shareholder actionsection180.0725. Quorum and voting requirements for voting groupssection180.0726. Action by single and multiple voting groupssection180.0727. Greater or lower quorum or greater voting requirementssection180.0728. Voting for directors; cumulative votingsection180.0730. Voting trustssection180.0731. Voting agreementssection180.0740. Definitions applicable to ss. 180.0740 to 180.0747section180.0741. Standingsection180.0742. Demandsection180.0743. Stay of proceedingssection180.0744. Dismissalsection180.0745. Discontinuance or settlementsection180.0746. Payment of expensessection180.0747. Applicability to foreign corporationssection180.0801. Requirement for and duties of board of directorssection180.0802. Qualifications of directorssection180.0803. Number and election of directorssection180.0804. Election of directors by certain classes of shareholderssection180.0805. Terms of directors generallysection180.0806. Staggered terms of directorssection180.0807. Resignation of directorssection180.0808. Removal of directors by shareholderssection180.0809. Removal of directors by judicial proceedingsection180.0810. Vacancy on boardsection180.0811. Compensation of directorssection180.0820. Meetingssection180.0821. Action without meetingsection180.0822. Notice of meetingsection180.0823. Waiver of noticesection180.0824. Quorum and votingsection180.0825. Committeessection180.0826. Reliance by directors or officerssection180.0827. Consideration of interests in addition to shareholders’ interestssection180.0828. Limited liability of directorssection180.0831. Director conflict of interestsection180.0832. Loans to directorssection180.0833. Liability for unlawful distributionssection180.0840. Officerssection180.0841. Duties of officerssection180.0843. Resignation and removal of officerssection180.0844. Contract rights of officerssection180.0850. Definitions applicable to indemnification and insurance provisionssection180.0851. Mandatory indemnificationsection180.0852. Corporation may limit indemnificationsection180.0853. Allowance of expenses as incurredsection180.0854. Court-ordered indemnificationsection180.0855. Determination of right to indemnificationsection180.0856. Indemnification and allowance of expenses of employees and agentssection180.0857. Insurancesection180.0858. Additional rights to indemnification and allowance of expensessection180.0859. Indemnification and insurance against securities law claimssection180.0860. Statements of changes in directors or principalsection180.1001. Authority to amend articles of incorporationsection180.1002. Amendment of articles of incorporation by board of directorssection180.1003. Amendment of articles of incorporation by board of directors and shareholderssection180.1004. Voting on amendments by voting groupssection180.1005. Amendment before issuance of sharessection180.1006. Articles of amendmentsection180.1007. Restated articles of incorporationsection180.1008. Amendment pursuant to reorganizationsection180.1009. Effect of amendmentsection180.1020. Amendment of bylaws by board of directors or shareholderssection180.1021. Bylaw fixing quorum or voting requirements for shareholderssection180.1022. Bylaw fixing quorum or voting requirements for directorssection180.1100. Definitionssection180.1101. Merger authorizedsection180.1102. Interest exchange authorizedsection180.1104. Merger of subsidiary or parentsection180.1105. Articles of merger or interest exchangesection180.1106. Effect of merger or interest exchangesection180.1130. Definitions applicable to ss. 180.1130 to 180.1134section180.1131. Shareholder votesection180.1132. Exceptionssection180.1133. Other requirements for greater votessection180.1134. Actions during take-over offersection180.1140. Definitions applicable to business combination provisionssection180.1141. Restrictions on business combinationssection180.1142. Determining market value and controlsection180.1143. Exclusions from business combination restrictionssection180.1144. Relationship to other lawssection180.1150. Control share voting restrictionssection180.1161. Conversionsection180.1171. Domestication authorizedsection180.1172. Plan of domesticationsection180.1173. Approval of domestication; amendment; abandonmentsection180.1174. Filings required for domestication; effective datesection180.1175. Effect of domesticationsection180.1201. Sale of assets in regular course of business; mortgage of assets; transfer of assets to subsidiarysection180.1202. Sale of assets other than in regular course of businesssection180.1301. Definitionssection180.1302. Right to dissentsection180.1303. Dissent by shareholders and beneficial shareholderssection180.1320. Notice of dissenters’ rightssection180.1321. Notice of intent to demand paymentsection180.1322. Dissenters’ noticesection180.1323. Duty to demand paymentsection180.1324. Restrictions on uncertificated sharessection180.1325. Paymentsection180.1326. Failure to take actionsection180.1327. After-acquired sharessection180.1328. Procedure if dissenter dissatisfied with payment or offersection180.1330. Court actionsection180.1331. Court costs and counsel feessection180.1401. Dissolution before issuance of sharessection180.1402. Dissolution by board of directors and shareholderssection180.1403. Articles of dissolution for dissolution under s. 180.1402section180.1404. Revocation of dissolutionsection180.1405. Effect of dissolutionsection180.1406. Known claims against dissolved corporationsection180.1407. Claims against dissolved corporation generallysection180.1408. Enforcing claimssection180.1420. Grounds for administrative dissolutionsection180.1421. Procedure for and effect of administrative dissolutionsection180.1422. Reinstatement following administrative dissolutionsection180.1423. Appeal from denial of reinstatementsection180.1430. Grounds for judicial dissolutionsection180.1431. Procedure for judicial dissolutionsection180.1432. Receivershipsection180.1433. Decree of dissolutionsection180.1440. Delivery to secretary of revenuesection180.1501. Authority to transact business requiredsection180.1502. Consequences of transacting business without authoritysection180.1503. Application for certificate of authoritysection180.1504. Amended certificate of authoritysection180.1505. Effect of certificate of authoritysection180.1506. Corporate name of foreign corporationsection180.1507. Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporationsection180.1508. Change of registered office or registered agent of foreign corporationsection180.1509. Resignation of registered agent of foreign corporationsection180.1510. Service on foreign corporationsection180.1520. Withdrawal of foreign corporationsection180.1530. Grounds for revocationsection180.1531. Procedure for and effect of revocationsection180.1532. Appeal from revocationsection180.1601. Corporate recordssection180.1602. Inspection of records by shareholderssection180.1603. Scope of inspection rightsection180.1604. Court-ordered inspectionsection180.1620. Financial statements for shareholderssection180.1622. Annual report for department of financial institutionssection180.1701. Definitionsection180.1703. Application to domestic corporationssection180.1704. Application to foreign corporationssection180.1705. Existing preemptive rights preservedsection180.1706. Certain voting requirements preservedsection180.1707. Certain class voting rights preservedsection180.1708. Applicability of various provisionssection180.1801. Applicabilitysection180.1803. Electionsection180.1805. Share transfer restrictionssection180.1807. Transfer after corporation’s first refusalsection180.1809. Notice of statutory close corporation statussection180.1811. Transfer of shares in breach of transfer restrictionssection180.1813. Merger, interest exchange, and sale of assetssection180.1815. Termination of statutory close corporation statussection180.1817. Effect of termination of statutory close corporation statussection180.1819. Payment for sharessection180.1821. Election not to have a board of directorssection180.1823. Agreements among shareholderssection180.1824. Irrevocable proxiessection180.1825. Bylawssection180.1827. Annual meetingsection180.1829. Shareholder sale option at deathsection180.1831. Shareholder option to dissolve corporationsection180.1833. Power of court to grant reliefsection180.1834. Greater quorum or voting requirementssection180.1835. Limited liabilitysection180.1837. Officers; execution of documentssection180.1901. Definitionssection180.1903. Formation of service corporationsection180.1905. Business corporation law applicablesection180.1907. Corporate namesection180.1909. Filing articles of incorporationsection180.1911. Participants; conflict of interestsection180.1913. Alternative incorporation by one or 2 personssection180.1915. Professional relationships and liabilitysection180.1917. Corporate agentssection180.1919. Continuity; dissolution; stock transfer or redemptionsection180.1921. Annual reportsection180.11001. Relationship of subchapter to other lawssection180.11002. Existing purposesection180.11003. Nonexclusivitysection180.11004. Reference to external factssection180.11012. Plan of mergersection180.11021. Plan of interest exchangesection180.11031. Approval of merger or interest exchange; amendment; abandonmentsection180.11032. Approval requirements and procedures applicable to domestic corporations in mergers and interest exchangessection180.11045. Merger of indirect wholly owned subsidiary or parent
Source: WI Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/180Fetched: 10/7/2026