How do shareholders sue the company?

Legal analysis: 1. If the plaintiff requests to confirm that the resolution of the shareholders' meeting or the shareholders' meeting or the board of directors is invalid or revoked, the company shall be listed as the defendant. 2. Where a shareholder files a lawsuit in accordance with relevant regulations and requests to consult or copy specific documents and materials of the company, the people's court shall accept it according to law. Three, shareholders request the company to distribute profits, the company should be listed as the defendant.

Legal basis: Article 8 of Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on the Application of Certain Issues (IV).

If a limited liability company has evidence to prove that a shareholder has any of the following circumstances, the people's court shall determine that the shareholder has an "improper purpose" as stipulated in the second paragraph of Article 33 of the Company Law:

(1) Unless otherwise stipulated in the Articles of Association or agreed by all shareholders, the shareholders engage in businesses that are substantially competitive with the company's main business on their own or for others.

(two) shareholders to inform others of the relevant information, access to the company's accounting books, which may damage the legitimate interests of the company;

(3) Shareholders have informed others of relevant information by consulting the company's accounting books within three years before the date of filing a request for consulting with the company, which has harmed the legitimate interests of the company;

(4) Other circumstances in which shareholders have improper purposes.