April 2011

When the company or majority shareholder elects to purchase a dissolution petitioner’s shares for fair value, how can the selling shareholder be sure the purchaser will be able to pay the eventual award? The statute offers relief in the form of a bonding requirement, as illustrated in a recent case decided by Nassau County Commercial Division Justice Stephen A. Bucaria. Get the story in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Continue Reading Bonding a Fair Value Award: When Can the Court Require It?

This week’s New York Business Divorce tells a cautionary tale of a business partnership between a lawyer and his client turned sour, as revealed in a recent decision by Nassau County Acting Supreme Court Justice Thomas Adams in Matter of Gleich (Iceland, Inc.) where the court dismissed a dissolution petition for lack of standing.
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Continue Reading Judicial Estoppel + Dead-Man’s Statute = No Standing to Seek Judicial Dissolution of Close Corporation

Getting sued by your client’s adversary is an occasional occupational hazard for attorneys in any field, but perhaps more so for attorneys who represent closely held companies that fall into the business divorce maelstrom, as evidenced by Nassau County Justice Denise Sher’s recent decision in Aranki v. Goldman & Associates. It’s in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Continue Reading Lawyers Caught in the Crossfire of Shareholder Disputes

This week’s New York Business Divorce features an interesting decision by Commercial Division Justice Emily Pines in Nastasi v. Carlino, where she sent both sides home empty handed in a bitter shareholder dispute with misconduct on both sides.
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Continue Reading Court Sends Everyone Home Empty Handed in Bitter Business Breakup