This week’s New York Business Divorce rings in the New Year with its fifth annual list of the past year’s ten most significant business divorce cases, also providing short summaries and links to prior posts on the featured cases. Happy New Year!
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December 2012
Appellate Court Directs 16% Marketability Discount in Fair Value Buy-Out of Realty Companies, Affirms Discount for Future Built-In Gains Tax at Present Value
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An important decision last week by the Appellate Division, First Department, in Giaimo v. Vitale directed the application of stock valuation discounts for lack of marketability and built-in gains taxes in a case involving closely held, subchapter C real estate holding corporations. It’s must reading for business appraisers and business divorce lawyers, in this week’s New York Business Divorce. …
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Appellate Court Resolves Disputes Over Valuation and Capital Accounts in Partnership Dissolution Case
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When a partnership is wrongfully dissolved and then continued by one of the partners, are the departing partners entitled to be paid fair market value or book value for their interests? That was just one of several interesting issues decided by an appellate panel last month in Quick v. Quick, which gets the not-so-quick treatment in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Court Dismisses Shareholder Derivative Action Due to Inconsistent Stock Ownership Claim in Prior Lawsuit
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In prior litigation with his ex-wife, Gary Rubio swore he sold his shares in the family business to his father. When he brought a subsequent shareholder derivative action against his brother, he swore he didn’t, and proffered a company tax return to prove it. What’s a judge to do? Find out in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Pappas Saga Ends, Court of Appeals Upholds Fiduciary Waiver in LLC Buy-Out Agreement
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Last week’s Court of Appeals decision in Pappas v. Tzolis completes a trilogy of recent decisions by that court dismissing fiduciary breach claims by disappointed sellers concerning buy-out agreements that contain releases or waivers of fiduciary duty. Learn more in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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