Can a 49% shareholder who has co-equal control rights per the shareholders agreement bring an action for deadlock dissolution? Get the answer in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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July 2018
Dissension Follows When Business Owners Don’t Put Their IP House in Order
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Posted in Interim Remedies
Intellectual property rights can be the lifeblood of a business. This week’s New York Business Divorce highlights a pair of recent cases involving disputes among the co-owners of closely held firms over the ownership of IP critical to the firms’ prosperity or even existence.
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Dead Men Tell No Tales of Shareholder Buy-Outs Gone Sour
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Posted in Buyout
An eight-year litigation saga in a dispute over a below-market sale of shares in a realty holding company came to end last month when the Appellate Division, First Department, affirmed an order dismissing the complaint in Gourary v Laster. Read more in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Basics of Valuation Proceedings – Litigating an Appraisal from Start to Finish – Part 1
In this week’s New York Business Divorce – the first in a three-part series about the statutory triggers, legal rules, and accounting principles of business valuation proceedings – learn about the routes business owners can take to an appraisal proceeding.
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Lessons From a Trio of Dysfunctional Buy-Sell Agreements
By Peter A. Mahler on
This week’s New York Business Divorce serves up a trio of dysfunctional buy-sell agreements for valuation junkies, featuring recent decisions in cases from New York, Pennsylvania, and Alabama, …
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