This week’s post considers a duo of recent decisions concerning disputes between LLC members over the terms of their operating agreement. In the first case, the court considered whether to enforce an operating agreement as written despite evidence that the parties actually intended a different deal. In the second, the court considered whether to enforce an operating agreement where its buyout terms were grossly unfair. The cases’ different outcomes highlight the outer limits of the parties’ freedom of contract in LLC operating agreements.
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February 2022
General Partner’s Resignation Triggers Nonjudicial Dissolution of Limited Partnership
The North Carolina Court of Appeals last week handed down a significant opinion affirming the nonjudicial dissolution of a family-owned Delaware limited partnership based on the appointment of a new general partner in contravention of the terms of the limited partnership agreement. Learn more in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Valuation Decision Finds LLC “Worthless, Worthless, Worthless”
In this week’s New York Business Divorce, read about an unusual business valuation decision in a breach of contract case rendered by a court solely on papers pitting an expert against layperson, with the layperson successfully persuading the Court the entity had no value.
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Winter Case Notes: Tax Estoppel (Not) to the Rescue and Other Decisions of Interest
This week’s New York Business Divorce offers its annual Winter Case Notes with synopses of four recent, noteworthy decisions by New York courts.
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