While the distinction between a partner and an economic interest holder is conceptually sound, a recent decision from the Second Department shows how an assignee of an economic interest can be left not only out of the boardroom, but also out in the cold financially.
This week’s NYBD visits a recent Delaware Chancery Court decision involving, the Court wrote, a “poorly drafted” LLC agreement with “lamentable” consequences for one side that the parties “must live with.”
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New York appellate case law invariably holds that a closely-held business owner lacks a direct property interest or right in the entity’s underlying real estate asset to support a Notice of Pendency. But in this week’s New York Business Divorce, we feature an uncommon motion court decision declining to vacate a Notice of Pendency placed by an LLC member upon the entity’s real estate asset to thwart the property’s sale to a third-party buyer. Is this recent decision an outlier, or the birth of an exception to the rule?