This week’s New York Business Divorce features a failed attempt at removing restaurant manager on a preliminary injunction motion.
Commentary on Dissolution and Other Disputes Among Co-Owners of Closely Held Business Entities
Becky is a commercial litigator representing clients in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration/mediation forums in New York. Her practice focuses on complex commercial disputes in areas including member and shareholder disputes, contract disputes, business and real property valuation, and general business torts. She represents clients in a wide variety of industries, including commercial and residential real estate (brokers, owners), the arts (writers, artists, photographers, agents), hospitality (owners/investors of hotels, restaurants, airport lounges), medical practices, and financial services, among others.
This week’s New York Business Divorce presents the 2025 Winter Case Notes, where we highlight a few recent decisions of interest featuring strict adherence to statutory language and the parties’ governing agreements.
Continue Reading Winter Case Notes: Nice Try, But the Agreements Say What They Say
This week’s New York Business Divorce post examines a recent appellate court decision in which the Third Department searches the record to find deadlocked 50/50 members unable to carry on a realty LLC’s business, warranting dissolution.
Continue Reading Help Comes From an Unexpected Place in LLC Deadlock Dissolution: The Third Department
This week’s New York Business Divorce post concerns the impact that estoppel can play in determining the all-important question of, “Am I a member of the LLC?”…
Continue Reading To be or Not to Be (a Member). That is the Question… That Estoppel Can Help Answer.
This week’s post concerns a decision out of the Delaware Chancery Court, in which the Court was tasked with determining whether the absolute litigation privilege bars the exercise of a contractual repurchase option triggered by claimed disparaging statements made in prior litigation.
Continue Reading Freedom (But with Consequences): In Delaware, Absolute Litigation Privilege Inapplicable to Nullify Contractual Non-Disparagement Repurchase Trigger
This week’s New York Business Divorce post features a Delaware Chancery Court post-trial decision of first impression discussing the extent of an Estate’s exercise of member rights for a “proper purpose” in a case involving the Goldman real estate empire.
Continue Reading When It Talks Like a Member, Walks Like a Member, Acts Like a Member… But Isn’t a Member: First Impression Chancery Decision Rules on Estate’s Exercise of Member Rights “For Proper Purpose”
This week’s New York Business Divorce showcases how courts reign in aggrieved limited partners whose demands stray from the plain terms of the limited partnership agreement…
Continue Reading You Get What You Get, and You Don’t Get Upset: First Department Boots Limited Partner’s Claims Based on Plain Terms of Limited Partnership Agreement