This week’s New York Business Divorce highlights and links to a Business Divorce Roundtable podcast interview with arbitrator/mediator Erica Garay on the novel topic of arbitrating deadlock between 50/50 owners of closely held business entities.
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A Cross-Country Tour of Five Recent Stock Appraisal Cases
Put on your traveling shoes and join this week’s New York Business Divorce for a five-state tour of five noteworthy stock valuation cases.
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Judicial Dissolution as the Nuclear Option When Other Means Falter
This week’s New York Business Divorce discusses basic litigation options in business divorce matters and highlights a recent court decision illustrating the use of a judicial dissolution proceeding as the “nuclear option” to break the litigation logjam.
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Winter Case Notes: Oppression of the “Gifted” Minority Shareholder and Other Recent Decisions of Interest
This week’s New York Business Divorce offers its annual Winter Case Notes with synopses of half a dozen recent decisions in business divorce cases involving minority shareholder oppression, books and records proceedings, and more.
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The Bad-Faith Petitioner Defense Makes Successful Debut in LLC Dissolution Case
This week’s New York Business Divorce highlights an important decision denying a dissolution petition brought by the 50% member of a realty-holding LLC on the ground that his own deliberate conduct in breach of the operating agreement created the conditions alleged as a basis for dissolution.
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Minority Shareholder Oppression in the #MeToo Era
You won’t want to miss this week’s New York Business Divorce featuring a recent decision in which the court found minority shareholder oppression based on “disrespectful and unfairly disproportionate treatment of a female shareholder by the male majority in a closely held corporation.”
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Another Reason Not to Use Fixed Price Buy-Sell Agreements
If someone proposes to you a fixed price buy-sell agreement, run the other way, but not without first reading this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Business Divorce Epilogues
The New York Business Divorce blog has covered hundreds of cases over the past 11 years. This week’s post revisits three of them, two of which were recently resolved, one of which is still going strong, and all of which made the list of Top Ten business divorce cases in years past.
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Top Ten Business Divorce Cases of 2018
New York Business Divorce proudly presents its 11th annual list of the past year’s ten most noteworthy business divorce cases, along with short summaries and links to prior posts on the featured cases.
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Equitable Accounting vs. Access to Books and Records: Don’t Confuse Them
In litigation between co-owners of private business entities, a claim against the controllers for an equitable accounting is different from a claim seeking access to books and records — or is it? Get the answer in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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