A recent Brooklyn Supreme Court case bring useful insight on three post-dissolution fundamentals: when (and how) a dissolution can be annulled, the court’s supervisory power under BCL 1008, and why, when shareholders are deadlocked as to dissolution procedure, a public sale—not a private deal—is the default endgame.

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A court order directing a party to file a verified formal accounting is not to be taken lightly, and certainly not to be contradicted by the accounting party, as the unfortunate defendant found out in a post-trial decision issued earlier this month by Commercial Division Justice Jennifer Schecter.

Continue Reading The Consequences of Deception: Defendant Hit With $4.5 Million Judgment After 12-Year “Wild Goose Chase Based on a Lie”