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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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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Can a 49% shareholder who has co-equal control rights per the shareholders agreement bring an action for deadlock dissolution? Get the answer in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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This week’s New York Business Divorce analyzes the use of binding mediation to resolve deadlock between 50/50 business owners, a device whose use was affirmed on appeal in a decision last week by the Appellate Division, First Department.
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Is is a partnership? Or is it a corporation? Can an entity be both at once? Find out in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Did the parties get it wrong, or the judge, or both in Verkhoglyad v Benimovich, in which the court let proceed a claim to dissolve a foreign business entity and refused to enforce forum selection and pre-suit mediation clauses in the operating agreement of a New Jersey LLC. Learn more in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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This week’s New York Business Divorce previews and links to the latest podcast episode of the Business Divorce Roundtable featuring an interview with retired Commercial Division Justice Carolyn Demarest in which we discuss the litigation and mediation of business divorce cases.
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It’s time for another trip across the country with this week’s New York Business Divorce, as it examines five decisions last year by courts outside New York in business divorce cases.
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Mediation of business valuation disputes is the focus of this week’s New York Business Divorce featuring my interview of mediator Arthur Rosenbloom recently aired on the Business Divorce Roundtable podcast.
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This week’s New York Business Divorce closes out the year with an interesting decision by Justice Timothy Driscoll dismissing a dissolution petition that followed the sale of an LLC’s sole real estate asset based on the broad purpose clause in the parties’ LLC agreement..
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