Even a comedy club is not exempt from the grip of a acrimonious business divorce, as you’ll learn in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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No Laughing Matter: Deadlock Dissolution Petition Targets Legendary NYC Comedy Club
The Curious Case of the Expelled LLC Member Bound by Operating Agreement He Never Signed
Shapiro v Ettenson, known as the case that made it extra dangerous for minority members of New York LLCs without written operating agreements, reappears in this week’s New York Business Divorce on the occasion of a recent decision concerning member expulsion.
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Arbitrating Deadlock: A Conversation with Arbitrator Erica Garay
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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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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49% Shareholder Can’t Seek Deadlock Dissolution Despite Shareholders’ Agreement Granting Co-Equal Control
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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Anyone Think Binding Mediation to Break Deadlock Is a Good Idea?
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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Corporate Frankenstein “Partnership to Form a Corporation” Lives Another Day
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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Read This Case. Slap Your Head. Not Too Hard.
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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Interview With Justice Carolyn Demarest (Ret.) on Litigating and Mediating Business Divorce Cases
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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Business Divorce Nation: Five States, Five Cases
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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