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
Resignation: Antidote for Internal Dissention and Deadlock?
Under what circumstances, if at all, does resignation of one member of a two-member board of directors eliminate “deadlock” and “internal dissention” as an available grounds for corporate judicial dissolution? In this week’s New York Business Divorce, we consider a recent ruling by Justice Andrea Masley on that important question.
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Can a Deadlock Resolution Provision Cause Deadlock? This One Did
Last week’s decision by Chancellor Bouchard in Acela v. DiFalco involves a flawed deadlock resolution provision in an LLC agreement that not only failed to resolve deadlock, it was exploited by one side to create deadlock. Learn more in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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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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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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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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Court Grants 50% LLC Member Derivative Right to Defend Action Brought by Other 50% Member’s Solely Owned Company
In a first impression ruling, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld an LLC member’s derivative right to defend litigation brought against the LLC by one of its other members. Read about it in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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One 50% Shareholder Wants to Sell or Liquidate the Business. The Other Wants to Keep It Going. Is That Deadlock?
50/50 shareholders disagree whether to liquidate the business or continue it. Is that enough for a deadlock dissolution petition? Find out in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Winter Case Notes: LLC Deadlock and Other Recent Decisions of Interest
This week’s New York Business Divorce offers its annual Winter Case Notes with synopses of five recent decisions in business divorce cases involving LLC dissolution, cash-out merger, LLC member expulsion, and more.
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