In this week’s New York Business Divorce, a would-be dissolution petitioner just could not catch a break in a series of procedural losses emanating out of Bronx County Supreme Court.
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In this week’s New York Business Divorce, we consider the important but rarely litigated question of whether an arbitrator has the power to extra-judicially dissolve a New York business entity.
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In this week’s New York Business Divorce, a tip of the hat to retiring Justices Eileen Bransten and Charles E. Ramos with a look back at some of their more memorable business divorce rulings.
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This week’s New York Business Divorce takes a close look at the issues surrounding the statutory right of the corporation and other shareholders to stay dissolution proceedings by electing to purchase the petitioner’s shares at fair value.
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In a follow-up to last week’s New York Business Divorce, this week’s post addresses a second decision by Justice Saliann Scarpulla in the Yu family constellation of ilitigations, this time considering the fatal effects on standing to sue for statutory dissolution by assigning one’s stock voting rights.
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In this week’s New York Business Divorce, we salute recently-retired Commercial Division Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich with a collection of some of her most noteworthy decisions in the area of business ownership disputes.
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Is there a meaningful difference between the deadlock standard for judicial dissolution under the Partnership Law and the Business Corporation Law? Perhaps. Read on in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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The much-neglected surcharge provision in corporate dissolution litigation is looking even less attractive after a trial court’s decision earlier this month, limiting its application to buy-out proceedings. Learn more in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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After more than two years in receivership, an appeals court gives a dissolved LLC a new lease on life because the petitioners “offered no competent evidentiary proof” why the entity should have been dissolved. We take a closer look in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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The Supreme Court of Massachusetts recently formulated a useful, four-factor test for “true deadlock” in corporate dissolution cases. Learn more in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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