Minority shareholder oppression on steroids is one way to describe what happened in Matter of Twin Bay Village, Inc., in which an upstate appellate panel recently affirmed an order dissolving the corporation and setting aside a stock issuance that diluted the minority shareholders. Learn more in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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The barriers to a federal court forum in corporate dissolution cases is high indeed, as the litigants learned in the case examined in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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The respondents in a case recently decided by Justice Kim Dollard learned the hard way that opposing a corporate dissolution petition requires more than an attorney affirmation or attorney-verified answer. Learn more in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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The death of a shareholder amidst a deadlock dissolution proceeding turns the case upside down, as explained in a decision last month by Justice Vito M. DeStefano granting the petitioner’s request to discontinue the proceeding. Check it out in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Surviving a dismissal motion in LLC dissolution cases can be affected by the form of the suit, i.e., whether brought as a special proceeding or as a plenary action. Find out more, and see how a dismissal motion played out in a recent decision by Manhattan Justice Ellen Coin, in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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In this week’s New York Business Divorce, find out how Justice Vito DeStefano ruled when asked to dismiss a damages suit by a minority shareholder against the majority shareholder, brought years after the minority shareholder abandoned a prior dissolution proceeding in which the majority shareholder elected to purchase.
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This week’s New York Business Divorce offers short summaries of three recent decisions of interest by Commercial Division Justices Melvin Schweitzer, Carolyn Demarest, and Marcy Friedman in which the courts addressed interesting issues concerning shareholder standing to seek removal of a director and dissolution of a wholly-owned subsidiary; venue in dissolution proceedings; and application of CPLR 205’s savings provision to the statute of limitations in a dissolution case.
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This week’s New York Business Divorce highlights a recent, important ruling by an appellate court concerning the requirements for service of the petition in corporate dissolution proceedings.
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Rules of procedure can be a minefield for any litigation, including judicial dissolution proceedings. This week’s New York Business Divorce features a compilation of 10 of the most common procedural mistakes in business divorce cases.
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Disputes over procedural issues are no less common in dissolution proceedings — and with consequences no less important — than in other types of civil litigation. This week’s New York Business Divorce samples a number of recent court decisions highlighting an array of procedural issues that come up in dissolution cases.
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