The phrase “naked expulsion clause” is not a biblical reference to Adam and Eve’s eviction from the Garden of Eden. It’s about a provision in an LLC agreement at the center of a recent ruling by the Appellate Division, Second Department, in a 10-year litigation saga involving a fractured family-owned business. This week’s New York Business Divorce has the story.
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Business Divorce Nation: A Cross-Country Tour of Recent Decisions of Interest
It’s time for another cross-country trip in this week’s New York Business Divorce which summarizes a quintet of recent appellate decisions in business divorce cases by courts outside New York. …
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A Business Divorce Rarity: The Jury Trial
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Posted in Derivative Actions, Family-Owned Businesses
In this week’s New York Business Divorce, we consider an unusually nuanced opinion from Commercial Division Justice Marcy S. Friedman about the rules of law (and many exceptions to them) governing the rights of litigants to jury trials in business divorce cases.
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Disputes Over Member Status Continue to Roil the LLC Waters
By Peter A. Mahler on
What is it about LLCs that spawn so many lawsuits over member status and percentage interests? This week’s New York Business Divorce may not have the answer, but it does highlight a trio of recent court decisions involving disputed ownership claims. …
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A Trio of Recent Business Divorce Decisions by Manhattan Commercial Division Judges
By Peter A. Mahler on
The months-long shutdown of New York courts due to the COVID-19 pandemic did not stop the judges of the Manhattan Commercial Division from issuing a number of noteworthy decisions in business divorce cases. This week’s New York Business Divorce highlights three of them. …
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Pave Paradise, Put Up a Purposeful Parking Lot
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This week’s New York Business Divorce visits the Bluegrass State for an interesting appellate ruling in an LLC dissolution case concerning the operating agreement’s purpose clause.
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The Brothers Cortazar Wage War Once Again
By Franklin C. McRoberts on
In this week’s New York Business Divorce, read about two bitterly antagonistic brother/co-owners making their second appearance on this blog, this time in a juicy decision following a full-blown trial on the merits.
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Siblings Battle Over Spoils from Sale of Family-Owned Business
The sale of a family-owned business triggers a dissolution petition over the contested disposition of the sale proceeds, leading to a noteworthy decision earlier this month by Justice Richard M. Platkin. Get the story in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Sue for Dissolution – Get Sued for Defamation?
By Franklin C. McRoberts on
Posted in Family-Owned Businesses
If you bring a business divorce case, do you unwittingly expose yourself to a countersuit for defamation? A recent decision addresses that question in the context of withdrawn petitions by two brothers against their uncle to dissolve three family-owned businesses in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Business Divorce Epilogues
By Peter A. Mahler on
The New York Business Divorce blog has covered hundreds of cases over the past 11 years. This week’s post revisits three of them, two of which were recently resolved, one of which is still going strong, and all of which made the list of Top Ten business divorce cases in years past. …
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