“Yet another unfortunate example of a family business dispute that has developed into needless litigation” is how Justice Shirley Kornreich describes a partnership dispute pitting daughter against father and sisters. Get the story in this week’s New York Business Divorce. …
Continue Reading Court Chides Parties in Family Partnership Dispute for “Needless” Litigation with “Obvious Outcome”

This week’s New York Business Divorce closes out the year with an interesting decision by Justice Timothy Driscoll dismissing a dissolution petition that followed the sale of an LLC’s sole real estate asset based on the broad purpose clause in the parties’ LLC agreement.. …
Continue Reading LLC Agreement’s All-Purpose Purpose Clause Defeats Dissolution Petition

A case decided last month by Justice Timothy Driscoll in Gilbert v Weintraub raises but doesn’t answer the tantalizing question whether a member of a multi-member, member-managed LLC with no operating agreement can shed fiduciary obligations and freely start a competing business by disavowing any management role in the prior business. This week’s New York Business Divorce has the story. …
Continue Reading Can LLC Members Walk Away From Fiduciary Duties?

A recent decision by Maryland’s highest court addresses the intersection of minority shareholder rights under the “oppression” statute and the at-will employment doctrine, including a thoughtful discussion of less drastic, alternative remedies to dissolution when oppression is established. Learn more in this week’s New York Business Divorce. …
Continue Reading Less Drastic Measures: Maryland Case Highlights Non-Dissolution Remedies for Oppressed Minority Shareholders

This week’s New York Business Divorce features a guest post by Daniel S. Kleinberger, Emeritus Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law and renowned expert on business organizations. His topic: the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing under Delaware law. …
Continue Reading Unraveling the Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing: Guest Post by Professor Daniel Kleinberger

This week’s New York Business Divorce examines a recent Justice Bucaria decision that, upon reconsideration, allows an LLC member’s suit to recover withheld distributions to proceed without necessity of amending her complaint to seek judicial dissolution. The decision also prompts a look at the LLC Law’s statute of repose for “wrongful distributions.”…
Continue Reading LLC “Squabble” Gets Back Its Day in Court

If you’re looking for a good old-fashioned case of minority shareholder oppression, look no further than this week’s New York Business Divorce which examines Justice Richard Platkin’s recent decision in Matter of Digeser v Flach. …
Continue Reading A Classic Case of Minority Shareholder Oppression

A 2-against-1 battle between sibling co-owners of a third-generation family business leads to an interesting decision by Justice Duane Hart concerning a disputed stock buyback, highlighted in this week’s New York Business Divorce. …
Continue Reading Court Rejects Majority’s Gambit to Compel Buyback of Shares in Family-Owned Business

Equity jurisprudence cozies up to LLCs in the appellate ruling highlighted in this week’s New York Business Divorce involving the forced sale of a dissociated member’s interest. …
Continue Reading Dissociated LLC Member Faces “Equitable” Forced Buy-Out