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A Bumper Crop: Cannabis Meets Business Divorce

By Franklin C. McRoberts on July 6, 2021

It turns out marijuana entrepreneurships are just as susceptible to co-ownership disputes as traditional business ventures. In this week’s New York Business Divorce, we address a familiar subject – oral partnership agreements – in an exciting new context – the burgeoning New York State legal cannabis market.
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A Trio of Recent Business Divorce Decisions by Manhattan Commercial Division Judges

By Peter A. Mahler on June 15, 2020

Posted in Derivative Actions, Family-Owned Businesses, Foreign Business Entities, LLCs

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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