In Digirolomo v. Sugar LI, LLC, decided last month by Justice Stephen Bucaria, the court devised a novel solution in a lawsuit between LLC members, designed to bring about an equitable buy-out, by conditioning injunctive relief on the plaintiffs filing an amended complaint seeking dissolution. Don’t miss it in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Arms-Length Sale of Corporation’s Assets Establishes Value in Stock Appraisal Proceeding
In Matter of Banani, decided last month by Justice Stephen Bucaria, the petitioner in a dissenting shareholder appraisal proceeding asked the court to accept as conclusive evidence of the company’s value the price received in a sale of substantially all the company’s assets. Find out if the court granted the request in this week’s New York Business Divorce. …
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Equitable Dissolution of Limited Partnerships
If until now you haven’t encountered a case involving the “equitable” dissolution of a partnership, join the club. Find out more in this week’s New York Business Divorce which highlights a recent decision by Justice Stephan Bucaria in a 10-year litigation among the general partners of several limited partnerships governed by the outmoded Uniform Limited Partnership Act. …
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Summer Shorts: The Excluded LLC Member and Other Decisions of Interest
This week’s New York Business Divorce offers some “summer shorts” consisting of summaries of three recent decisions of interest by Justices Orin Kitzes, Stephen Bucaria and Ellen Coin featuring involving exclusion of a minority LLC member seeking dissolution, a request for injunctive relief pending the trial of a corporate dissolution case, and a cmplaint seeking profit share following the revocation of an LLC membership purchase agreement.
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Some Winter Case Notes
This week’s New York Business Divorce features brief summaries of a handful of noteworthy court decisions that escaped my attention last year, including a pair of decisions involving deadlock and oppressed minority shareholder disputes, and another pair of decisions involving receivership applications.
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Revoking the Buy-Out Election: It Ain’t Easy
In 1986, the legislature amended the statutory buy-out provision in judicial dissolution proceedings to make it harder to revoke an election to purchase. This week’s New York Business Divorce highlights a recent decision by Justice Stephen Bucaria in Matter of Gold, where the court was asked to revoke an election to purchase after the petitioner’s stock interest was valued. …
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Obtaining Discovery of the Company Lawyer in Business Divorce Cases: Privileged or Not?
This week’s New York Business Divorce features an interesting decision by Justice Stephen Bucaria addressing the attorney-client privilege concerning company counsel in a dispute between membership factions of an LLC. Don’t miss it.
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Judges Thinking Outside the LLC Dissolution Box
This week’s New York Business Divorce looks at two recent decisions by Justices Stephen Bucaria and Emily Pines granting “outside the box” remedies in LLC dissolution cases, one involving buyout and the other involving appointment of a temporary receiver to act as monitor of financial records.
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Venue, Menu and Hebrew: Short Takes on Three Dissolution Cases
This week’s New York Business Divorce offers short summaries of three recent cases involving shareholder disputes. Two of them address procedural issues concerning venue and the court’s post-settlement enforcement power, and the third, well, you’ll just have to read it for yourself.
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Deadlock Over Voluntary Dissolution Agreement Leads to Involuntary Judicial Dissolution
Is the statutory remedy of judicial dissolution available when shareholders fail to implement a prior agreement for a voluntary winding up and dissolution? Nassau County Justice Stephen A. Bucaria answers the question in Matter of Toledano (Home Tower Group, Inc.), featured in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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