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Wash Hands Before Suing

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By Peter A. Mahler on July 6, 2015
Posted in Common Law Dissolution, Derivative Actions, Dissolution Defenses

A recent First Department ruling in Sansum v. Fioratti is one of the few reported instances in which the defense of unclean hands was successfully asserted to defeat on the merits a minority shareholder’s claim for corporate dissolution. Read this week’s New York Business Divorce to find out more. …
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