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A recent decision from one of our favorites, Albany County Commercial Division Justice Richard M. Platkin, is a reminder to would-be assignees of limited partnership interests that without total compliance with the terms and conditions of the partnership agreement, an attempted assignment conveys only economic rights (i.e., the right to distributions, profits, and losses), but not voting or management rights, even if both sides to the assignment genuinely intended transfer of all ownership rights.

Although not an LLC case, the concept of Marini v Marini Realty LP (2025 NY Slip Op 51138[U] [Sup Ct, Albany County July 2, 2025]), applies equally to LLC members: to become a full-blown equity holder with all attendant rights and privileges, compliance with the governing contract (or if none, the default rules under the Partnership Law and Limited Liability Company Law) is essential. Standard language in such contracts requires unanimity for admission of new equity owners. After all, who wants to take on a new partner without one’s consent? Less than total compliance conveys only economic benefits, not voting or management rights.Continue Reading Hoping to Take Assignment of an LP or LLC Interest? Best Read the Contract

If man’s first sin was eating the apple, a business valuator’s greatest sin is mixing apples and oranges. In Dieckman v. Regency GP, LP, Chancellor Bouchard denied the Plaintiff’s bid for $1.6 billion in damages, even after finding that the defendant general partner breached the partnership agreement’s implied duty of good faith and fair dealing.  The decision rests on Chancellor Bouchard’s complete rejection of Plaintiff’s damages calculation on the grounds that it was akin to “comparing apples to oranges.”…
Continue Reading General Partner Breached Implied Covenants in Partnership Agreement, but Plaintiff’s “Apples-to-Oranges” Calculation Dooms Bid for Damages

In the 25 or so years since New York adopted its Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, last month’s trial court decision in Levine v. Seven Pines Associates, L.P. may be the first to address issues attendant to a post-merger, dissenting limited partner appraisal proceeding. It’s featured in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
Continue Reading Decision in Dissenting Limited Partner Case Directs Fair Value Hearing, Grants Discovery

A recent decision by Manhattan Commercial Division Justice Barbara Kapnick addressed the interplay between anti-assignment provisions in a limited partnership agreement and statutory rights of assignment under New York’s Uniform Limited Partnership Act. Get the full story in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
Continue Reading Do Not Pass Go: Court Rejects Assignment of Limited Partner’s Economic Interest

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla’s recent ruling in Poole v. West 111th Street Rehab Associates illustrates some of the difficult interpretive and factual issues that often accompany internal partnership disputes governed by the “old” Limited Partnership Act adopted by New York in 1922. This week’s New York Business Divorce explains.
Continue Reading Death of a General Partner, or How Not to Plan for Succession in a Limited Partnership

Equitable remedy trumps pick-your-partner, is one way to describe the outcome in Garber v. Stevens, decided last month by Justice Eileen Bransten, who granted a motion by limited partners to remove the wrongdoing general partners of a real estate limited partnership and replace them with an LLC wholly owned by the limited partners. Read more about this unusual case in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Continue Reading The Court’s Equitable Power to Remove and Replace a Limited Partnership’s General Partner