This week’s post considers a duo of recent decisions concerning disputes between LLC members over the terms of their operating agreement. In the first case, the court considered whether to enforce an operating agreement as written despite evidence that the parties actually intended a different deal. In the second, the court considered whether to enforce an operating agreement where its buyout terms were grossly unfair. The cases’ different outcomes highlight the outer limits of the parties’ freedom of contract in LLC operating agreements.
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Holes in Shotgun Buy-Sell Agreement Keep Deadlock Dissolution Petition Alive
Does an LLC’s member’s pulling the trigger on a shotgun buy-sell agreement foreclose a petition for deadlock-based dissolution? Not if the members can’t agree on the terms of the sale, holds Vice Chancellor Slights. …
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Will the Pandemic Be a Boon for Future LLC Dissolution Claimants?
In this week’s New York Business Divorce, we consider a remarkably thoughtful opinion by Commercial Division Justice Jennifer G. Schecter containing some noteworthy hints about the future of LLC dissolution claims in light of the coronavirus pandemic and its catastrophic economic impact on New York closely-held businesses.
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Is Exclusion from LLC Enough for Dissolution?
In contrast to close corporations, the freeze-out of an LLC’s minority member, without more, does not suffice to plead a valid claim for judicial dissolution, according to an appellate ruling earlier this month in Doyle v. Icon, LLC. It’s in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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