They say revenge is a dish best served cold. In this week’s New York Business Divorce, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay serves his former business partner a cold dish in the form of a large post-trial judgment in a case seeking dissolution and derivative damages on behalf of two out-of-state entities formed to operate defunct Ramsay restaurant “The Fat Cow.”
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LLC Dissolution Statutes Under the Microscope: Podcast Interview with Professor Douglas Moll
This week’s New York Business Divorce highlights and links to a Business Divorce Roundtable podcast interview with Professor Douglas Moll, one of the country’s leading authorities on closely held business entities, in which he discusses the findings from his nationwide survey of LLC judicial dissolution statutes.
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A Pair of Unbrotherly Business Altercations Go to Trial
This week’s New York Business Divorce features a pair of post-trial decisions by Justice Timothy Dufficy in two cases — one seeking dissolution of an LLC, the other seeking to establish a de facto partnership — both of which involved contested ownership as between two sets of brothers.
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New Jersey Supreme Court Raises the Bar for Judicial Expulsion of LLC Members
The New Jersey Supreme Court last week issued an important decision tightening the criteria for judicial expulsion of an LLC member. Get the story in this week’s New York Business Divorce. …
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Dissociated LLC Member Faces “Equitable” Forced Buy-Out
Equity jurisprudence cozies up to LLCs in the appellate ruling highlighted in this week’s New York Business Divorce involving the forced sale of a dissociated member’s interest. …
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Involuntary Member Dissociation Under RULLCA
In states that have enacted the Revised Uniform LLC Act, courts can expel or “dissociate” a member on specified grounds including the member’s conduct that makes it no longer reasonably practicable to carry on the LLC’s activities with that person as a member. In this week’s New York Business Divorce, read about a recent New Jersey appellate decision applying that state’s version of the dissociation statute. …
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