A recent decision by Justice Richard Platkin concerning a dispute over the inclusion of goodwill value in a partnership valuation case takes the spotlight in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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Winter Case Notes: LLC Manager Removal and Other Recent Decisions of Interest
New York Business Divorce this week inaugurates Winter Case Notes, offering synopses of three recent decisions by Supreme Court Justices Richard Platkin, Stephen Bucaria, and Cynthia Kern in cases involving the removal of an LLC manager and other issues of interest to business divorce professionals.
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Death of a Shareholder
This week’s New York Business Divorce highlights a recent decision by Justice Richard Platkin in a case involving a fractured family-owned business where the deaths of two shareholders before and during litigation triggered a consequential change in control. …
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A Classic Case of Minority Shareholder Oppression
If you’re looking for a good old-fashioned case of minority shareholder oppression, look no further than this week’s New York Business Divorce which examines Justice Richard Platkin’s recent decision in Matter of Digeser v Flach. …
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Post-Buyout Election Interim Remedies: Bond, Injunction, or Both?
Justice Richard Platkin’s decision last month in O’Connor v. Coccadotts, Inc., denying a dissolution petitioner’s preliminary injunction motion after the respondent elected to purchase the petitioner’s shares, focuses attention on the interim remedies available to ensure that the eventual fair-value award will be paid. Learn more in this week’s New York Business Divorce. …
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Special Rules Govern Service in Corporate Dissolution Proceedings
This week’s New York Business Divorce highlights a recent, important ruling by an appellate court concerning the requirements for service of the petition in corporate dissolution proceedings. …
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A Potpourri of Procedural Issues in Dissolution Cases
Disputes over procedural issues are no less common in dissolution proceedings — and with consequences no less important — than in other types of civil litigation. This week’s New York Business Divorce samples a number of recent court decisions highlighting an array of procedural issues that come up in dissolution cases.
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Court Chooses Voluntary Dismissal Over Buy-Out in Two-Year Dissolution Case
A decision last month by Albany Justice Richard Platkin in Matter of Ryan (Integra Networks, Inc.) opted in favor of the petitioners’ request to voluntarily discontinue their corporate dissolution proceeding over the respondents’ request for leave to make an untimely buy-out election. Find out why in this week’s New York Business Divorce. …
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De Facto Dissolution of LLC Does Not Terminate Members’ Fiduciary Duty or Avoid Accounting for Subsequent Profits
The Appellate Division, Third Department, has ruled that an LLC member’s fiduciary duties continue even after the de facto break-up of the company. Read about this important decision in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
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LLC Member’s Marital Woes Lead to Loss of Membership Interest
This week’s New York Business Divorce examines an intriguing case involving an LLC whose operating agreement required a member to transfer his interest to the other members because of his filing of a divorce action against his wife. When the divorcing member refused to do so, he bought himself a second divorce litigation, of the business kind.
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