This week’s New York Business Divorce focuses on the legal hurdles litigants and their counsel must overcome to discover an opponent or non-party’s confidential tax records and information.
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Derivative Standing and the Internal Affairs Doctrine

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In this week’s New York Business Divorce, read about the Appellate Division – First Department’s important decision last Friday clarifying how courts must apply the internal affairs doctrine to the question of standing to sue in derivative cases involving non-New York incorporated entities.
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“Informal Dissolution” and Individual Liability

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Posted in Corporate Governance
In this week’s New York Business Divorce, read about the unhappy consequences under the “informal dissolution” doctrine to befall a corporate director who effectuated the liquidation of a defunct corporation’s assets without providing statutory notice of dissolution to the entity’s creditors.
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