In this week’s New York Business Divorce, learn if it’s possible to plead the existence of a viable oral partnership whose business operated in the form of a corporation or limited liability company. The short answer: yes it can be done, but it’s not easy to do.
Continue Reading The Oral Partnership Operating as a Corporation: Is it a Partnership? A Corporation? Can it be Both?
This week’s New York Business Divorce examines a recent decision in a lawsuit stemming from a buyout between the two members of a single-asset realty-holding LLC based on a $1.9 million valuation of the LLC’s realty followed one month later by a sale of the realty to a third-party buyer for $2.9 million.
Continue Reading The Duty to Disclose Third-Party Offers Amidst Buy-Out Negotiations, Revisited
In this week’s New York Business Divorce, read about one of the most mighty and effective litigation tools for business divorce lawyers and their clients: the injunction.
Continue Reading The Injunction Remedy in Business Divorce Cases
In this week’s New York Business Divorce, read about a first-of-its-kind decision announcing the existence under New York law of a potentially viable claim for common-law LLC dissolution.
Continue Reading First-Impression Decision Recognizes a Cause of Action for Common-Law LLC Dissolution
Courtesy of a recent decision by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Leon Ruchelsman, this week’s New York Business Divorce examines a case in which the court dismissed a petition for judicial dissolution of an LLC after finding that the petitioner failed to show he possessed a membership interest.
Continue Reading Court Looks to Partnership Law in Ruling Against Petitioner’s Status as LLC Member