A plaintiff’s “equitable standing” to bring a shareholder derivative action is hardly a common issue in litigation of the sort, which makes all the more interesting last week’s decision by the Delaware Court of Chancery rejecting a plaintiff’s attempt to
In this week’s New York Business Divorce, learn the tough lesson for the dissolution petitioner who states sufficient grounds to dissolve but fails to prove it with evidence accompanying the petition.
This week’s post introduces the latest episode of the Business Divorce Roundtable podcast, featuring an interview with Professor Meredith Miller of Touro Law Center discussing her recent law review article entitled Challenging Gender Discrimination in Closely Held Firms: The Hope
In this week’s New York Business Divorce, read about a beleaguered plaintiff stuck between a rock and a hard place, with some claims arbitrable, but others not.
This week’s New York Business Divorce highlights two thought-provoking law review articles by Professors Meredith Miller and Ann Lipton making the case for expanding common-law doctrine and legislature remedies for discrimination against women owners of closely held business entities.
A recent First Department decision recognizing a cause of action for shareholder oppression raises big questions in the area of minority shareholders’ rights.
This week’s New York Business Divorce treats valuation aficionados to summaries of four recent stock appraisal decisions that made it to the Supreme Court of four different states.
A pair of significant appellate decisions last week address the courts’ remedial powers concerning co-op and condominium board elections and access to the shareholder list for purposes of campaigning for board seats. Learn more in this week’s New York Business
In what he described as “the aftermath of what had been an amicable business divorce,” New York County Commercial Division Justice Joel Cohen discusses several interesting and novel limitations on New York’s cause of action for an equitable accounting.
In this week’s New York Business Divorce, read about the history and development of case law in New York over the past 25 years holding potentially void as against public policy provisions in partnership, shareholders, and operating agreements barring closely-held