Shareholder, partnership, and LLC agreements often include mandatory arbitration clauses. Do those clauses require arbitration of judicial dissolution claims? Find out in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
Shareholders considering exercising their right to inspect the corporation’s books and records–particularly in the context of a valuation proceeding under BCL 1118 or 623–would be wise to consider Justice Platkin’s recent primer on different inspection rights and their correspondingly different
Pleading a derivative claim as direct, a direct claim as derivative, or intermingling direct and derivative claims, will likely invite time consuming and potentially expensive motion practice at the outset of a business divorce case. This week’s New York Business
New York Business Divorce proudly presents its 14th annual list of the past year’s ten most noteworthy business divorce cases, along with short summaries and links to prior posts on the featured cases.
In a case featuring your authors as counsel for the prevailing parties, NY County Commercial Division Justice Robert Reed enforces the buy-sell provision of a corporation’s shareholders agreement triggered by the shareholders’ petition for dissolution.
Professor Susan Pace Hamill is one of the leading authorities on the history and evolution of LLCs and LLC jurisprudence. This week’s New York Business Divorce introduces the latest episode of the Business Divorce Roundtable podcast featuring an interview with
In this week’s New York Business Divorce, we tackle one of the most spectacular and well-publicized business falling-outs of modern times: Michael D. Cohen’s departure from the Trump Organization LLC, his resulting criminal conviction, and his cooperation with the Federal
In this week’s New York Business Divorce, read about a recent appeals court decision in which an elderly male business founder alleged he was ousted from the company and his reputation smeared based upon false allegations of sexual harassment allegedly
Earlier this month the Connecticut Supreme Court handed down an important, first impression decision construing RULLCA’s provision granting members of manager-managed LLCs the right to inspect books and records. Read more in this week’s New York Business Divorce.
This week’s New York Business Divorce highlights a pair of recent decisions in judicial dissolution cases in both of which one side claimed to be the 100% owner notwithstanding documents indicating otherwise.