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Funding the Buyout of a Deceased Shareholder With Corporate-Owned Life Insurance – Did the Court Decide Connelly Correctly?

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You may have heard or even read about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding the date of death value of a deceased shareholder’s shares in a closely held corporation that owned a life insurance policy on the...more

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Supreme Court Decision in Connelly v. United States

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On June 6, 2024, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in in Connelly, As Executor of the Estate of Connelly v. United States, (602 US ________). The decision involves the application of the federal estate tax...more

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Buyouts of Closely Held Shares: All’s Fair Value in Love and War

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In matters of corporate divorce, deadlock, majority oppression, or usurpation of corporate opportunities are all well-tread grounds for disputes between co-owners of closely held entities. These disputes often culminate in...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Statutory Buyouts and Discounts Under the Fair Market Value Standard: An Awkward Pair?

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Valuation discounts can and often do play an outsized role in contested appraisal proceedings involving the valuation of equity interests in closely held business entities for which there is no public market....more

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Further Observations on Fair Value: FAED, the Fair and Equitable Discount - Current Issues in Closely Held Businesses Series: Part...

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Once it is understood that "fair value" is not the same as "fair market value," there appears to be two general views of what is "fair value" in the context of breach of fiduciary duty or shareholder oppression cases. For...more

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Buy Out at Fair Value - Current Issues in Closely Held Businesses Series: Part 5

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The prior discussion, Determining a Remedy After Oppression or Breach of Fiduciary Duty (Part 4), presented a listing of the potential remedies on a finding of a breach of duty and oppression. Frequently, the animosity among...more

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Shareholder Oppression Claims: Looking Past the Urban Myth to Remedies that Continue to Survive in The Real World of Texas Law

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Many Texas lawyers and their private company clients continue to refer to the claim for shareholder oppression as if it remains a viable cause of action under Texas law. And yet, for all practical purposes, the claim for...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

How to Initiate a Fair Value Appraisal Proceeding – a Dissenter’s Checklist

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Over the years, we’ve written a lot about limited partnership, corporation, and LLC “fair value” appraisal proceedings....more

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Episode 8: Minority Oppression in the LLC: Interview With Professor Douglas Moll

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The combination of majority rule and lack of exit rights leaves minority members of LLCs vulnerable to oppressive conduct by the majority, yet unlike legislation in most states giving dissolution and buy-out remedies to...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Financing the Business Buyout – Part II (Investors)

Last month, Part I on this topic discussed the problem facing a Remaining Spouse when the Departing Spouse rejects a buyout offer of a modest down payment and a long installment note: How to raise sufficient cash to avoid a...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Texas Supreme Court Decision in Ritchie v. Rupe

On June 20, 2014, the Texas Supreme Court issued its opinion in Ritchie v. Rupe, 2014 Tex. LEXIS 500 (Tex. 2014). In Ritchie, a minority shareholder in a closely held corporation attempted to force the majority shareholders...more

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