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NJ Appellate Court Outlines LLCs' Path to Rescind Erroneous Certificates of Dissolution

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A recent New Jersey appellate decision underscores the need for the leaders of limited liability companies (LLCs) to consider how to eliminate the risk of fraudulent, inaccurate or mistaken filings by former members and...more

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How Can Managers Be Lawfully Removed under the Commercial Companies Law in the UAE?

In the UAE, the process for lawfully removing a manager from a company is governed by Federal Decree-Law No. 32/2021 on Commercial Companies. This comprehensive legislation outlines the procedures and requirements for the...more

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Current Developments in Cross-Border Litigation | Enforcement Against Foreign Controlled Party Through Reverse Pierce of the...

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Reverse piercing attaches liability for the judgment to a corporations’ owners and/or directors because they exercise complete dominion of the business, and such domination was used to commit a fraud against the plaintiff....more

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Business Owner Alert: Corporate Transparency Act Requires New Ownership Reporting in 2024 and Beyond

It has been many years in the making, but the effective date of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) is finally here. The CTA, enacted in 2021, is designed to prevent money laundering and other unlawful activity...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

The U.S. Corporate Transparency Act is Almost Here

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This is the second in a two-part series discussing the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) – new legislation enacted by Congress in January 2021, as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020. Read the first part of this...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

“Equitable Buyout” as a Remedy for LLC Wrongdoing?

In the world of LLCs, buyouts — where one member sells his/her membership interest to another member or the LLC itself — are commonplace. Buyouts generally fall into one of two categories: contractual — where the...more

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Proposed SEC Rules Aim at Putting Private Funds More in Public View

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Whether everyday Americans saving for retirement, college tuition, or their forever homes know it or not, there’s a chance that their money is tied, directly or indirectly, to private funds. Moreover, those Americans probably...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Winter Case Notes: Punitive Damages Awarded for Breach of Fiduciary Duty and Other Recent Decisions of Interest

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Notwithstanding that the pictured snow globe is the only snow I’ve seen in my neck of the woods this balmy winter, I’m pleased to present my annual Winter Case Notes collection of recent court decisions of interest....more

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Court Held That Those In Control Of A Limited Liability Company May Owe Fiduciary Duties To The Company And Its Members

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​​​​​​​In In re Mijares, a plaintiff claimed that a defendant defrauded him and breached fiduciary duties owed to him by charging improper, excessive, and unauthorized expenses to their medical practice, causing the...more

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A Loan Is a Loan Is a Loan, Except When It’s Equity

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Disputes over capital accounts and equity percentages are frequent fodder for business divorce litigation — especially in LLCs without operating agreements. Exemplars previously treated on this blog include Chiu v Chiu, an...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Alter Ego, Equity, and Reverse Veil Piercing for LLCs

Normally, a business entity is considered a legal person separate and apart from its individual owners.  But when the entity is used by an owner to perpetrate a fraud, circumvent a statute, or accomplish some other wrongful...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Defending On All Sides: Common Discovery Perils In Parallel Civil And Criminal Cases

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On March 11, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted a stay in the civil case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) against GPB Capital Holdings, LLC (“GPB Capital”),...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

The Title Reporter – Spring 2021

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Here is what we cover in this issue of The Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry: •A trial court in New York has rejected a counterclaim filed against a title insurance company in a case it...more

Morris James LLP

Superior Court Applies Affiliate Privilege Doctrine To Dismiss Tortious Interference Claim Against Controller, While Sustaining...

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Surf’s Up Legacy Partners, LLC v. Virgin Fest, LLC, C.A. No. N19C-11-092 PRW CCLD (Del. Super. Jan. 13, 2021) - In adjudicating a dispute over a scuttled deal in the music festival industry, the Delaware Superior Court...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Penal Code Remedies for LLC Misappropriation?

Can the sledgehammer remedies of California Penal Code section 496 — treble (triple) damages and attorney fees — apply for misappropriation of an LLC’s property? The California Supreme Court is set to answer that question...more

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Delaware Court of Chancery Dispenses with Multiple Motions and Claims as Business Partners Take a “Kitchen Sink” Approach to...

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Stone & Paper Investors, LLC, et al., v. Richard Blanch et al., C.A. No. 2018-0394-PAF (Del. Ch. June 29, 2020) involved a barrage of claims and counterclaims among LLC members and managers, including, misappropriation of...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

First Department Holds That “Sole and Absolute Discretion” Clause Does Not Preclude Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claim

In Shatz v. Chertok, the First Department affirmed in part and reversed in part a decision by Justice Jennifer G. Schechter of the Commercial Division. The key issue on appeal was whether a New York limited liability...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Courts Split Over Application of Penal Code to Claims of LLC Misappropriation

Almost one year ago, in Switzer v. Wood, California’s Fifth Appellate District held that an LLC manager or member participating in the theft of the LLC’s property could face liability under Penal Code section 496 — a statute...more

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Death of Limited Partner Disarms Derivative Action

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I’ve yet to see him make a court appearance, and hope I never do, but the Grim Reaper sure has a knack for disrupting business divorce litigation involving LLCs and limited partnerships....more

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A Lease and a Lease Guaranty Involve Different Rights and Remedies

Sister blog The LLC Jungle recently posted about an opinion from California’s Sixth District Court of Appeal — Orozco v. WPV San Jose, LLC — describing the legal difference between an LLC tenant, and the LLC’s owner who...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

An LLC And Its Owner Are Not the Same Legal “Person”

A limited liability company (LLC) is a popular form of business entity. One of the main reasons for forming any business entity is to limit liability. In general, without a showing of “alter ego” liability, a business owner...more

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Oil Fraudster Conspires with His Own LLC

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In January I commented on the partnership that wasn’t and the lawyer whose actions give the rest of us a bad name. That was Stephens et al. v. Three Finger Black Shale Partnership et al. The court of appeal has substituted...more

Troutman Pepper

Texas Court Finds Out-of-State Defendant With Majority Ownership in Texas-Based Entity Not Subject to Personal Jurisdiction in...

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EnerQuest Oil & Gas, L.L.C. v. Antero Resources Corporation, No. 02-18-000178CV, 2019 BL 130860 (Tex. App. – Fort Worth Apr. 11, 2019) - A Texas appellate court recently found that an out-of-state Oklahoma-based limited...more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

What are some of the monetary penalties and other consequences of failing to properly report my foreign real estate and other...

Depending upon how foreign real estate is owned and/or controlled, a number of different tax reporting regimes may be implicated.  Each of these has its own corresponding penalties and generally applies to United States...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Hidden in Orchestra Pits and Behind Corporate Veils

...Corporations and limited liability companies (which I will refer to collectively as a company) can be like a pit orchestra. Depending upon how they are set up, it may or may not be obvious who is behind them. What is...more

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