Closely-held business entities come in all shapes and sizes. By definition, under Partnership Law § 10, it takes “two or more” owners to form a general partnership. But corporations and LLCs have no such impediment, ranging...more
5/17/2024
/ Board Members ,
Breach of Duty ,
Business Entities ,
Business Litigation ,
Business Ownership ,
Corporate Governance ,
Derivative Suit ,
Dispute Resolution ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Limited Liability Company (LLC) ,
Partnerships ,
Shareholders
Sections 706 (d) and 716 (c) of the Business Corporation Law (the “BCL”) both contain a “for cause” standard for judicial removal of corporate directors and officers. Complaints with claims for judicial corporate director and...more
Injunctions are an indispensable weapon in the business divorce lawyer’s arsenal. Primarily defensive in nature, temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions tend to feature prominently at the outset of business...more
A year and a half ago, we blogged about a decision in which Bronx County Supreme Court Justice Llinet M. Rosado ruled that a shareholder’s alleged stock transfer through a bequest in his last will and testament was...more
6/27/2022
/ Business Divorce ,
Business Litigation ,
Business Ownership ,
Buy-Sell Agreements ,
Declaratory Judgments ,
Family Businesses ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Malicious Prosecution ,
Order to Show Cause ,
Ownership Interest ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Shareholders' Agreements ,
Stock Transfer Restrictions ,
Tortious Interference ,
Wills
Ownership status in a closely-held business is the first and most vital box almost every business divorce petitioner must check....more
10/11/2021
/ Business Divorce ,
Business Litigation ,
Business Ownership ,
Closely Held Businesses ,
Dissolution ,
Estoppel ,
Evidence ,
Family Businesses ,
Limited Liability Company (LLC) ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Partnerships ,
Proof of Ownership ,
Tax Returns ,
Trial Preparation
Many business divorce practitioners are familiar with a phenomenon one might call “petitioner’s remorse” – an often abrupt abandonment of one’s desire to dissolve a closely-held business entity when the opposing party...more
Like business divorce, New York trusts and estates litigation (“T&E”) is a highly specialized niche of the law. T&E litigators have their own universe of substantive law, their own set of procedural rules – the Surrogate’s...more
9/3/2019
/ Breach of Duty ,
Business Disputes ,
Business Divorce ,
Business Ownership ,
Corporate Dissolution ,
Decedent Protection ,
Derivative Suit ,
Director Removal ,
Estate Planning ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Jurisdiction ,
Legitimate Business Interest ,
Surrogate's Court
Lawyers are famous for arguing seemingly inconsistent positions at the same time. We practitioners lovingly refer to the technique as “arguing in the alternative.” The famous Texas trial lawyer, Richard “Racehorse” Haynes,...more
The sudden death of Alexander Calderwood, the brilliant but troubled co-founder of the Ace brand of hotels, resulted in some fierce litigation between Calderwood’s estate and Calderwood’s LLC co-member over the nature of his...more
12/27/2017
/ Appeals ,
Business Ownership ,
Contract Terms ,
Decedent Protection ,
Declaratory Judgments ,
Delaware Limited Liability Company Act ,
Discovery ,
Dismissals ,
Estate Claims ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Limited Liability Company (LLC) ,
Operating Agreements ,
Real Party in Interest ,
Transfer of Interest ,
Wills
Oh, the things that can happen when the LLC members identified in the company’s operating agreement differ from those identified in official documents submitted to government agencies....more