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Delaware Supreme Court Settles Forfeiture-for-Competition Question, Adopts Employee Choice Doctrine - Seventh Circuit Asks, ‘Are...

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Less than two months after the Delaware Supreme Court provided the employers, investment partners and other business leaders that trust in the stability of Delaware law to protect their critical business interests with the...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Free to Forfeit: Delaware High Court Holds Employee Choice Is Proper Lens for Evaluating Forfeiture-for-Competition Provisions in...

In a bombshell ruling last year that upended longstanding Delaware law, the Delaware Chancery Court ruled in Ainslie v. Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., 2023 WL 106924 (Del. Ch. Jan. 4, 2023), that forfeiture-for-competition clauses,...more

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Playing the ‘What If’ Game When Reviewing Fintech–Bank Partnership Agreements

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In this edition of Fintech Flash, we discuss important things to consider when reviewing fintech-bank partnership agreements with a particular focus on their transition sections implicated when agreements are terminated or...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Default Arrangements in Israeli Investment Funds – Unwritten Provisions in Partnership Agreements

Israeli investment funds are incorporated as limited partnerships under the Israeli Partnerships Ordinance. Investors are “limited partners” and the fund manager (or another corporation acting on its behalf) is the “general...more

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Going Rogue: Navigating a Business Through Fraud or Unethical Conduct by a Co-Owner

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Part Two of a Series - Payne & Fears’ Business Litigation Group helps businesses and their owners with wide-ranging disputes. In our practice, we’ve noticed that in disputes among business partners there are common issues...more

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Warning: If You Want Legal Fee Advancement or Indemnification, You May Need to Amend Your Partnership, Shareholder, or Operating...

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The universe works in mysterious ways. Four days ago, when I sat down to write this article, my plan was to feature a decision from Manhattan Commercial Division Justice Andrea J. Masley denying dismissal of a closely-held...more

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Anti-Dissolution Provisions and Public Policy

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In Congel v Malfitano, New York’s highest court wrote that business partners are free to include in partnership contracts practically “any agreement they wish,” including about “the means by which a partnership will dissolve,...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Be Prepared - November 12, 2021 | Issue No. 152 - LP Givebacks Anyone?

This article follows the considerations set out in Chad Stackhouse’s Fund Finance Friday article, “Getting It Right: Recallable Capital Provisions,” published on 9 July 2021....more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

A Bumper Crop: Cannabis Meets Business Divorce

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard that a little over two months ago, New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed legislation reform advocates and stoners alike have dreamt of for decades,...more

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Enforceability of Oral Operating, Shareholder, and Partnership Agreements

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Oral agreements – and oral modifications of written agreements – are a constant source of litigation in business divorce cases. Alleged oral agreements are subject to attack based upon legal enforceability – as well as their...more

Gray Reed

Texas Supreme Court Says Don’t Mess With a Written Contract

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It is no surprise to Texas Supreme Court watchers that in Energy Transfer Partners et al v. Enterprise Products Partners LP et al. the court rejected claims that the parties had created a partnership by actions that varied...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Texas High Court Lays Partnership Formation Questions to Rest

On Friday, January 31, 2020, the Supreme Court of Texas clarified the law of partnership formation in the closely watched case of Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. et al. v. Enterprise Products Partners, L.P. et al. The case...more

Allen Matkins

In This Case, The Contract Had No Beginning

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Known for the elegance of his Latin, French humanist Marc Antoine Muret observed "que Graece Latineque sciat, is, quocunque terrarum venerit, apud plerosque admirationi erit (and whoever knows Greek or Latin, wherever in the...more

Carlton Fields

New York Appellate Division Declines to Enjoin Baltimore Orioles’ Arbitration Against Washington Nationals

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Two professional baseball teams — the Washington Nationals and the Baltimore Orioles — were parties to a partnership agreement granting exclusive broadcast rights to their baseball games to a third entity. The agreement had a...more

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ILPA model limited partnership agreement: attention turns to LP-favourable terms

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ILPA has recently published a model limited partnership agreement (LPA) that reflects preferred terms and practices for the LP community investing in private equity funds. The Model LPA conforms to ILPA Principles 3.0...more

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Texas Court Compels A Limited Partner’s Employment And Defamation Claims To Arbitration Due To The Partnership Agreement’s...

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In Gray vs. Ward, Ward and Gray started a limited partnership where Ward was a limited partner and Gray was a limited partner and the manager of the general partner. No. 05-18-00266-CV, 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 6992 (Tex....more

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Dispute Resolution for Business Partners: The Arbitration Option—Know When to Hold ‘Em, When to Fold ‘Em, and When to Walk Away

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Entrepreneurs launching new companies today take on a significant gamble, because statistics show that roughly 30% of all new start-ups fail within two years, and only half survive for a full five years. Many businesses fail...more

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Law firm’s “no poaching” agreement escapes judicial review, and heads to arbitration

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Justice Saliann Scarpulla was faced with a motion by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to dismiss the Petition brought by the departing partners to stay arbitration in Selendy v. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP. ...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

What can hair metal and grunge bands teach us about IP ownership?

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It has been an interesting several weeks in the trademark world that have transported me back to my halcyon days of high school metal and college grunge (but mostly I was a new wave guy). The years-long litigation going...more

Gray Reed

Texas Court Addresses Bad Acts in a Lease Play

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An opinion that observes “Obviously the jury was not overly enamored with Appellants.” is worth discussing. The decision is Stephens et al v. Three Finger Black Shale Partnership et al....more

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Provisions Limiting Relief and Requiring Strict Confidentiality Doom Arbitration Agreement

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Court of Appeal has invalidated an arbitration agreement between a law firm and its “partner” because the agreement restricted the scope of arbitral relief available and made pre-arbitration proceedings...more

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Summer Shorts: Partnership Appraisal and Other Recent Decisions of Interest

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The dog days of August are upon us, a perfect time as I do each year to offer vacationing readers some lighter fare consisting of summaries of a few recent decisions of interest involving disputes between business co-owners....more

Gray Reed

Pipeline Partnership Verdict Reversed

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Enterprise Products Partners, L.P. et al v. Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. et al reversed one of the largest jury verdicts in Texas history. You will like this decision if... ...more

Porter Hedges LLP

Business Litigation Alert - "Enterprise Products v. ETP: No Legal Obligation really means No Legal Obligation"

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A Texas Court of Appeals ruled this week that when companies agree in writing that they have no legal obligations to proceed with a project, they mean it. That may appear to be a simple concept but a jury came to a different...more

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Business Litigation Alert: "Starting a New Business? Include These Five Provisions in Every Formation Agreement"

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The ultimate success of a business often rests on the ability of its owners to make sound decisions up front - an ounce of prevention, if you will - and avoid bigger problems that might arise later. This principle...more

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