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California Business Divorce: California Court Recognizes LLC Member Lists as Trade Secrets in Recent Ruling

California Court Recognizes LLC Member Lists as Trade Secrets in Recent Ruling - When an LLC member suspects the company is playing favorites with redemption requests, how much access should they have to the membership rolls...more

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Demand Futility, Dissolution, and Transfer Restrictions: Spring Blooms Fresh Developments in LLC Litigation

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In addition to blooming trees and longer days, spring in New York has ushered in a fresh crop of noteworthy decisions on intra-LLC disputes.  Headliners include a boost to members’ rights to compel an accounting courtesy of...more

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LLC Member States Direct Claims Arising from Machiavellian Manager’s Tactical Bankruptcy Petition

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“There is only going to be one winner here, and it’s not going to be you—give in while there is something still left in it for you,” said one LLC member to the other. With co-owners like that, who needs enemies?...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

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LLC Survives Member’s Death. Dissolution Petition Doesn’t.

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In 2018, two members of a realty holding LLC sought judicial dissolution based on the death of one of the other members. The operating agreement defines a member’s death as an event of “Dissociation.”...more

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Operating Agreement Spawns Multiple Disputes Between 50/50 Members of Realty Holding LLC

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330 West 85th Street is a prime location on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. At that address sits an elegant, pre-war, 48-unit rental apartment building known as The Rexmere. A 4th floor one-bedroom apartment currently is...more

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Pave Paradise, Put Up a Purposeful Parking Lot

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Parking lots breed partnership disputes. I’ve litigated them and I’ve written about them, most notably the Kassab saga. I suppose it’s the untapped development potential of parking lots, especially in flourishing downtown...more

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Top 10 Business Divorce Cases of 2017

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I’m delighted to present my 10th annual list of this past year’s ten most significant business divorce cases. This year’s list includes seven noteworthy appellate decisions, two of which — Mace v Tunick and Shapiro v...more

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“Where’s the Beef?” Says Appeals Court, Reversing LLC Dissolution

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A dissolution petitioner received the judicial equivalent of the old quip “Where’s the beef?” in a Brooklyn appeals court decision last week reversing an order dissolving a limited liability company under Section 702 of the...more

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