Navigating Disputes Within Your Health Care Practice
Williams Mullen Mezzanine Lending Video Series - Episode 4
Private Equity and Delaware Law – Part One
NGE On Demand: Profits Interests: Granting & Receiving with Patty Cain and Josh Klein
Episode 021: Member Liquidity, Default Rules, and the Corporate-ization of LLCs: A Conversation with Dean Donald J. Weidner
Episode 19: The LLC’s Two Worlds: A Conversation with Professor Peter Molk (Part One)
Lawyers on Tap: Tap Tips for Entity Formation and Taxation
Episode 014: Business Divorce Stories: Business Appraiser Tony Cotrupe and Attorney Jeff Eilender
Episode 4: John Cunningham Interview on Avoiding LLC Deadlock
Episode 6: Tom Rutledge Takes on LLC Member Expulsion
Homebuilder Series Webinar: Joint Ventures Solutions, Steve Lear
A prior LLC Jungle post covered the Court of Appeal’s seminal opinion in the Jarvis v. Jarvis case here: Why Having “Co-Managers” for Your LLC is a Terrible Idea. In the Jarvis case, the Court of Appeal affirmed the...more
At a recent Association of Corporate Counsel (Charlotte Chapter) event, Kilpatrick’s Mikail Clark presented on the topic of “Navigating Operating Agreements: Material Terms and Best Practices.”...more
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Sandra Schulte at the media production studios of the Manhattan Neighborhood Network located near the Javits Center. Sandra, whom I met at a CLE program where I was a...more
Indemnification and advancement clauses are often seen as mere boilerplate language in a company’s governing documents, routinely copied from one form agreement to another. However, advancement clauses may be important...more
It’s been 15 years since the Second Department’s decision in Matter of 1545 Ocean Avenue, LLC, 72 AD3d 121, 2010 NY Slip Op 00688 (2d Dept Jan. 26, 2010), which established the standard for judicial dissolution of limited...more
When forming an Arizona limited liability company (“LLC”) crafting a custom operating agreement is one of the most important steps taken to protect the business and ensure its long-term success. While Arizona law doesn’t...more
To practitioners familiar with internal disputes involving closely held companies, the allegations in Lafayette Village Pub, LLC v. Burnham, 2025 NCBC 8, are nothing new. The member running the business (allegedly) made bad,...more
With apologies to the pseudonymous children’s book author Watty Piper, this is the story of a humble buy-sell provision in a family-owned LLC’s operating agreement that temporarily ran out of steam in the lower court, only to...more
Some years are easier than others to select the most significant business divorce cases. In this, the 16th year I’ve published this top-10 list, the task is made especially difficult by a veritable flood of court decisions...more
A primary focus when starting a business should answer this question: What structure provides the most protection? New founders can get bogged down in the minutia about whether to choose a corporation or a limited liability...more
Husband owns 99% membership of manager-managed LLC. Children own remaining 1%. Postnuptial agreement says husband’s “interest” in LLC goes to wife. LLC agreement says any transferee is not admitted as a member absent the...more
Over the past few years, the term “receipts” has entered the pop culture lexicon to mean something broader than its traditional definition of a document that acknowledges either the receiving of a product or service, or money...more
In the private company context, high-performers, senior executives and other vital employees are a company’s lifeblood. It is therefore critically important to retain these top performers, which often requires that the...more
The emergence of the Limited Liability Company as the preferred form of closely-held business association in New York has spawned a glut of litigation over disputed membership status in LLCs, many of which are covered in the...more
Private company majority owners and minority investors often focus on the company’s financial health and growth prospects, and may not take the time to review the operating documents of the business – bylaws for corporations...more
The New York Times yesterday published an article entitled Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room discussing persons suffering from “climate anxiety.” As a northeasterner, the frigid, snow-blessed, ground-freezing winter...more
A recent Tax Court case, Smaldino v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2021-127, provides important lessons on gifting. The Tax Court found that Louis Smaldino understated the size of his gift to a trust set up for his children...more
Lately I’ve been approached by clients and potential clients about series LLCs, so I thought it would be worth blogging about. Basically, a series LLC is an LLC that may create one or more series, each generally having...more
Whether I’m working on a business transaction or assisting business owners with their estate planning, I always look at how the ownership of the LLC is structured. While many business owners have set up a revocable living...more
“I don’t get no respect” was a famous Rodney Dangerfield comedy routine. It also could be ascribed albeit less comedically to tiebreakers assigned the often thankless task of resolving deadlock between 50/50 owners or...more
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
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a wave of economic uncertainty. Many business owners are thinking about succession planning, but they often do not implement a strategy or take necessary steps until faced with an event that...more
This tip might sound counterintuitive to you, and, in any event, it might be unachievable, given that most of the businesses in this country start out, at least, as family businesses, but let me explain. Business people make...more
Buyers of fine art must investigate the work’s provenance before closing the deal. The same holds true for anyone contemplating the acquisition by assignment of a membership interest in a limited liability company....more
This episode features Part One of a two-part conversation with Associate Professor Peter Molk who teaches business law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and who recently published in the U.C. Davis Law Review...more