Shareholders, Business Divorce, Partnerships

Corporate Divorce – Preventing and Managing the Break-Up of a Business Partnership

Nossaman LLP on 6/1/2025

In this episode, Kimberly Kamkar is joined by corporate law partners Patrick Richard, Anna Tang and Doug Schwartz to explore the complexities of business "break-ups." They discuss essential practices for future planning, the...more

I’ll Cry if I Want To – But Taking Steps to Avoid Tears Is a Better Strategy for Private Company Business Partners

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/14/2025

In recent years, the headlines have tracked the news of high-profile breakups among business partners in private companies. These business partner fallouts include: - 2023: Sam Altman was ousted as Open AI CEO (for...more

Special Considerations for Law Firm Breakups

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 7/8/2024

Just a few weeks ago, I commented on a recent uptick in disputes centered on the breakup of professional services firms. In those disputes, we expect that the demands of the legal, accounting, and medical professions draw...more

Enforceability of Oral Operating, Shareholder, and Partnership Agreements

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 8/24/2020

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

Summer Shorts: Partnership Appraisal and Other Recent Decisions of Interest

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 8/13/2018

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

Dead Men Tell No Tales of Shareholder Buy-Outs Gone Sour

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 7/16/2018

When three gentlemen in their mid-eighties, one of whom is in a nursing home with failing health and onset dementia, are the key players in a disputed shareholder buy-out transaction, what are the odds they’ll all be around...more

You Sued for Dissolution, They Elected to Buy You Out, What Else Do You Want?

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 6/18/2018

Article 11 of the Business Corporation Law features multiple provisions giving judges broad authority and discretion to impose interim remedies designed to preserve corporate assets and otherwise to protect the petitioning...more

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