Shareholders, Family Businesses, Corporate Dissolution

On Camera: My Recent Video Interview on, What Else, Business Divorce (Part One)

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 7/7/2025

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

IP Disputes Among Private Business Co-Owners Dominate Three Recent Cases

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 12/3/2018

Last month gave us three noteworthy post-trial decisions in three different cases from three different states, all centering on disputes among business co-owners over the ownership and exploitation of the businesses’s core...more

Court Orders Family-Owned Business to Hold Annual Shareholder Meeting

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 9/26/2018

Corporate shareholders with voting shares have the right to elect a corporation’s directors. Elections typically occur at an annual shareholder meeting. ...more

Son’s Lawsuit to Dissolve Family Business Based Upon Relatives’ “Vendetta” Against Him Allowed To Proceed

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 9/10/2018

A judge in the Supreme Court for the State of New York recently allowed a petition for “common law dissolution” of a family-owned business filed by one shareholder to proceed despite the arguments of the other shareholders...more

And the Award For Most Oppressive Conduct By a Majority Shareholder Goes to . . .

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 8/14/2017

Over the years I’ve litigated and observed countless cases of alleged oppression of minority shareholders by the majority. Oppression can take endlessly different forms, some more crude than others in their execution, some...more

An Oppression How-To: Revoke Employment, Profit Sharing and Control

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 2/20/2017

An earlier post on this blog, examining a post-trial decision in Matter of Digeser v Flach, 2015 NY Slip Op 51609(U) [Sup Ct Albany County Nov. 5, 2015], described the minority shareholder’s dissolution claim under Section...more