Shareholder & Partnership Disputes
The firm represents LLC members, managers, partners, and closely held companies in disputes involving fiduciary duties, ownership, capital contributions, voting rights, management authority, access to records, deadlock, and contested buyouts.
The analysis begins with the governing documents and the parties’ actual course of conduct. Depending on the client’s objectives, the matter may proceed through information demands, negotiation, litigation, or a structured equity separation. When the owners separate, the transaction documents must address payment, releases, governance changes, intellectual property, customers, and continuing obligations with the same care as the dispute itself.
Services
- LLC member, manager, and partnership dispute litigation
- Fiduciary duty claims — prosecution and defense
- Contested buyouts and capital contribution disputes
- Deadlock, authority, voting-rights, and governance conflicts
- Books-and-records demands and information rights
- Negotiated equity unwinds and settlement documentation
Representative Experience
Lead counsel in partnership/member disputes and corporate governance conflicts involving equity ownership controversies.
Counsel to LLC members and managers in contested buyouts, capital contribution disputes, and fiduciary duty claims.
Drafted settlement agreements and negotiated equity unwind arrangements resolving owner conflicts.
Representative matters. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Process
Governing-document read
The operating or partnership agreement decides half the case before it starts.
Leverage build
Information rights, fiduciary positions, and the economic pressure points.
Prosecution or defense
Litigated only as far as the exit requires.
The unwind
Because most owner disputes end in separation, documented so it holds.
FAQs
My partner is freezing me out. What can I do?
Available remedies may include contractual information rights, statutory inspection rights, fiduciary-duty claims, and relief provided by the governing documents. The appropriate sequence depends on the documents and the conduct at issue.
Can I be forced out of my own company?
Only as the agreement or a court allows — which is why the first question is always what you signed, and the second is what conduct has occurred since.
Do these cases actually go to trial?
Many owner disputes resolve through a negotiated separation, but some require dispositive proceedings or trial. Any settlement should fully document the transfer, payment, releases, governance changes, and continuing obligations.
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Counsel to LLC members, shareholders, and partners in ownership and governance disputes.