MINORITY SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS - BUY-OUTS- BUSINESS BREAK-UPS

Many small businesses, despite their commercial success, encounter conflicts and litigations as founders age or want to move in a different direction. Our firm has been involved in a number of lawsuits in recent years involving minority shareholder rights in a small business context. Often, the controlling majority shareholders want to force or freeze out the minority shareholders and not provide them with fair value for their ownership interest.

We have successfully litigated a number of such corporate minority shareholder rights and corporate freeze out cases. We pride ourselves in supplying top quality commercial litigation for smaller and medium size businesses. We believe that we offer the same quality of work that is available to major corporate firms.

The range of cases covers the gambit of business disputes: contract and sales matters arising under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC); international trade matters and collection of receivables. Too often when such business disputes arise, the cost of litigation proves disastrous for all parties. We offer a "hands on" involvement of our most senior and most experienced attorneys, Debora A. O'Neill and Jack Meyerson, to work directly with the shareholders involved to litigate their rights and the derivative rights of the corporation.

If a lawyer through negligence forfeits an important claim of a client, we do not hesitate to take aggressive action, even if it involves suing another lawyer to seek justice. We are particularly concerned where individuals have experienced live-altering events where the results have been cataclysmic. These types of cases are common in legal malpractice cases: personal injury, wrongful death, legal malpractice, cardiac arrest, medical malpractice, products liability, criminal defense, prescription drugs, birth defects, corporate fraud, commercial litigation, worksite injuries.

In this way we enable smaller and medium size businesses to obtain top quality legal counsel from our most senior and experienced attorneys. We begin with a free consultation to determine if we can be helpful in a particular business contact. Contact our firm through the below form to arrange for such a consultation for us to review your shareholder/ business conflict or derivative claim.