Litigation among owners, officers, directors and shareholders has become commonplace. Clients routinely hire Benowich to counsel and represent them in connection with:
- The preparation and litigation of shareholder agreements
- The preparation and litigation operating agreements in limited liability companies
- The dissolution of closely held corporations
- Shareholder disagreements in family and closely-held corporations
- Claims by and against officers and directors
- Stockholder derivative suits
Past and present clients include:
- A major investor in a publicly held company in a legal malpractice suit arising out of the alleged failure by a national law firm to make material disclosures in a registration statement and prospectus
- A publicly held high-tech company and its board in their defense of a suit arising out of their refusal to consummate a merger
- Shareholders in corporate dissolution proceedings, and partners in partnership dissolution proceedings
- Shareholders in a derivative suit against their corporation, which owned a substantial amount of land that was used by a related private golf club, without any rent or other compensation paid to the corporation for the golf club’s use of the corporation’s land
- Purchasers and sellers in asset purchase and sale transactions