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In the business environment disputes arrive often and it is important to have an experienced attorney advising you. You need an attorney in following cases. First, if a lawsuit is suing your business. Secondly, if your business needs to enforce its interests with its own business litigation lawsuit. Thirdly, if there is dispute within the business itself. A business litigation attorney in Lakewood can help you in these cases.
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The idea with any commercial litigation setting is to shelter the business from the harmful effects of commercial litigation. It is important to keep your businesses brand in a positive light. In addition, it is important to maintain your established business contacts and resolve business disputes. The solution should be reasonable and in cost-effective manner. As a result, it keeps your business on track for future success into the future.
What is the business litigation process in New Jersey?
In a typical case, a plaintiff files the case and defendant answer it with various counterclaims. For an example, let’s choose a dispute over control between two members of an LLC which is common dispute.
In this scenario, let’s say that BAT LLC is a New Jersey LLC that was formed in 2010. BOB and SAM, the members, has 75% (BOB) and 25% (SAM) membership interests in the company. Let’s say that in 2014, BAT LLC amended its operating agreement so that BOB and SAM had exclusive management control over BAT LLC. They exercised the management by votes in proportion to their percentage interest in the company.
As with any business let’s assume that BAT LLC experienced a good business cycle for the next 5 years. However, by 2019, BAT faces difficult business circumstances. Now, BOB and SAM could not come to terms on how to deal with the new unfortunate business climate. In this example, BOB volunteers to inject his own capital in exchange for additional equity in the company. However, SAM feels that new management and outside capital will cure their business issues.
BOB and SAM ask for Help from their Business Litigation Lawyer
Company management gets wind that SAM wants a management change and in self-protection convinces BOB that he needs to take control of the company. BOB agrees, and is convinced that SAM is the problem and reaches out to counsel for advice on how divorce SAM from the business. BOB’s counsel drafts a plan to buy out SAM’s minority membership interests. Therefore, It sends an email to SAM making the buyout offer. SAM rejects the offer and responds that she desires to turn BAT’s fortunes around with a joint plan. And maybe after a more favorable business climate exists, she will consider a better buyout in the future. She also kindly reminds BOB of how her minority interest is protected in BAT as per its operating agreement. Moreover, she suggest that that members come together to address the business issues.
BOB’s lawyers, after receiving SAM’s response prepare an alternative plan to forcibly remove the minority member protections by using a reverse domestication.
Reverse Domestication
RULLCA permits a New Jersey LLC to become a foreign LLC (reverse domestication) if the foreign jurisdiction’s law authorizes and permits the change. In this case, the law is to compiled with by the LLC (in our example, formation of Delaware LLC is to transact a “freeze-out”). BOB’s lawyers find this loop hole because BAT’s operating agreement did not address a member’s rights with regard to a merger, and therefore, BAT can be reverse domesticated into the new entity by a simple majority vote, thereby depriving the minority members (SAM) of their management rights they thought they had. SAM gets another email from BOB’s lawyers whereby they advised SAM of the new operating agreement and Delaware LLC.
SAM now faces the situation that the new Delaware LLC can dilute SAM’s interest by the new Delaware LLC issuing new preferred interests to BOB. SAM’s head is spinning and now must sue along with the company’s other minority members alleging, among other claims, breach of fiduciary duty.
These are the type of complex issues and fact patters that arise in business litigation. Our business litigation attorney in Lakewood have the skills to deal with business dispute as set forth in this example. Moreover, we work in the area like Contract Dispute, Breach of Contract Claim, Business Freeze-Outs, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Partnership Dispute, Stockholder Derivative Suits, Stockholder Dispute, Owners Dispute or Business Divorce. Give our business litigation attorney in Lakewood a call today, we make a great deal of business sense.