A new post in the excellent blawg of Farrell Fritz provides an excellent summary of the New York caselaw on the important issue whether minority members of multi-member LLCs may owe fiduciary duties to other members and to the LLC.
NY Business Divorce published an excellent article about the business judgment rule at https://www.nybusinessdivorce.com/2022/05/articles/family-owned-businesses/principles-of-fiduciary-deference-the-business-judgment-rule-and-exculpatory-clauses/.
The post by Peter Mahler under the link below addresses an issue arises in many sales of businesses, including sales of LLCs.
Here’s the link: https://www.nybusinessdivorce.com/2021/01/articles/buyout/the-duty-to-disclose-third-party-offers-amidst-buy-out-negotiations-revisited/
Under the link below, the Pepper Hamilton law firm discusses a very recent decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery addressing the potential fiduciary liability of persons who are not parties to an LLC operating agreement (in this case, it was an investor) to the parties to the agreement. Here’s the link:
Peter Mahler introduces his latest post in “New York Business Divorce” as follows:
“Is there such a thing as a contractually-infused, common-law fiduciary duty that can override an LLC manager’s “sole and absolute discretion”? Decide for yourself when you read this week’s New York Business Divorce.”
In many operating agreements of multi-member LLCs, the issue Peter addresses is major.
Here’s the link to his post:
The recent decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery under the link below provides an important clarification about how the term “sole and absolute discretion” should be interpreted in Delaware LLC agreements. I suspect courts in other jurisdictions would rule similarly.
Here’s the link:
Under the link below is an excellent post about a recent decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery employing the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing to limit the discretion of one member of a Delaware LLC in taking actions affecting a co-member.
Here’s the link:
The post under the link below discusses a new decision by the Arizona Supreme Court concerning the common law fiduciary duties of LLC managers. While the decision is based on the Arizona LLC act, it may also be significant in other jurisdictions as well.
Here’s the link:
The following, in italics is a citation to a recent and significant article about LLC member self-dealing and about the non-exclusivity of the LLC statutory remedy for the self-dealing:
Volume 59, Issue 9
Nancy McKenna, Esq.
Corporation Forms Bulletin
Wisconsin Limited Liability Company Law Did Not Preempt Common Law Claims By One LLC Against Another Member Based on The Second Member’s Alleged Self-Dealing
Wisconsin Limited Liability Company (LLC) Act did not preempt common-law claims for breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, brought by the LLC’s members against a manager based on the manager’s alleged self-dealing in connection with the LLC’s sale of valuable assets to a company owned by the manager; the LLC Act provided that it was supplemented by principles of law and equity, and while it provided a statutory cause of action for willful failure to deal fairly, it did not state or imply that such cause of action encompassed the entirety of a member’s or manager’s obligations to other members and to the LLC.
Under the link below is a new post from Peter Mahler about an October 5 NY decision about whether inactive members of LLCs have LLC fiduciary duties. The issue is of obvious importance in all U.S. jurisdictions.
Here’s the link: https://www.nybusinessdivorce.com/2018/10/articles/operating-agreement/inactive-member-member-managed-llc-owe-fiduciary-duties/