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Successfully Navigating a Business Divorce: The Importance of a Corporate Prenup

Learn how to successfully create a corporate prenup and avoid conflicts when partners leave the business.

This topic will review conflicts that frequently arise between majority owners and substantial minority investors in private companies. Learn how to successfully create a partner exit plan, sometimes known as a corporate prenup, which helps avoid conflicts when partners leave the business. Review legal remedies available to minority investors when they think that their rights have been violated by the company's majority owners. This topic will also discuss concerns that arise when business divorces occur in a marital divorce proceeding and involve the division of marital ownership interests in private companies.

60 minutes
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Agenda

Business Divorce Explained

Issues Causing Conflicts Between Business Partners - Conflict Avoidance Strategies

Key Elements of Corporate Governance Documents

The Precursor to Business Partner Litigation - Two Sides of the Coin

The Law of Shareholder Oppression

Get a Corporate Prenup/Partner Exit Plan in Place

Elements of Buy-Sell Agreement

Valuation Questions

Structuring Buyout of Partner Interest

Non-Equity Options to Consider That Provide Incentives

Derivative Claims by Minority Owners

Common-Law Partnerships

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Applications have not yet been submitted for Delaware, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wyoming CLE for this course. However, if you are interested in obtaining CLE for any of the listed states or have any additional credit questions please email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-352-9540.

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  • AR CLE 1.0
     
  • This course has been approved for 1.0 hours of CLE by the Arkansas CLE Board.
     
  • CA MCLE 1.0
     
  • Lorman Business Center, LLC. is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.0 CLE hours of participatory credit.
     
  • NM CLE 1.0
     
  • This program has been approved by the New Mexico Minimum Continuing Legal Education Board for 1.0 hours of credit.
     
  • NV CLE 1.0
     
  • This program has been approved by the Nevada Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.0 CLE hours.
     
  • NY CLE 1.0 including Areas of Professional Practice 1
     
  • This course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York Continuing Legal Education Board for up to a maximum of 1.0 credit hours in the area(s) of Areas of Professional Practice for 1.00 hour. Each hour may be counted only as satisfying one category of credit. Duplicate credit for the same hour of instruction is not permitted. This course qualifies for both established and newly admitted attorneys. Lorman Business Center, LLC. has a financial hardship guideline. Please contact customer service at 1.866.352.9539 for instructions on how to apply.
     
  • WA CLE 1.0
     
  • This program has been approved by the Washington State Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.0 hours of A/V credit under the Law & Legal Procedure category.
     
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Ladd Hirsch

Ladd Hirsch

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

  • Partner in the Litigation Section of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP’s Dallas office
  • Practice focuses on handling business divorce matters on behalf of both majority owners and substantial minority investors in private companies
  • Frequently speaks on this topic at CLE presentations and also to business owners and investors
  • Successfully tried oppression case for minority shareholder in 2009 securing $85 million dividend
  • Secured sizable arbitration award for purchaser of commercial shopping center to recover for seller’s failure to repair substantial property damage and successful pursuit of recovery in resulting seller’s bankruptcy filing
  • Negotiated and documented numerous confidential settlements on behalf of majority business owners purchasing the minority interest held by minority investors
  • Similarly negotiated and secured buyouts of favorable terms for numerous minority investors of their ownership interests in private companies
  • Frequently structure business divorce settlements in marital proceedings to arrange for division of marital estates involving ownership of private companies
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Product ID: 409505
Published 2021
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