On September 5, 2017, Judge Lorna G. Schofield of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York certified a class of Deutsche Bank employees who had …
In prior posts, this Blog has written about the financial exploitation and abuse of vulnerable adults. (Here, here and here.) Late last month, CNBC ran a story about this growing …
Implicit in every contract is a covenant of good faith and fair dealing. New York Univ. v. Continental Ins. Co., 87 N.Y.2d 308, 318 (1995). “The covenant is breached where …
Previously, this Blog considered the rules for judicial dissolution of a limited liability company (“LLC”). Here. A brief reminder follows below. Under Section 702 of New York’s Limited Liability Company …
The hits keep coming for money center banks, such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and others, as three U.S. pension funds have filed a class action lawsuit over alleged …
The foundation of virtually every business and commercial transaction is a contract. Indeed, it is hard to imagine any transaction for the purchase or sale of goods, the merger or …
As a general matter, when parties negotiate an agreement in a clear and unambiguous document, their writing will be enforced according to its terms. Evidence outside the four corners of …
As this Blog has noted in a previous post (here), to state a retaliation claim, both the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) and the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer …
Although courts will pierce the corporate veil “to prevent fraud or achieve equity,” Morris v. N.Y. State Department of Taxation & Finance, 82 N.Y.2d 135, 140 (1993) (quoting Int’l Aircraft …
On July 13, 2017, Charlotte-based LPL Financial, the largest retail investment advisory firm and independent broker-dealer in the United States, announced that it planned to provide its advisers with a …
