Disputes between business owners, shareholders and business partners can be extremely contentious due to the often personal nature of the relationship. When friends go into business together, they assume that they will be able to amicably resolve any disputes that arise. Frequently, one partner will be the financial investor in a business, project, or joint venture, and the other partner will be managing the day by day operations of the business. Expeditious judicial intervention is often needed where one partner shuts the other out of the daily operations or removes the other from access to bank accounts.
Even where the parties have a shareholder agreement or a partnership agreement, disputes arise where one or more parties breaches that agreement. Sometimes taking legal action is necessary in order to enforce the terms of the contract they agreed upon or to separate business interests.
We represent business clients in suits against their partners, suits against their companies, and we defend suits brought by shareholders and partners.