You and your partner built the company as equals. Fifty-fifty feltfair at the start. It does not feel fair now. One of you wants to cash out and the other wants to keep building. Or you cannot agree on payroll,
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The Chicago Business Litigation Lawyer Blog, published by Lubin Austermuehle, P.C., focuses on legal issues related to business and commercial litigation. It covers topics such as internal business disputes including conflicts among partners, directors, and family-owned businesses, as well as external disputes involving breach of contract, fraud, and enforcement of business agreements. The blog addresses strategies for resolving complex commercial conflicts, fiduciary duties, non-compete agreements, and the impact of litigation on business operations. It also discusses practical approaches to settlements, ethical considerations in litigation, and specialized areas like forensic accounting in business disputes.
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The complaint arrives styled as a class action, and the number at the bottom of the page is built to frighten you. A single fee, a single line in a form contract, or a single advertisement, multiplied across every customer…
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You own half of a company you helped build, and the other owner has turned on you. The distributions stopped, but the salary he pays himself did not. You asked to see…
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By Peter S. Lubin and James V. DiTommaso
A process server hands your company a class action complaint late on a Friday. By Monday you are reading a theory that turns one disputed
charge or one form document into a…
Deadlocked With Your Co-Owner? How Illinois Resolves a 50/50 Business Divorce
You and your partner built this together, fifty-fifty, on a handshake and a shared idea of where the company was going. The split worked until it didn’t. Now you disagree about everything that matters, the strategy, the money, whether to…
What Your Business Partner Owes You Under Illinois Law, and What Happens When He Breaks That Duty
Your partner started a second company. You learned about it from a customer, not from him, and now you notice that the easy jobs still come to your shared business while the lucrative ones quietly go to his. He says…
Illinois Minority Owners: How to Force a Company to Open Its Books
You asked a simple question. Where did the money go? You own a piece of the company, the profits that used to reach you have thinned, and you want to see the financials that would explain why. The controlling owner’s…
When the Wrong Done to Your Company Is Yours to Fix: Illinois Derivative Lawsuits Explained
You find it by accident. A vendor mentions a company you have never heard of, and a week of digging shows that your co-owner has been routing the business’s best work through a second entity he owns alone. Or the…
Frozen Out of Your Illinois LLC? What the LLC Act Lets a Minority Member Do
You own thirty percent of the company, and for the first ten years that felt like a partnership. Then the managing member stopped returning your calls. The distributions shrank and then stopped, though the company is plainly doing well. You…
Being Bought Out of Your Illinois Company? Why the “Fair Value” of Your Shares Is Higher Than the Offer
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