Representative Business Divorce Cases:
- Successfully preserve and recover funds for advertising agency partner, upon discovery of embezzlement by minority partner and major customer lawsuit.
- Recovery of funds by minority partner, against majority, after majority partner made distributions excluding client.
- Recovery of over $1 million for two partners terminated by majority partners in violation of company agreements.
- Represented a victim of the Bernie Madoff scandal in a series of lawsuits resulting in agreements that ultimately returned all of the client’s assets.
- Ensured the survival of a health care facility facing large operational loss by consulting on operational strategies, financing and defending multiple lawsuits.
- Helped screenwriter/director obtain bridge financing and navigate complex legal requirements, resulting in the production of an award-winning independent film.
- Advised a business partner who had his ownership interest seized by his former partners, resulting in a settlement of more than $1.2 million.
- Negotiated a payout of $1.3 million by exercising a shareholder’s governance rights following oppression by majority partner.
- Negotiated a $2 million settlement for two partners, who together owned 50% of a partnership involved in real estate development and had been frozen out by their partners.
- Obtained $6 million settlement on eve of trial, against private equity firm who had purchased client’s business in exchange for stock.
Representative Lawsuits and Transactions:
- Minnesota Supreme Court victory in ballot question of Minneapolis City Charter.
- Preserved $187 million for North Dakota taxpayers on a Constitutional claim in District Court on summary judgment, reversed on appeal (Cert denied by U.S. Supreme Court).
- Workout of surgical center temporarily shut down by COVID.
- Recovered more than $750,000 for a North Dakota mineral owner from an oil company who had shorted him on royalty payments for years.
- Successfully negotiated a contract dispute on behalf of a former executive denied payment by a large pharmaceutical company.
- Representing mineral rights owners in oil drainage and related claims against the Federal government.
- Led negotiations on behalf of a Major League Baseball team resulting in the most lucrative radio rights contract in Minnesota sports.
- Successfully defended a client against claims of a former partner seeking $12 million.
- Assisted a trade group in forming a business alliance to lobby and defeat a proposed special tax to fund a professional sports stadium.
- Worked through a series of lawsuits and agreements enabling the business to survive by obtaining an 80% discount on an operating loan.
- Led defense and workout of company sued by vendors after fraud by previous owner.
- Multiple successes both seeking and resisting injunctions and temporary restraining orders.
- Obtained Jury Verdict of $600,000, for fraud committed by vendor, on behalf of logistics company.
- Court trial in Court of Federal Claims for Breach of Trustee’s duty to manage clients’ mineral rights (Decision pending)
- Reached confidential defense settlement on behalf of wrongfully-accused professional athlete
