The End of Days
“Review this agreement and provide me with your comments” is usually the first introduction that young business lawyers are given to the topic of reviewing… Read More »The End of Days
“Review this agreement and provide me with your comments” is usually the first introduction that young business lawyers are given to the topic of reviewing… Read More »The End of Days
Lawyers are avid fans of awards, so much so that they sometimes even pay to get them, which is a topic for another day. I… Read More »Introducing The Dumbies
Bob, Ted, Carol, and Alice own a company. They have a shareholder’s agreement. The only divorce mechanism is a right of first refusal (“ROFR”). Bob… Read More »Murray’s Rant About Rights of First Refusal
Spouses often both own shares in a corporation that operates a family business, sometimes because they are both active participants in the business, and sometimes… Read More »Family Law and Family Business
Here are some of the provisions which I have found lurking in purchase orders (a “PO”): 1. The P.O. replaces every provision in the vendor’s… Read More »Danger Lurks in Dark Places and Purchase Orders
Leo Tolstoy said, “happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Mary Karr wrote: “a dysfunctional family is any… Read More »More of Murray’s Musings on Family Business Succession
I have many thoughts about family business succession. Here are a few of them:
Banks financing a borrower operating from leased premises typically ask for a waiver from the borrower’s landlord of certain rights under the borrower’s lease. Landlords… Read More »Landlord Waivers
Let’s say that you represent a 40% shareholder in a corporation. You are reviewing a shareholder’s agreement which says that in certain circumstances (death, disability,… Read More »Yet Another Way for Business Lawyers to be Negligent
Here is a conversation that I had with lawyers from time to time. I would provide in a contract that interest would be payable at… Read More »A Few Interesting (Sort of) Things About Interest