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Business Litigation
Separating owners and valuing the exit when a partnership has run its course.
A “business divorce” is the separation of company owners who can no longer work together. Done well, it preserves the value of the business and lets it keep operating. Done poorly, it can destroy what everyone built. Our goal is a clean exit at the right number.
The best business divorces are governed by a buy-sell agreement signed in good times — setting the price method, the triggering events, and the payment terms in advance. Where one exists, we enforce it; where one does not, we build the case for a fair value.
Florida's LLC and corporation statutes (Chapters 605 and 607) allow judicial dissolution in cases of deadlock or oppression. Even when actually dissolving the company is not the goal, the threat of dissolution is often the leverage that produces a fair buyout.
The goal is a clean exit at the right number — with the business still standing.
The legal separation or buyout of co-owners of a company who can no longer continue together.
By a buy-sell agreement if one exists, or through negotiation and valuation experts where it does not.
Sometimes — through a buy-sell agreement, an oppression claim, or a dissolution proceeding used as leverage toward a buyout.
Florida's default LLC and corporate statutes govern, and we build the valuation and dissolution case from there.
