*(Though Sometimes in Business, Maybe Not)
Friends don’t let friends do business with friends.
Among the key Business Court takeaways here at the blog, this maxim rings loud and
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Two business court rulings offer insights on trade secret pleadings, employment agreements, and credibility
By Jeff MacHarg and Camryn Rohr.
Maven Advantage, Inc. and Square One Storm Restoration, LLC are competing roofing businesses. Maven alleged that two employees (Couch and Daniels) stole Maven’s
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees, and Protecting it: a “Cap and Trade” Litigation Tale
In the complex world of “cap and trade” emissions regimes, acquiring credits to offset a company’s pollution portfolio requires decision makers to see the forest for the trees. And sometimes
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Data Breach 101: a Curriculum Spoiler for NC College Students
A letter or three per year, alerting of a data breach at a company with which you’ve interacted, is now par for the course. Hackers, and the companies whose data
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A Recipe for Rule 12(b) Failure: Unsavory Complexity, a Pinch of Confusion, and an Overflowing Cup of Acronyms
It turns out there is something more difficult than the financing and development of a luxury retirement community, the long life of which spanned from its initial municipal approval in
Continue Reading A Recipe for Rule 12(b) Failure: Unsavory Complexity, a Pinch of Confusion, and an Overflowing Cup of AcronymsWhen “Divorcing” Physicians Scuffle Over Contractual Plans to Honor Patient Choice, do they Render Medical Service?
The Palmetto Medical Group had a “messy divorce.”
Palmetto’s three physicians had settled into “mutual distrust” and got a good distance down the road toward separation by negotiating a Practice
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When Philip Harvey died in December 2021 he owned more than 400 shares of common capital stock in PHE, Inc., a Hillsborough, North Carolina-based business that sells sexual wellness
Continue Reading Sex Toy Titan Sues Estate of Founder to Compel Redemption of Shares Whose Value May Exceed $60 MillionMinority Shareholders can “Follow the Money” Linked To Alleged Diversions by Majority for Phantom Salaries and Benefits
The minority shareholders of a podiatry practice felt like they had been kicked around by the alleged financial misadventures of two colleagues who together controlled an 80 percent interest. A
Continue Reading Minority Shareholders can “Follow the Money” Linked To Alleged Diversions by Majority for Phantom Salaries and Benefits“As Is” Purchases of Commercial Property May Come with Limited Remedial Tools to Avoid Closing, Business Court Confirms
As failed commercial property deals go, the one at the heart of Miriam Equities, LLC v. LB-UBS-2007-C2 Millstream Road LLC, 2022 NCBC 3, was not outside the norm
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When Judging Investment Options by the Numbers, Second Follows First, and Nothing Else
Business Court Confirms a Right
To Invest in a “Second” Project
Extends No Further
At Fifth and Church streets in uptown Charlotte, a group of investors opened the aptly named
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