Business & Ownership Disputes
Contract and ownership disputes, with the company's operations and your objectives kept in view.
Business & Ownership Disputes
Contract and ownership disputes, with the company's operations and your objectives kept in view.
Business & Ownership Disputes
Contract and ownership disputes, with the company's operations and your objectives kept in view.
The dispute is between owners. Its effects reach everyone.
Your business partner has stopped approving payments. Payroll is approaching, a lender wants answers, and neither of you agrees on who can act for the company.
The ownership agreement matters. So do the bank authority, past decisions, financial records, and commitments already made to other people. We bring those facts together to assess your position and the steps available to protect it.
The objective may be continued operation, payment, a negotiated exit, or a court decision. We work from that objective so each legal step serves something you need to achieve.
The dispute is between owners. Its effects reach everyone.
Your business partner has stopped approving payments. Payroll is approaching, a lender wants answers, and neither of you agrees on who can act for the company.
The ownership agreement matters. So do the bank authority, past decisions, financial records, and commitments already made to other people. We bring those facts together to assess your position and the steps available to protect it.
The objective may be continued operation, payment, a negotiated exit, or a court decision. We work from that objective so each legal step serves something you need to achieve.
The dispute is between owners. Its effects reach everyone.
Your business partner has stopped approving payments. Payroll is approaching, a lender wants answers, and neither of you agrees on who can act for the company.
The ownership agreement matters. So do the bank authority, past decisions, financial records, and commitments already made to other people. We bring those facts together to assess your position and the steps available to protect it.
The objective may be continued operation, payment, a negotiated exit, or a court decision. We work from that objective so each legal step serves something you need to achieve.
Where we can help
Where we can help
Where we can help
Assess performance, payment, termination, indemnity, and disputed promises under customer, supplier, service, and acquisition agreements. Prepare demands and responses grounded in the contract and the record of what happened.
Assess performance, payment, termination, indemnity, and disputed promises under customer, supplier, service, and acquisition agreements. Prepare demands and responses grounded in the contract and the record of what happened.
Assess performance, payment, termination, indemnity, and disputed promises under customer, supplier, service, and acquisition agreements. Prepare demands and responses grounded in the contract and the record of what happened.
Review ownership rights, voting, distributions, buyouts, transfers, and competing interpretations of the governing documents. Identify which decisions are blocked and what a workable separation would require.
Review ownership rights, voting, distributions, buyouts, transfers, and competing interpretations of the governing documents. Identify which decisions are blocked and what a workable separation would require.
Review ownership rights, voting, distributions, buyouts, transfers, and competing interpretations of the governing documents. Identify which decisions are blocked and what a workable separation would require.
Examine disputed transactions, use of company funds, conflicts of interest, and allegations that an owner or manager diverted an opportunity. Organize financial and decision records into an account that can be tested.
Examine disputed transactions, use of company funds, conflicts of interest, and allegations that an owner or manager diverted an opportunity. Organize financial and decision records into an account that can be tested.
Examine disputed transactions, use of company funds, conflicts of interest, and allegations that an owner or manager diverted an opportunity. Organize financial and decision records into an account that can be tested.
Assess rights to company records and prepare appropriate requests or responses. Identify the documents needed to understand ownership, spending, and disputed decisions.
Assess rights to company records and prepare appropriate requests or responses. Identify the documents needed to understand ownership, spending, and disputed decisions.
Assess rights to company records and prepare appropriate requests or responses. Identify the documents needed to understand ownership, spending, and disputed decisions.
Develop demands, pleadings, discovery requests and responses, witness preparation, and settlement positions for the agreed matter. Assess court or arbitration options and whether interim relief needs attention.
Develop demands, pleadings, discovery requests and responses, witness preparation, and settlement positions for the agreed matter. Assess court or arbitration options and whether interim relief needs attention.
Develop demands, pleadings, discovery requests and responses, witness preparation, and settlement positions for the agreed matter. Assess court or arbitration options and whether interim relief needs attention.
Negotiate and document payment, releases, ownership transfers, confidentiality, and continuing obligations. Connect the resolution to governance or contract changes that deserve a separate review.
Negotiate and document payment, releases, ownership transfers, confidentiality, and continuing obligations. Connect the resolution to governance or contract changes that deserve a separate review.
Negotiate and document payment, releases, ownership transfers, confidentiality, and continuing obligations. Connect the resolution to governance or contract changes that deserve a separate review.
Decide with the facts in front of you.
We start with the agreements, the sequence of events, and what you need to protect. Then we identify disputed facts, available evidence, immediate dates, and the practical consequences of each route.
Your plan should account for the amount at issue, the strength of the position, the cost of pursuing it, and the effect on operations. A demand for money may also involve a customer relationship. An owner's exit may affect financing or authority to sign.
Depending on the engagement, the work may include a written assessment, evidence chronology, demand or response, pleadings, settlement papers, or an agreed phase of litigation. We define that work and its fixed fee before beginning.
Decide with the facts in front of you.
We start with the agreements, the sequence of events, and what you need to protect. Then we identify disputed facts, available evidence, immediate dates, and the practical consequences of each route.
Your plan should account for the amount at issue, the strength of the position, the cost of pursuing it, and the effect on operations. A demand for money may also involve a customer relationship. An owner's exit may affect financing or authority to sign.
Depending on the engagement, the work may include a written assessment, evidence chronology, demand or response, pleadings, settlement papers, or an agreed phase of litigation. We define that work and its fixed fee before beginning.
Decide with the facts in front of you.
We start with the agreements, the sequence of events, and what you need to protect. Then we identify disputed facts, available evidence, immediate dates, and the practical consequences of each route.
Your plan should account for the amount at issue, the strength of the position, the cost of pursuing it, and the effect on operations. A demand for money may also involve a customer relationship. An owner's exit may affect financing or authority to sign.
Depending on the engagement, the work may include a written assessment, evidence chronology, demand or response, pleadings, settlement papers, or an agreed phase of litigation. We define that work and its fixed fee before beginning.
Related practices
Related practices
Related practices
FAQ
FAQ
FAQ
No. Negotiation or mediation may offer a useful route, depending on the dispute and the parties. California courts describe mediation, settlement conferences, neutral evaluation, and arbitration as different forms of dispute resolution. We assess the available process alongside your agreements and objectives. California Courts: types of dispute resolution.
Tell us whom you want represented. Ownership documents are useful background. A company's position and an owner's position may differ. Identifying the party seeking counsel is part of assessing the matter before an engagement.
Start with a short account of the dispute and any stated response date. Useful background includes the demand or complaint, relevant agreements and amendments, and a short chronology. For ownership disputes, governing documents, ownership records, and the decisions being challenged help establish the position. Tell us whether other lawyers or insurers are already involved.
Identify the event and date when you submit the matter. An upcoming transfer, termination, hearing, or interruption to operations may affect the options. We assess the situation and whether we can undertake the required work before confirming representation.
Individual matters are always fixed fee. The engagement defines the work or phase included. If further proceedings or additional work become necessary, we agree on that scope and fee before undertaking it.
Your introduction to Cove
Start with a conversation about what you need.
If you decide to move forward, we’ll agree on the work and its fixed fee before we begin.
Have a particular matter in mind? Tell us about it.
Share what you’re working through or working toward.
Send relevant documents ahead of time so we can come prepared.
Your introduction to Cove
Start with a conversation about what you need.
If you decide to move forward, we’ll agree on the work and its fixed fee before we begin.
Have a particular matter in mind? Tell us about it.
Share what you’re working through or working toward.
Send relevant documents ahead of time so we can come prepared.
Your introduction to Cove
Start with a conversation about what you need.
If you decide to move forward, we’ll agree on the work and its fixed fee before we begin.
Have a particular matter in mind? Tell us about it.
Share what you’re working through or working toward.
Send relevant documents ahead of time so we can come prepared.