When shareholders at privately-held firms fight, legal advisors must quickly assess how courts will treat each side of the shareholder dispute. Whether a corporate attorney advising arguing clients before litigation has erupted or a litigator planning the initial stages of a trial, understanding legal trends is crucial to provide the best advice. Our faculty - one a corporate attorney and the other a litigator - will address both the legal theory and some practical tactics in managing shareholder disputes at closely-held companies. Order today!

1. Understanding Situations that can Trigger a War Among Shareholders, such as Significant Corporate Changes or Employment Disputes
2. Particular Facts in Prior Court Cases that Exposed Either the Controlling or Non-Controlling Shareholder to Liability
3. General Trends in State Courts in the Shifting Responsibility of Controlling Shareholders
4. Tactics for Untangling Decades of Overlapping Case Law Between Closely-Held Companies and the Better Known, but far less Relevant, Cases Involving Public Companies
5. Ancillary Legal Theories that Parties can use to Gain the Upper Hand in Shareholder Disputes, such as Securities Laws Claims, Demands for Books and Records, and Personal Claims Against Officers and Directors
6. Practical Observations About How Judges Apply Shareholder Law Theory
7. Practical Courtroom Tactics in Managing the Inevitable Procedural or Ancillary Legal Skirmishes that Arise When Litigating Shareholder Disputes
8. How Courts Treat Owners of Limited Liability Companies Versus Those of Corporations

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Session Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Eastern
Presenters: Craig McCrohon and Frederic A. Mendelsohn

1. Understanding Situations that can Trigger a War Among Shareholders, such as Significant Corporate Changes or Employment Disputes
2. Particular Facts in Prior Court Cases that Exposed Either the Controlling or Non-Controlling Shareholder to Liability
3. General Trends in State Courts in the Shifting Responsibility of Controlling Shareholders
4. Tactics for Untangling Decades of Overlapping Case Law Between Closely-Held Companies and the Better Known, but far less Relevant, Cases Involving Public Companies
5. Ancillary Legal Theories that Parties can use to Gain the Upper Hand in Shareholder Disputes, such as Securities Laws Claims, Demands for Books and Records, and Personal Claims Against Officers and Directors
6. Practical Observations About How Judges Apply Shareholder Law Theory
7. Practical Courtroom Tactics in Managing the Inevitable Procedural or Ancillary Legal Skirmishes that Arise When Litigating Shareholder Disputes
8. How Courts Treat Owners of Limited Liability Companies Versus Those of Corporations

CRAIG MCCROHON is a partner at the law firm of Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C., where he specializes in corporate, securities, and mergers and acquisitions law. He advises companies and boards of directors regarding domestic and international corporate transactions, director and officer liability, corporate finance and financial institution regulatory matters. Mr. McCrohon is a graduate of Harvard University, earned his joint law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School of Business and was a graduate student in law and economics at the London School of Economics. He worked with the legal staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, is listed in Who's Who in American Law, was named by the Chicago Lawyer as one of the "40 Under 40 Outstanding Illinois Attorneys," and is listed as one of the "Leading Lawyers in Illinois" for corporate and technology transactions, a listing that recognizes the top five percent of attorneys as selected by their peers.

FREDERIC A. MENDELSOHN is a partner at the law firm of Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C., where he specializes in complex commercial litigation and dispute resolution, labor and employment law, market channel matters involving dealers, distributors and sales representatives, and the general representation of middle market business. Mr. Mendelsohn has been involved in a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters, from shareholder and other business ownership and governance disputes to complex patent and international customs litigation, anti-trust cases, and professional malpractice litigation. He regularly represents clients in matters involving financial transactions, intellectual property matters, including the protection and enforcement of proprietary business information, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and related covenants-not-to-compete, licensing agreements and protective agreements. He regularly appears before and tries cases in courts and other forums across the country and has practiced before many federal and state courts. Mr. Mendelsohn also is an adjunct faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and regularly speaks and writes on legal topics for various trade groups and magazines. He earned his B.A. degree, cum laude, from Brandeis University, his J.D. degree from Marquette University and his LL.M. degree from John Marshall Law School. Prior to private practice, Mr. Mendelsohn served as an Assistant State's Attorney in the Financial and Government Fraud Task Force of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.

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