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Partnership, Shareholder & LLC Disputes

When the people who built a company together can no longer agree on what happens next.

What this is.

Disputes between owners, partners, and LLC members are some of the most difficult cases in litigation — not because the law is complicated, but because the stakes are personal. Freeze-outs, breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of company funds, minority owner oppression, deadlock between equal partners — these cases combine legal complexity with the kind of personal history that makes resolution hard and litigation expensive. Kevin handles these cases from both the offensive and defensive posture — representing minority owners who have been frozen out, majority owners protecting the business from a departing partner, and companies in the middle of a governance dispute that is threatening operations.

Who Kevin represents.

  • Minority owners and LLC members facing oppression or freeze-out
  • Majority owners responding to claims from departing partners
  • Partners in dispute over company direction, valuation, or management
  • Shareholders in closely held corporations with governance disputes
  • Companies facing internally destabilizing ownership conflicts

What Kevin brings.

Having managed M&A due diligence, shareholder litigation risk, and corporate governance for a publicly traded company, Kevin understands how ownership disputes look from the inside of a company and from the perspective of outside counsel. He has been both. That matters when the dispute is about what the company is worth, who controls it, and what the documents actually say.