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Lumber Exec’s Diversion of Profits to Company Owned by Son Supports Minority Shareholders’ Breach of Fiduciary Duty and Shareholder Oppression Claims – IL 2nd Dist.

Roberts v. Zimmerman, et al., 2021 IL App (2d) 191088-U provides a useful primer on the pleadings and evidence required to sustain a breach of fiduciary duty and shareholder oppression claim against a corporate officer and the contours of the business judgment rule defense to those claims. The case involved three separate but related lumber …

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Debtor’s Use of LLC As ‘Personal Piggy Bank’ Leads to Turnover and Charging Orders

Golfwood Square, LLC v. O’Malley, 2018 IL App(1st) 172220-U, examines the interplay between a charging order and a third party citation to discover assets turnover order against an LLC member debtor.  The plaintiff in Golfwood engaged in a years’ long effort to unspool a judgment debtor’s multi-tiered business entity arrangement in the hopes of collecting a …

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