In recent years, the headlines have tracked the news of high-profile breakups among business partners in private companies. These business partner fallouts include:

A business and legal resource for majority owners and substantial minority investors in private companies and for spouses and their advisors in marital divorce proceedings that involve complex business ownership and property issues
Ladd Hirsch is a solution-oriented trial attorney with more than 30 years of experience representing companies and high net worth business clients in complex litigation cases and arbitration matters. Ladd has focused a significant portion of his practice on handling business divorce disputes and related litigation for majority owners and minority investors in substantial private Texas companies. In these matters, Ladd files and defends claims against fiduciaries (officers, directors, managers, general partners and trustees), including claims for breach of fiduciary duty, breach of the entity governance documents and shareholder derivative claims. In his practice, he regularly works with family law attorneys and their clients to assist them with a wide variety of business and complex property issues that arise in family law proceedings.
In recent years, the headlines have tracked the news of high-profile breakups among business partners in private companies. These business partner fallouts include:
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