Corporate Governance and Partnerships
Buck Keenan offers comprehensive assistance in navigating corporate governance, securities and partnership disputes. With a deep understanding of complex corporate structures and fiduciary duties, our team provides strategic counsel to address conflicts effectively. Whether resolving disagreements among stakeholders, enforcing partnership agreements, resolving shareholder conflicts or navigating compliance issues, we tailor our approach to meet the unique needs of each client. Leveraging our expertise in negotiation, mediation, and litigation, we strive to achieve the best possible outcomes that protect our clients’ interests and promote long-term stability within their organizations.
At Buck Keenan, we routinely manage securities litigation and shareholder rights disputes. Our experienced team handles cases in state courts, federal courts, and arbitrations, representing clients from all industrial sectors. We litigate matters of securities fraud, shareholder oppression, breach of fiduciary duty, and corporate governance disputes.
Our team of experienced lawyers represents a diverse range of clients, including corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, public and privately held companies, associations, non-profit organizations, boards of directors, general and limited partners, managing members, as well as individual officers and directors, owners, partners, members, and shareholders. We provide strategic representation and we are able to find solutions outside the courtroom because we are fully prepared to advocate for our clients in the courtroom when necessary.
We have a proven track record of success in handling disputes related to mergers and acquisitions, dissolution of partnerships, valuation, distribution, divestiture, takeover battles, proxy contents, and other matters involving change of control. Our team is skilled at conducting thorough internal investigations into alleged wrongdoing within organizations, whether in response to regulatory enforcement actions or conflicts between business partners.
Representative Cases
- Represented founder and shareholder of Utah based educational technology company in shareholder oppression, fraud and breach of duties lawsuit. The lawsuit settled during trial for in excess of $10 million.
- Multimillion-dollar settlement and buyout for minority shareholder of family company in claims against majority shareholder and company directors for shareholder oppression and breach of fiduciary duty.
- Multimillion-dollar settlement for recovery of president’s 40 percent share of family company for remaining shareholders based on president’s breach of fiduciary duty and fraud.
- Arbitration award of $10,000,000 in favor of founder and majority shareholder of oil field services company against minority shareholders for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of company agreement.
- Multimillion-dollar settlement and buyout for minority shareholder in claims against majority shareholder and company directors for shareholder oppression and breach of fiduciary duty.
- Obtained $10 million settlement on behalf of general contractor in competing multimillion-dollar claims between client and owner concerning construction of a chemical plant.
- Represented shareholder/founder of oil and gas company in the defense of oppression and breach of fiduciary duty claims in Colorado U.S. District Court resulting in favorable settlement.
- Represented clients in breach of tag-a-long agreement ancillary to sale of securities broker dealer business. Obtained $6.7 million arbitration award.