Program Details
2026-09-24 13:00:00
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Course Overview
2026-09-24 13:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm ESTThis session examines what a petitioner must prove to satisfy the ‘not reasonably practicable’ standard, how that burden differs from showing interpersonal conflict alone, and how the threshold varies across New York, Delaware, Minnesota, and New Jersey.
Peter A. Mahler
Franklin C. McRoberts
Kurt M. Heyman 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm ESTThis session surveys the landmark appellate rulings of 2025 and 2026 on structural deadlock, anti-dissolution waivers, and equitable dissolution, including the 2025 New York appellate split over whether a waiver can defeat a dissolution petition.
Peter A. MahlerFranklin C. McRobertsKurt M. Heyman 2:10 pm - 2:40 pm ESTThis session identifies the specific evidentiary facts courts require beyond the parties’ disagreement, explains how a 50/50 structure versus odd-number majority rule affects whether deadlock is cognizable, and shows how to marshal the record courts scrutinize.
Peter A. MahlerFranklin C. McRobertsKurt M. Heyman 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm ESTThis session reviews the operating agreement drafting failures that routinely generate deadlock litigation and the mechanisms that reduce or eliminate exposure to judicial dissolution, followed by questions and takeaways.
Peter A. MahlerFranklin C. McRobertsKurt M. HeymanPeter A. Mahler is a litigator at Farrell Fritz, P.C. whose practice centers on business divorce, meaning dissolution and other disputes among co-owners of closely held entities such as limited liability companies, corporations, and partnerships. He represents both control and non-control owners, frequently in family-owned businesses, and often advises owners before litigation begins on their rights and on structuring an amicable separation through buy-out, sale, or division of business assets. He brings decades of experience prosecuting and defending business divorce cases at trial and appellate levels and in mediation and arbitration proceedings, and he works closely with appraisers in valuation contests such as elective buyouts in dissolution proceedings and dissenting shareholder appraisals following cash-out mergers.
Franklin C. McRoberts is a partner at Farrell Fritz, P.C. who concentrates on litigated disputes between the owners of closely held businesses, including partnership, corporation, and LLC derivative suits, dissolutions, breakups, buyouts, cash-out mergers, and valuations. Frank also represents schools, businesses, and real property owners in insurance coverage litigation involving reservations of rights, disclaimers, denials of defense or indemnity, rescissions, bad faith, and errors and omissions, and his practice extends to general contract disputes, business torts, restrictive covenants, and real estate transaction disputes.
Kurt M. Heyman is a partner at Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP whose practice focuses on corporate and commercial litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the nation’s premiere forum for the resolution of corporate governance disputes. Representing both public and private companies and their owners and managers, Kurt has developed a niche practice in business divorce cases involving the separation of owners of privately held business entities and has litigated through trial some of the biggest and most groundbreaking cases in the area. He has also successfully litigated numerous stockholder class and derivative actions, appearing for stockholders as well as for directors and officers, and has argued a string of precedent-setting insurance coverage cases before the Delaware Supreme Court.
Peter A. Mahler is a litigator at Farrell Fritz, P.C. whose practice centers on business divorce, meaning dissolution and other disputes among co-owners of closely held entities such as limited liability companies, corporations, and partnerships. He represents both control and non-control owners, frequently in family-owned businesses, and often advises owners before litigation begins on their rights and on structuring an amicable separation through buy-out, sale, or division of business assets. He brings decades of experience prosecuting and defending business divorce cases at trial and appellate levels and in mediation and arbitration proceedings, and he works closely with appraisers in valuation contests such as elective buyouts in dissolution proceedings and dissenting shareholder appraisals following cash-out mergers.
Franklin C. McRoberts is a partner at Farrell Fritz, P.C. who concentrates on litigated disputes between the owners of closely held businesses, including partnership, corporation, and LLC derivative suits, dissolutions, breakups, buyouts, cash-out mergers, and valuations. Frank also represents schools, businesses, and real property owners in insurance coverage litigation involving reservations of rights, disclaimers, denials of defense or indemnity, rescissions, bad faith, and errors and omissions, and his practice extends to general contract disputes, business torts, restrictive covenants, and real estate transaction disputes.
Kurt M. Heyman is a partner at Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP whose practice focuses on corporate and commercial litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the nation’s premiere forum for the resolution of corporate governance disputes. Representing both public and private companies and their owners and managers, Kurt has developed a niche practice in business divorce cases involving the separation of owners of privately held business entities and has litigated through trial some of the biggest and most groundbreaking cases in the area. He has also successfully litigated numerous stockholder class and derivative actions, appearing for stockholders as well as for directors and officers, and has argued a string of precedent-setting insurance coverage cases before the Delaware Supreme Court.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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