New York Appraisal Rights

Whether communications or work product by a third party destroy the privilege enjoyed between attorney and client is a hotly contested issue in litigation, and appraisal is no exception. For instance, the New York Appellate Division recently held that a valuation report created by a third-party consulting firm to appraise the plaintiff’s stock in the

Valuation litigation plays out in a number of different business contexts. Readers of this blog will be well familiar with one of them: appraisal rights (a/k/a/ dissenters rights) actions brought when a public company is being acquired by another entity. But valuation disputes requiring the determination of fair value come up in many other contexts

As we have noted repeatedly, appraisal is a shareholder-protective remedy.  While much of the academic and media commentary on appraisal focuses on Delaware and appraisal in the context of large public mergers, appraisal exists beyond Delaware, and in contexts far removed from headline making mergers. For example, in New York, appraisal rights are afforded to

The New York Law Journal recently ran an article, Looking Beyond Delaware: Exercising Shareholder Appraisal Rights in N.Y. [via ALM], which analyzes the New York appraisal statute and observes that while appraisal litigation has remained underutilized outside of Delaware, it is possible that with the uptick in Delaware appraisal New York will see more appraisal