Shareholder & Partnership Disputes
Owner disputes are the firm’s home terrain: it drafts the governing documents, counsels the fiduciaries, and litigates the conflicts — which means it enters every dispute already knowing where these agreements bend and where they break. The practice covers fiduciary duty claims, contested buyouts, capital contribution disputes, deadlock, authority and voting conflicts, and equity ownership controversies in closely held companies, prosecuted or defended under the Texas Business Organizations Code, and resolved — where resolution serves the client — through negotiated equity unwinds documented to end the matter permanently.
Services
SIX ITEMS- LLC member, manager, and partnership dispute litigation
- Fiduciary duty claims — prosecution and defense
- Contested buyouts and capital contribution disputes
- Deadlock, authority, voting-rights, and governance conflicts
- Books-and-records demands and information rights
- Negotiated equity unwinds and settlement documentation
Representative Experience
THREE MATTERSLead counsel in partnership/member disputes and corporate governance conflicts involving equity ownership controversies.
Counsel to LLC members and managers in contested buyouts, capital contribution disputes, and fiduciary duty claims.
Drafted settlement agreements and negotiated equity unwind arrangements resolving owner conflicts.
Representative matters. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Process
FOUR STEPSGoverning-document read
The operating or partnership agreement decides half the case before it starts.
Leverage build
Information rights, fiduciary positions, and the economic pressure points.
Prosecution or defense
Litigated only as far as the exit requires.
The unwind
Because most owner disputes end in separation, documented so it holds.
FAQs
THREE QUESTIONSMy partner is freezing me out. What can I do?
Texas gives minority owners real tools — information rights, fiduciary claims, and whatever the agreement adds. The sequence matters; the document read comes first.
Can I be forced out of my own company?
Only as the agreement or a court allows — which is why the first question is always what you signed, and the second is what conduct has occurred since.
Do these cases actually go to trial?
A minority. Most resolve in a negotiated separation once leverage is established — and the settlement documents are where the firm’s transactional practice pays for itself.