Sentences with phrase «into breaches of fiduciary duties»

Not exact matches

STEVENSON, Md. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The securities litigation law firm of Brower Piven, A Professional Corporation, has commenced an investigation into possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of state law by the Board of Directors of DCT Industrial Trust Inc. (NYSE: DCT)(«DCT Industrial» or the «Company») relating to the proposed buyout of DCT Industrial by Prologis, Inc..

Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. announces that it is investigating potential legal claims against the board of directors of Analogic Corporation («Analogic» or the «Company»)(NASDAQ GS: ALOG) regarding possible breaches of fiduciary duties and other violations of law related to the Company's entry into an agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Altaris Capital Partners, LLC («Altaris») in a transaction valued at approximately $ 1.1 billion.

Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public, last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual «investigation» into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of «insubordination» and «breach of fiduciary duty,» which then became the grounds for their termination on Monday, March 1st.»

The case involved allegations that of shams agreements, allegedly entered into to defraud HMRC, along with allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and exclusion from the running of the business.

Affirming, the First District dove deep into the nature and reach of the breach of fiduciary duty, consumer fraud, and conversion torts under Illinois law.

In Dowd, the Court stated that a lawyer's conduct is a breach of fiduciary duty when, before the lawyer departs, he «secretly attempt [s] to lure firm clients (even those that the partner has brought into the firm and personally represented) to the new association, l [ies] to the clients about their rights with respect to their choice of counsel and abandon [s] the firm on short notice.»

In Icahn Partners LP v. Lions Gate Entertainment Corp, 2011 BCCA 228, Madame Justice Newbury commented on the difficulty that the examples in BCE present: «Whether the Court thereby intended to signal that derivative actions (for breach of fiduciary duty) and oppression claims should in its view be collapsed into one category, despite their different treatment in Canadian corporate legislation, remains to be seen.»

Its core work involves breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty, restitution, misrepresentation and transactions entered into at an undervalue in order to put assets beyond the reach of creditors.

As we first reported last month, Mike Rothenberg, the beleaguered founder of the San Francisco - based venture firm Rothenberg Ventures, has been involved in an ongoing SEC inquiry into possibly deceptive financial practices within his firm that include wire fraud, bank fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and retaliation against a lower - level employee who was fired and allegedly threatened with a lawsuit after bringing these allegations to the SEC.

The plaintiffs allege that the real estate professionals breached their fiduciary duty by failing to open escrow, failing to deposit the purchasers» deposit into escrow, failing to notify the seller that timing was critical because the transaction was part of a Section 1031 exchange transaction, failing to identify alternate properties, and failing to use correct forms.

79 DOS 99 Matter of DOS v. Pagano - disclosure of agency relationships; failure to appear at hearing; proper business practices; unauthorized practice of law; unearned commissions; vicarious liability; fraudulent practice; jurisdiction; ex parte hearing may proceed upon proof of proper service; DOS has jurisdiction after expiration of respondents» licenses as acts of misconduct occurred and the proceedings were commenced while the respondents were licensed; licensee fails to timely provide seller client with agency disclosure form prior to entering into listing agreement and fails to timely provide agency disclosure form to buyer upon first substantive contact; broker fails to make it clear for which party he is acting; broker violates 19 NYCRR 175.24 by using exclusive right to sell listing agreement without mandatory definitions of «exclusive right to sell» and «exclusive agency»; broker breaches fiduciary duties to seller clients by misleading them as to buyer's ability to financially consummate the transaction; broker breaches his fiduciary duty to seller by referring seller to the attorney who represented the buyers when he knew or should have known such attorney could not properly protect seller's interests; improper for broker to use listing agreements providing for broker to retain one half of any deposit if forfeited by buyer as such forfeiture clause could, by its terms, allow broker to retain part of the deposit when broker did not earn a commission; broker must conduct business under name as it appears on license; broker engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in preparing contracts for purchase and sale of real estate which did not contain a clause making it subject to the approval of the parties» attorneys and were not a form recommended by a joint bar / real estate board committee; broker demonstrated untrustworthiness and incompetency in using sales contract which purported to change the terms of the listing agreement to include a higher commission; broker demonstrated untrustworthiness and incompetency in using contracts of sale which were unclear, ambiguous, vague and incomplete; broker failed to amend purchase agreement to reflect amendment to increase deposit amount; broker demonstrated untrustworthiness in back - dating purchase agreements; broker demonstrated untrustworthiness in participating in scheme to have seller hold undisclosed second mortgage and to mislead first mortgagee about the purchaser's financial ability to purchase; broker demonstrated untrustworthiness by claiming unearned commission and filing affidavit of entitlement for unearned commission; DOS fails to establish by substantial evidence that respondent acted as undisclosed dual agent; corporate broker bound by the knowledge acquired by and is responsible for acts committed by its licensees within the actual or apparent scope of their authority; corporate and individual brokers» licenses revoked, no action taken on application for renewal until proof of payment of sum of $ 2,000.00 plus interests for deposits unlawfully retained