Legal Opinion
Eurycleia Partners, LP v. Seward & Kissel, LLP
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 4, 2009PublishedCited by 474 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Graffeo, J.
Following the collapse of a hedge fund, certain limited partners brought this action sounding in fraud and breach of fiduciary duty against the fund’s attorneys based on the law firm’s failure to disclose improper fund activities and its misrepresentations in the offering memoranda. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the Appellate Division order dismissing the complaint.
In February 2003, John Whittier launched Wood River Partners, LI) a hedge fund in the form of a limited partnership. Whittier was the sole principal and managing member of Wood *557River…
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