AXA Investment Managers UK Ltd. v. Endeavor Capital Management LLC

MEMORANDUM & ORDER

MICHAEL H. DOLINGER, United States Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiff AXA Investment Managers UK Ltd. (“AXA”) has moved for summary judgment against defendants Endeavor Capital Management LLC (“Endeavor”) and Anthony F. Buffa (“Buffa”), the managing general partner of Endeavor, on a breach-of-contract claim. While Endeavor concedes that it breached the put-option agreements1 into which it had entered with plaintiff, defendant Buffa asserts that his personal guaranty of these agreements is void for want of consideration. In addition, both defendants argue that the twenty-five-percent…