Legal Opinion

Billings v. GTFM, LLC

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided June 6, 2007PublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.

Following his ouster as president of GTFM, LLC *282(GTFM or company), the plaintiff, David A. Billings, filed a number of direct and derivative claims against his fellow members and managers of the company. Soon thereafter, completing a process which had begun before the action was initiated, the members of GTFM voted to sell the entirety of its assets and liabilities to a new entity and to dissolve GTFM. Billings, the founder and largest stakeholder in GTFM, had no interest in the successor entity. On the basis of GTFM’s dissolution, the defendants moved to dismiss Billings’s derivative claims…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Kramer v. Western Pacific Industries, Inc.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1988
  2. Solimene v. B. GRAUEL & CO., KGMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
  3. Lewis v. AndersonSupreme Court of Delaware · 1984
  4. Shapiro Equipment Corp. v. Morris & Son Construction Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
  5. Lewis v. WardSupreme Court of Delaware · 2004

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