Robert A. Steinberg, Esq.
Partnership Dissolution
Mr. Steinberg’s mediation practice focuses on business-related cases.
He is known for his technical legal expertise, his innovative solutions
to difficult business disputes, and his insight into parties’
motivations.
Mr. Steinberg’s long experience as a tax and transactional lawyer make
him the ideal choice for partnership dissolution cases. He has planned,
negotiated and implemented the formation, capitalization, operation and
liquidation of all types of legal entities – including the tax
allocations for partnerships and limited liability companies taxable as
partnerships – and the acquisition, divestiture or merger of dozens of
companies. As a lawyer, Mr. Steinberg was involved in battles over
corporate control, fights among shareholders, management disputes,
claims of officer and director misconduct, and other corporate
governance issues under the laws of several states, including California
and Delaware.
Representative Partnership Dissolution Cases
• In anticipation of possible sale of business, one partner sued other
for undervaluing business, withholding distributions and accounting
irregularities. Before settling, mediation lasted 34 hours over two
sessions.
• Investment banking partnership dissolved, with mutual claims of breach
of the fiduciary duty of loyalty.
• Dissolution of drug and alcohol rehabilitation partnership.
• Shareholder of engineering services company sued majority shareholders
alleging corporate “freeze out.”
• Minority shareholders of medical management company sued majority
shareholder to force him to relinquish shares.
Career Highlights
• Mr. Steinberg has successfully resolved hundreds of mediated cases. In
his twenty-five year career as a corporate, securities and tax lawyer
and as a litigator, Mr. Steinberg handled billions of dollars in
transactions and obtained tens of millions of dollars in tax refunds.
• As partner-in-charge of the Los Angeles office of an international law
firm, Mr. Steinberg increased annual distributable income per partner by
more than $300,000 in fewer than four years.
• 150 of Mr. Steinberg’s partners honored him with an award for
“Outstanding Teamwork and Collegiality.”
• Mr. Steinberg has extensive experience with multinational and
multicultural matters.
Mr. Steinberg has published more than fifty
articles and presented more
than thirty seminars on
settlement advocacy, case evaluation, negotiation strategy and tactics,
and mediation. He received his undergraduate degree from the University
of Michigan (Honors in English), his law degree from Duke University,
and his Masters of Law (in Taxation) degree from New York University.
Mr. Steinberg’s full resume and references can be reviewed
here.
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