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in one particular case we have
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a dissident shareholder who
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is a minority shareholder in about nine
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different
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uh pizza franchises my client is the
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majority
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shareholder in all of those franchises
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and several more
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and he was complaining about
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management’s
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decision making all of which was
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nonsense because management was
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untouchable
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but the truth was is that he was broke
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and
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it took a little digging to figure that
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out so we approached
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uh the opponent and his lawyer in the
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mediation
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and i knew he needed money so i
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suggested to my client that we gross up
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what we projected to be the next two
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years earnings anyway
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for him gross them up and pay him
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that in exchange for his stock set
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another way
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we paid him with his own money and got
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his stock back
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and he bought it he thought that was
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great so as my client and i were walking
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out to the parking lot
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he was he’s very sophisticated guy and
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he looked at me and said tell me how you
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did that again
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and my response was you never murder a
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guy about to commit suicide