Obtained Summary Judgment for Publicly Traded Live Event Producer
Obtained summary judgment for a publicly traded producer of live events where the primary issue was whether our client, who recently purchased the assets – but not the stock – of a local live event production company, was bound by the arbitration provision in a contract between the local company and the opponent. The asset purchase agreement specifically excluded the contract containing the arbitration provision. The opponent argued that the asset sale was a de facto merger so the contractual exclusion did not apply. The Court rejected that argument and adopted our argument holding, among other things, that the terms of the asset purchase agreement governed.
