Court: business partner must honour purchase agreement in division dispute
Rosa represented a client in a special distribution case. The client and a business partner jointly owned a rented house and wanted to end this structure. They agreed that the client would acquire full ownership of the property for a set purchase price. When a dispute arose and the partner refused to honour the agreement, he started proceedings and claimed that the client should be ordered to cooperate in a sale to a third party at a higher price. The court rejected that claim: there was a valid purchase agreement which the partner had to perform.
Rosa Ruimschotel
Marco Guit
Lennard Noordzij