Complex Commercial Litigation
Entity and Structure Issues
The remedy requires a fiduciary or confidential relationship, complexity making legal remedies inadequate, or a demand for money the defendant holds. It compels production of records and a court-supervised reconciliation.
It is frequently paired with fiduciary claims.
Alternative Names:
Equitable Accounting|Action for Accounting
Why it Matters?
The adequacy of legal remedies is the threshold objection, since ordinary discovery frequently provides the same information without invoking equitable jurisdiction, and courts deny accountings where the dispute is a simple debt. Genuine complexity involving years of intermingled transactions supports the remedy. Partnership and joint venture disputes are the recurring context where the relationship itself establishes the predicate.
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Frequently asked questions
What defeats an accounting claim?
What supports the remedy?
