Yee

BACKGROUND

Yee is the trustee of a family trust that owns the Bourdette Building in San Francisco. In 2014, she leased space for a restaurant to Fat Noodle 2nd SF, LLC (Fat Noodle 2), a company later determined to be the alter ego of Fat Noodle, LLC (Fat Noodle 1).2 Involved in both Fat Noodle companies was a trio of restaurateurs: Lee Weinberg, Adam Fleischman, and Joshua Skenes. Weinberg and Fleischman’s involvement was through AdVantage Restaurant Partners, LLC, a company co-managed by Weinberg’s Dauntless, LLC, and Fleischman. Skenes was involved in Fat Noodle through his own company, Saison, LLC, of which Fleischman was also a member. In 2015, an unpermitted demolition took place, but the planned Fat Noodle restaurant failed to materialize, rent payments stopped, and Yee sued Weinberg and Fat Noodle 2 for breach of contract, breach of express indemnity, and negligence. In time, Yee would amend her complaint to add Fat Noodle 1, Fleischman, Skenes, Saison, AdVantage, and Dauntless as defendants. Dauntless had been suspended some four months before the filing of Yee’s complaint, and the other legal entities soon followed suit: before trial began in 2021, the corporate charters…