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Does a former partner share in the profits resulting from transactions with customers who were identified during the partnership, but the sales operations took place after the dissolution of the partnership and the alteration of its terms?

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If services (such as periodic maintenance) are related to products sold during the partnership period, then upon dissolution of the partnership, an agreement must be reached on sharing clients or finding a way to deal with them, because these services belong to the company. If a product was offered to a client and effort was expended on it during the partnership, and then the sale occurred after its dissolution, the partner must be informed and negotiations held to share the profit, because it resulted from effort expended during the partnership. All of the above is applicable unless the partners, upon dissolution of the company, agreed that each partner may dispose of any future work that comes to them, regardless of whether it is an extension of the company's work. In general, after the dissolution of the company, any partner may deal with former clients, and is not obligated to dispose of their data, nor does the other partner have the right to stipulate that. The partner is not obliged to give a portion of his profit to his former partner merely for dealing with clients he came to know through the company, because the company is a non-binding contract and has been dissolved.

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