Business Organization
The Business Organization section of FindLaw’s Corporate Counsel Center provides information on matters such as Joint Ventures, Liability for Acts of Dissolved Corporations, and more. Click on the articles below to learn about limited liability companies that give you the tax advantages of a partnership with the liability protection of a corporation. Or browse the section on how S corporations can provide significant tax advantages over C corporations in the right circumstances. Find more about these and other subjects under Corporate Governance.
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Business Organization Articles
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SEC Proposes Rules Regarding Nominating Committee Functions and Communications Between Security Holders and Boards of Directors
The SEC is proposing amendments to Items 7 and 22 of Schedule 14A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that will require new disclosure requirements in proxy statements regarding the operation of board nominating committees and the means, if any ...
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SEC Proposes Rules Requiring Companies To Include Shareholder Nominees For Director In Company Proxy Materials
The SEC has proposed new Exchange Act Rule 14a-11 that would, under certain circumstances, require a company to include information regarding a shareholder's nominee for election as a director in the company's proxy materials. As proposed, Rule ...
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SEC Proposes Rules Requiring Listing Standards for Audit Committee Independence and Powers
As required by Section 301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new rules on January 9, 2003 directing the national securities exchanges and associations (principally the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq) to ...
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Securities Alert: February 2000
In response to the Report and Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Committee on Improving the Effectiveness of Corporate Audit Committees, the SEC has adopted rules requiring a more thorough review of periodic financial statements and the disclosure ...
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Securities Alert: November 1999
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted new rules, effective January 24, 2000, which, among other things, update and simplify the rules and regulations applicable to takeover transactions (including tender offers, mergers ...
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Securities Class Action Litigation in the U.S.: What Asian issuers need to know
"Why do public companies in the U.S. get sued by shareholders so often?" is a question often raised by management and directors of Asian companies which have listed in the U.S. or are considering such a listing. The answer is simple: a unique ...
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Securities Enforcement and Litigation
Scott O'Connell, the leader of the Financial Services and Securities Litigation team at Nixon Peabody LLP, approached the topic of securities enforcement and litigation by using a hypothetical scenario involving "Inkblot Industries", a fictitious ...
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Securities Law Liability for Persons Signing SEC Disclosure Documents
There is considerable debate over the extent to which corporate officers and directors can be held liable in private actions brought under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") for signing materially false and ...
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Securities Litigation Exposure
Steve Poss, a Partner and Co- Chair of the Corporate Governance and Securities Litigation Group at Goodwin Procter LLP, led the conference session on Securities Litigation Exposure. Mr. Poss started the session by explaining that we are in the midst ...
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Single Profit Pools: Money and Power
about their earnings and you strike a nerve. A raw nerve. Compensation is such a personal aspect of any partnership and, like any personal relationship, once you add money to the equation it can create a volatile situation. If you then add a change ...
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