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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Striking Back at Stockholder Strike Suits: Corporate Charter Fee-Shifting Provisions
Nationwide concern about frivolous securities litigation has been so great that, in 1995, Congress adopted an act intended to curb it, over President Clinton's veto. Congress is considering additional legislation, responding to practices adopted by ...
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Structuring International Acquisition Transactions Part II
hen a U.S. company acquires a foreign public company, it must comply with the legal and regulatory scheme of the foreign nation. With much of the current U.S. cross-border merger activity taking place with European, Canadian and Japanese ...
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Subsidiary vs. Parent: Utility Environmental Contribution Claims Against Historic Holding Company Parents
At the end of the Nineteenth century, the developing gas and electrical business in the United States experienced concentration of ownership in a relatively small number of holding companies. From 1870 to 1935, hundreds of local utility operating ...
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Summary Judgment In A Commercial Collection Lawsuit: Part IV
On June 5, 1998, plaintiff's attorney received a telephone call from Court. The Court requested that the parties set forth the law on the issue of whether or not the plaintiff, AURIGA, was doing business in New York as an unauthorized foreign ...
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Summary of 2004 Amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law and the Constitution of the State of Delaware
A number of amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL") have been adopted by the Delaware General Assembly and signed into law. The changes became effective on August 1, 2004. While many of the amendments are technical in nature ...
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Summary of Recent Developments in Executive Compensation
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the "Act"),3 enacted on July 30, 2002, was designed to prevent deceptive management and accounting practices and to enhance financial reporting and disclosure. The Act was adopted to restore investor confidence in ...
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Supreme Court Issues Major Decision Limiting Liability of Corporate Parents Under CERCLA
The United States Supreme Court has issued a major decision addressing the circumstances in which parent companies may be held liable for the environmental problems of their subsidiaries. The decision is of interest and importance to a broad ...
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Synthesis of Lipid A Derivatives and Their Interactions with Polymyxin B and Polymyxin B Nonapeptide
:Ryan Marshall in collaboration with Professor Paul Savage and students at Brigham Young University's Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.:Journal of the American Chemical Society publication citation: "Synthesis of Lipid A Derivatives and Their ...
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The 1996 Justice Department/FTC Statements on Physician Joint Ventures and Multiprovider Organizations
On August 28, 1996, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (the "Agencies") released revised joint "Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy In Health Care". The revised statements were issued in response to, and after ...
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The Advantages and the Alternatives of Corporations
A. People incorporate a business for a variety of reasons, including: A. It is no longer necessary in Missouri. One individual can be the sole shareholder, the sole director, and the sole officer of a corporation. The decision to involve others ...
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