Research handbook on partnerships, LLCs and alternative forms of business organizations / edited by Robert W. Hillman, Mark J. Loewenstein.

Publisher's description: While the partnership has been a viable alternative to incorporation for centuries, the much more recent limited liability company (LLC) has increasingly become the business organization of choice for new firms in the United States. This Handbook includes extensive disc...

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Other Authors: Hillman, Robert W. (Robert William), 1949-, Loewenstein, Mark J.
Other title:Research handbook on partnerships, limited liability companies and alternative forms of business organizations.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • CONTRACTUAL FREEDOM: The siren song of unlimited contractual freedom / Leo E. Strine, Jr., J. Travis Laster
  • Freedom of contract for alternative entities in Delaware : myth or reality? / Mark J. Loewenstein
  • Contractual freedom and family business / Benjamin Means
  • INTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS: Alternative entities in Delaware : re-introduction of fiduciary concepts by the backdoor? / Douglas M. Branson
  • Achaian and interest transfers among existing partners and members / J. William Callison
  • Agency in the alternatives : common-law perspectives on binding the firm / Deborah A. DeMott
  • RELATIONSHIPS WITH THIRD PARTIES: Is the liability of limited liability entities really limited? / Allan G. Donn
  • Mitigating the impact of a counterparty LLC's financial distress / Jennifer Ivey-Crickenberger, Michelle M. Harner
  • Attacking asset protection LLCs / Franklin A. Gevurtz
  • TAX AND ACCOUNTING: Tax aspects of partnerships, LLCs, and alternative forms of business organizations / Bradley T. Borden
  • Capital accounts in LLCs and in partnerships / Donald J. Weidner
  • DISSOLUTION AND FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES: Fundamental changes in the LLC : a study in path-divergence and convergence / Joan MacLeod Heminway
  • Care and loyalty after the dissociation from or dissolution of an unincorporated entity / Thomas E. Rutledge
  • SPECIALIZED ENTITIES: Nonprofit and charitable uses of LLCs / Cassady V. "Cass" Brewer
  • State laboratories and social enterprise law / J. Haskell Murray
  • Business trusts / Peter B. Oh
  • The law firm as an industry model for entity choice and management / Allison Martin Rhodes, Robyn Axberg
  • JUDICIAL AND LEGISLATIVE RESPONSES: Harmonization, rationalization, and uniformity / Robert R. Keatinge
  • Casual convergence in unincorporated entity law / Nadelle Grossman
  • Dictum in alternative entity jurisprudence and the expansion of judicial power in Delaware / Mohsen Manesh
  • INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ALTERNATIVE FORMS: Partnership options in the UK : good things come in threes / Elspeth Berry
  • Legislative policy of alternative forms of business organization : the case of Japanese LLCs / Zenichi Shishido
  • Return of the prodigal form? : partnerships and partnership law in the People's Republic of China / Nicholas Calcina Howson
  • Alternatives to capital-oriented corporations under Russian law / Vladimir Orlov
  • The advent of the LLP in India / Afra Afsharipour
  • The evolution of non-corporate forms of business in Taiwan : introducing the LLP as an alternative business form / Andrew Jen-Guang Lin
  • Brazilian alternatives to the corporate form of organization / AndrĂ© Antunes Soares de Camargo.