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The Plight Of The Bare Naked Assignee, Daniel S. Kleinberger
The Plight Of The Bare Naked Assignee, Daniel S. Kleinberger
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A new and separate opportunity for oppression exists because LLC law purports to (1) recognize a species of persons holding legal rights vis-á-vis the LLC (assignees) while (2) denying those persons any remedies whatsoever in connection with those rights. This article addresses the conceptual mechanics, history, and ultimate instability of that denial. The article also considers a note of irony—namely, that the plight of the "bare naked assignee" derives from a construct, the organization as "aggregate," that LLC law has in all other respects emphatically transcended. To understand the plight of the assignee of an LLC interest, one must first …