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Two Decades Of "Alternative Entities": From Tax Rationalization Through Alphabet Soup To Contract As Deity, Daniel S. Kleinberger
Two Decades Of "Alternative Entities": From Tax Rationalization Through Alphabet Soup To Contract As Deity, Daniel S. Kleinberger
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This essay: (i) puts into perspective the past 20 years of developments in the U.S. law of limited liability companies (LLCs), limited liability partnerships (LLPs), and limited liability limited partnerships (LLLPs); (ii) explains how a movement toward tax rationalization has been transformed into a palace coup aimed at fiduciary duty (a fundamental tenet of the U.S. law of closely held businesses); and (iii) criticizes both conceptually and pragmatically efforts to "kill Cardozo" and worship "freedom of contract."
The Llc As Recombinant Entity: Revisiting Fundamental Questions Through The Llc Lens, Daniel S. Kleinberger
The Llc As Recombinant Entity: Revisiting Fundamental Questions Through The Llc Lens, Daniel S. Kleinberger
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Rather than being a simple hybrid, the U.S. limited liability company is better described as a recombinant entity that combines attributes of four different types of business organizations. The LLC offers an almost ineffably flexible structure, but that flexibility does not place the LLC beyond the range of traditional, formalist analysis. To the contrary, parsing the LLC in pursuit of conventional forms may allow us "to know the place for the first time." This essay uses conventional concepts to: (i) explore whether "labels matter" when LLC membership interests are described as Contract or as Property; and (ii) examine how the …
Weber V. U.S. Sterling Securities, Inc.: Contracting The Liability Shield For Members Of Delaware Limited Liability Companies, Marios J. Monopolis
Weber V. U.S. Sterling Securities, Inc.: Contracting The Liability Shield For Members Of Delaware Limited Liability Companies, Marios J. Monopolis
Journal of Business & Technology Law
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