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California's Flexible Purpose Corporation: A Step Forward, A Step Back, Or No Step At All?, Christen Clarke Oct 2012

California's Flexible Purpose Corporation: A Step Forward, A Step Back, Or No Step At All?, Christen Clarke

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

The roads of social welfare and commercial enterprise have come to an intersection in recent years. Laws governing corporations are expanding to make room for new forms of business entities that seek to satisfy both social and financial goals. The two most prominent “hybrid” business forms are the Low-Profit Limited Liability Company and the Benefit Corporation. The newest hybrid entity to take effect is the Flexible Purpose Corporation, which was introduced in California at the beginning of 2012. With the existence of hybrid organizations that already fit into the mold of Corporations and Limited Liability Companies, is there really a …


Agents Without Principals: Regulating The Duty Of Loyalty For Nonprofit Corporations Through The Intermediate Sanctions Tax Regulations, Carly B. Eisenberg, Kevin Outterson Oct 2012

Agents Without Principals: Regulating The Duty Of Loyalty For Nonprofit Corporations Through The Intermediate Sanctions Tax Regulations, Carly B. Eisenberg, Kevin Outterson

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

Delaware corporate law imposes a duty of loyalty on officers and directors as a mechanism to regulate and deter self-dealing transactions. In nonprofit corporations, however, there are generally no shareholders with direct financial incentives to monitor against self-dealing. In the absence of shareholders and other principals, Congress and the IRS have articulated duty of loyalty rules for nonprofits that reach far beyond those applied to the for-profit world--most prominently the § 4958 intermediate sanctions. This article identifies the persons who owe a duty of loyalty to a nonprofit corporation, the applicable fiduciary standards for violating the duty of loyalty, and …


The Need For A Self-Sustaining Mobile Legal Clinic In Widespread Urban Centers, Eshan Zaffar Jan 2012

The Need For A Self-Sustaining Mobile Legal Clinic In Widespread Urban Centers, Eshan Zaffar

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

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Taking Healthcare's Pulse: Legal Issues Involved In Healthcare Business Transactions, Renee A. Pistone Jan 2012

Taking Healthcare's Pulse: Legal Issues Involved In Healthcare Business Transactions, Renee A. Pistone

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

There are many federal regulations to consider when a healthcare lawyer creates and evaluates a particular healthcare business transaction. The healthcare market is highly competitive with the formation of healthcare business transactions on the rise. Hospitals and physicians seek dynamic and cost effective ways to deliver healthcare and partnerships are being formed between physicians and hospitals. These partnerships add to the marked increase in healthcare business transactions along with the progressed development of the physician hospital organization (“PHO”). Attorneys who execute healthcare business transactions on behalf of clients have to follow the federal laws. Part I sets forth potential ethics …