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Business Entities: Making The Right Choice
Business Entities: Making The Right Choice

 

Audio CDs and Course Book

Some of the most complicated issues for attorneys providing advice to a business-owner client are selecting the form of business entity best suited for that client and deciding whether, how and when to change to a different form of business entity. The 159-page course book and audio CDs of this 3.3-hour December 4, 2007 program by Steven G. Siegel give you a practical and useful explanation of those issues and much more, including disposition of business interests.

Mr. Siegel, President of The Siegel Group, a national consulting firm based in Morristown, NJ, covers these important topics:

ü Consider Basic Ownership Issues, Objectives And Goals

ü Types Of Entities To Be Considered

• sole proprietorship • general and limited partnerships

• limited liability company • C and S corporations

ü Ownership Issues: Who Can Be The Owners Of The Available Entities?

ü Liability Issues: General Or Limited

ü Management And Control Issues: Who Is In Charge?

ü General Considerations: Simplicity, Formality And Cost

ü Formation Of The Entity

• required formalities

• tax issues relating to formation

• tax treatment of formation expenses

• choice of accounting period and method of accounting

• determining capital structure

ü Operation Of The Entity: Tax Considerations

• sole proprietorships • partnerships

• limited liability companies • C and S corporations

ü Disposition Of The Business Interest

• disposing of a proprietorship interest

• disposing and/or liquidation of a partnership interest

• non-liquidating distributions of partnership property

• disposing of a corporate business

ü Switching From One Business Entity To Another

• incorporation of an existing partnership or LLC

• converting a corporation to a partnership

• converting a C corporation to an S corporation and vice versa

• converting a partnership to an LLC

• conversion of general partnership interests to a limited and vice versa

• converting a single member LLC to a multi-member LLC

ü BONUS: The course book includes two Sample FORMS:

• LLC Operating Agreement

• Family Limited Partnership Agreement

 

FORMS: To download forms relating to these topics, please go to www.NLFforms.com

 
Price: $109.00


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