Williams Mullen Mezzanine Lending Video Series - Episode 4
Private Equity and Delaware Law – Part One
NGE On Demand: Profits Interests: Granting & Receiving with Patty Cain and Josh Klein
Episode 021: Member Liquidity, Default Rules, and the Corporate-ization of LLCs: A Conversation with Dean Donald J. Weidner
Episode 19: The LLC’s Two Worlds: A Conversation with Professor Peter Molk (Part One)
Lawyers on Tap: Tap Tips for Entity Formation and Taxation
Episode 014: Business Divorce Stories: Business Appraiser Tony Cotrupe and Attorney Jeff Eilender
Episode 4: John Cunningham Interview on Avoiding LLC Deadlock
Episode 6: Tom Rutledge Takes on LLC Member Expulsion
Homebuilder Series Webinar: Joint Ventures Solutions, Steve Lear
In 2022, The LLC Jungle covered the opinion Friend of Camden, Inc. v. Brandt in a post titled LLC Dissolution Vote Defeats Statutory Buyout. In the Friend of Camden case, the Court of Appeal held that an LLC membership vote...more
To every member of a limited liability company who is a natural person, death will come "soon or late". The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act provides that an individual dissociates as a member when...more
Last month, in Flor v Greenberg Farrow Architectural Inc., a three-judge panel of the New Jersey Appellate Division handed down an opinion with important lessons for business owners and practitioners in states that have...more
New York courts are not in the vanguard when it comes to devising less drastic, alternative remedies in LLC judicial dissolution cases. In their defense, there’s nothing in Article 7 of New York’s LLC Law that expressly...more
Under the “default” rules of most limited liability company laws, including California’s Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, LLC managers owe fiduciary duties to the LLC and its members. Those default fiduciary...more
One of the hot button issues frequently leading to litigation in “The LLC Jungle” is the removal of an LLC’s manager. Thoughtfully drafted LLC Operating Agreements contain provisions addressing the criteria and procedures...more
The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act defines "person" to mean, among other things a "trust, a trustee of a trust, including, but not limited to, a trust described under Division 9 (commencing with...more
Today's post continues my discussion of the Court of Appeal's holding in Han v. Hallberg, 2019 Cal. App. LEXIS 475 that a trust is a person that may be a partner under the California Uniform Partnership Act. As I noted...more
Under California’s Revised Limited Liability Company Act (“RULLCA”), LLC participants have substantial freedom to structure their relationship in a customized manner under their governing operating agreement. But one of the...more
Most LLC Operating Agreements contain a provision describing the “purpose” of the business. These “purpose statements” can be extremely broad and open-ended, parroting the boilerplate language required to be present in the...more
One of the recurring issues I see in my litigation practice is LLC managers engaging in “questionable conduct” with third parties — outsiders to the LLC. By “questionable conduct,” I generally mean binding the LLC to...more
Does your operating agreement reflect your intentions? New Jersey’s Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (the “RULLCA”) became effective on March 18, 2013. As noted in a post we authored in 2014, although initially...more
Practitioners under California’s Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act will be familiar with the concept of an “operating agreement” (Cal. Corp. Code § 17701.02(s)). Indeed, I expect that nearly every LLC formed...more
Expulsion a/k/a dissociation of an LLC member is a hot-button topic whether it’s pursuant to the terms of an operating agreement or by court order. This episode of the Business Divorce Roundtable features an interview with...more
One of the features of the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (RULLCA) that has been adopted in Minnesota and many other states is that it allows for an LLC to expel a member by judicial order under certain...more
Is an LLC a party to its own operating agreement? California’s new Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (RULLCA) defines “operating agreement” as “the agreement, whether or not referred to as an operating...more
On January 1, 2014, a new law governing limited liability companies (“LLCs”) went into effect in California. The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (“RULLCA”)1 superseded in its entirety the prior...more
On January 1, 2014, California’s Beverly-Killea Limited Liability Company Act (“Old Act”) was superseded by the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (“New Act”). California legislators were concerned that...more
A new California law governing limited liability companies became effective as of January 1, 2014. The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (RULLCA) makes significant changes in the rights and...more
The new California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act contains some weird inversions of time and logical order. For example, it allows for the formation of an operating agreement even before an LLC is formed. In...more
On January 1, 2014, California’s Beverly-Killea Limited Liability Company Act (Old Act) was superseded by the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (New Act). The New Act includes a number of substantive...more
During the recently completed legislative session, the Florida Legislature unanimously adopted CS/SB 1300, which is a complete re-write of Florida's limited liability company statute. The new limited liability company act...more
The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (RULLCA) was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in September 2012. Intended to come into effect on January 1, 2014, RULLCA replaces the Beverly-Killea Limited...more