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Court Declines to Undo a Corporate Board’s Vote that a Disgruntled Shareholder Skipped

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In a costly episode of Aaron Sorkin’s adage that “decisions are made by those who show up,” the majority shareholder in a pair of family-controlled oil and gas companies learned of about 850,000 reasons why attendance can be...more

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A Journey Through Subchapter S / A Review of The Not So Obvious & The Many Traps That Exist For The Unwary: Part X – Converting a...

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When considering converting a C corporation to an S corporation, tax advisers and taxpayers need to pay careful attention to the many perils that exist. Failure to pay close attention to the road in this area could result in...more

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When A Shareholder Loses Control of Their S Corporation

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If given their druthers, most transactional corporate attorneys would prefer to spend their day practicing “happy law,” by which they typically mean transactions that involve capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, joint...more

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What to Do When Your Distribution Checks Stop Arriving

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For months, if not years, you received distribution checks from the business in which you own an interest. The funds came without question and like clockwork. You relied on them. Then suddenly, they stopped coming. Is this...more

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When Do Disguised Dividends Add Up to Minority Shareholder Oppression?

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De facto dividend. Disguised dividend. Constructive dividend. They all refer to the same thing: monies in excess of reasonable compensation taken by owners of closely held companies, booked as deductible employment...more

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Recent Delaware and Other Decisions Relevant to the MBCA

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This article describes two recent Delaware decisions relevant to the Model Business Corporation Act (the “MBCA”). One of those decisions relates to a board’s determination of the availability of surplus to support...more

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LLC as S Corporation: Square Peg Meets Round Hole?

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At different times over the course of the last thirty days or so, I have seen reports describing various plans to increase income taxes and/or wealth taxes on the “rich” that have either been endorsed or proposed by the likes...more

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S Corps with Real Property: Separating Shareholders & Partnership Envy

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Tax Alchemy? How many of you remember Section 138509 of the Ways and Means Committee’s markup last September of what would have been the Build Back Better Act? (A moment of silence, please.) Allow me to jog your memory....more

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Constructive Dividends and The Closely Held C Corporation

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Withdrawing Value- Any tax adviser who has represented closely held businesses and their owners long enough realizes there are certain recurring themes that transcend the otherwise unique characteristics of the industry of...more

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When Is The "Time Of Distribution" To Shareholders?

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Chapter 5 of the California General Corporation law prohibits a distribution to shareholders unless certain conditions are met.  In order to determine whether these conditions are met it is necessary to know when the...more

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The UK Supreme Court Seeks to Clarify the Reflective Loss Principle (or Whose Claim is it Anyway?)

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What is the reflective loss principle? • The English law principle of reflective loss traditionally held that when a company suffered loss as a consequence of the actions of a third party, the loss suffered by its...more

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Strategies for Funds Facing Liquidity Issues as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Due to economic conditions that have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, many regulated investment companies (“RICs”) may have liquidity issues with respect to their investment portfolios. One alternative for RICs that are...more

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2019 Half-year in review: M&A legal and market developments

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We set out in the attached Newsletter a number of interesting English court decisions and market developments which have taken place in the second half of 2019 and their impact on M&A transactions. This review looks at these...more

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Section 1800 And The Case Of The Little Shareholder That Could

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Section 1800 of the California Corporations Code provides a procedure for the involuntary dissolution of a corporation. The process begins with the filing of a verified complaint, but only those persons listed in the statute...more

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Belgian Code on Companies and Associations: A practical handbook on the new law

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The new Belgian Code on Companies and Associations enters into force on 1 May 2019. The Belgian Code on Companies and Associations (the "BCCA"), enacted by the Belgian parliament on 28 February 2019, repeals the existing...more

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Establishing A Business Entity In England

The attractiveness of the United Kingdom as a business location is unabated. There are many advantages to doing business in the UK. Investors can draw on a skilled workforce and access a large market; costs of labour and...more

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IRS Will Resume Ruling on Important Spin-Off Issues

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The IRS recently provided taxpayers with favorable guidance involving tax-free spin-offs. First, the IRS will resume issuing private rulings that allow a distributing corporation to satisfy debt it issued in anticipation of a...more

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Corporate Communicator - 2017 Annual Meeting Season

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Dear clients and friends, We present our traditional year-end issue of Snell & Wilmer’s Corporate Communicator to help you prepare for the upcoming annual report and proxy season. This issue highlights SEC reporting and...more

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IRS Proposes Updates to Rules for Deemed Distributions of Stock and Stock Rights

On April 13, 2016, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued proposed regulations under Section 305(c) of the Internal Revenue Code that would resolve certain issues relating to the amount and timing of deemed distributions...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The SEC Proposes Expanding Reporting Requirements for Investment Companies

On May 20, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) approved new proposed rules, forms and amendments that would expand the information that registered investment companies1 are required to report. The SEC’s...more

Allen Matkins

Court Declines To Declare “S” Corporation Shareholders’ Agreement Unenforceable

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In general, shareholders of a corporation that has elected to be taxed under Subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code are taxed on corporate profits regardless of whether the corporation makes any distribution of those...more

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Court Rules Shareholders May Be Sued In De Facto Dissolution

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California Corporations Code Section 2011 provides that causes of action against a dissolved corporation, whether arising before or after dissolution, may be enforced against its shareholders if any of the assets of the...more

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Tax Alert: AM 2015-01—Does Previously Taxed Income “Tier up” to a Domestic Corporate Shareholder?

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In a recent chief counsel memorandum (AM 2015-01), the IRS addressed a long uncertain tax question: when a US corporate shareholder includes an amount in income under subpart F, does the subpart F inclusion increase the...more

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