Excessive Compensation: What to do when the co-owners of your business pay themselves excessively
Building and Exiting Business Partnerships
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Day 17 of One Month to More Effective Compliance for Business Ventures- Corporate Controller and Business Ventures
An Accountant based in Atlanta, Georgia provided valuable advice to a new Client who was starting a kitchen design business with a business partner....more
In recent years, the headlines have tracked the news of high-profile breakups among business partners in private companies. These business partner fallouts include: - 2023: Sam Altman was ousted as Open AI CEO (for...more
I focus my practice on commercial litigation and in particular on representing business owners in disputes with their business partners. As part of my job I get to see a whole variety of ways that business people attempt to...more
Just a few weeks ago, I commented on a recent uptick in disputes centered on the breakup of professional services firms. In those disputes, we expect that the demands of the legal, accounting, and medical professions draw...more
The anomalously named California Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 specifies when a partner in a general partnership "dissociates". Cal. Corp. Code § 16601. Upon dissociation, a general partner loses the right to participate...more
As many of us learned early in life, Ice Cube has found out that it’s always better to get the money up front. In 2017, Ice Cube co-founded the Big3 basketball league, which features 8 teams playing a 10 week season of...more
Shareholders A and B are the sole shareholders of a real estate holding corporation. Their shareholders’ agreement includes provisions that...more