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McCarter & English, LLP

Recent Amendments to Delaware Alternative Entity Statutes

On August 1, 2025, legislation went into effect amending the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the LLC Act), the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the LP Act), and the Delaware Revised Uniform...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Amazon APEX Complaints Convey Personal Jurisdiction in Amazon Seller’s Forum

Most reputable online marketplaces have long offered policing programs to address counterfeiting of registered copyrights and trademarks. The copyright or trademark owner needs only to provide the marketplace with a copy of...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Indirectly Held Profits Interests and Rev. Proc. 93-27

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At war with Russia in eastern Europe, a nascent competing world order, mass shootings and bank failures at home, questionable audit practices by the Big 4 . . . everywhere, debt ceilings and the risk of default, inflation,...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

LLC and Partnership Authority “Safe Harbors”

California’s statutes governing LLCs and general partnerships include “safe harbor” provisions making it easier for third parties to rely on the apparent authority of an LLC’s manager or a partnership’s partner. The statutes...more

Winstead PC

BBVA Receives Holiday Gift From Dallas Appellate Court:  The Decision Includes Guidance for Private Company Owners 

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Last week, the Dallas Court of Appeals overturned a $98 million trial court judgment, which was based on a jury finding that BBVA USA (BBVA) had defrauded one of its commercial borrowers. See BBVA, et al. v. Bagwell, et al.,...more

Winstead PC

Navigating Safe Harbors: Review of the Protections Provided to Governing Persons by the Texas Interested Party Statute and the...

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Under Texas law, when the owners of closely held companies have co-investors, they need to exercise care in managing their business. This need for caution is due in large part to a Texas statute that makes it easier for...more

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Expanding the Scope of the Bankruptcy Safe Harbor for Securities Transactions

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In 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit made headlines when it ruled that creditors' state law fraudulent transfer claims arising from the 2007 leveraged buyout ("LBO") of Tribune Co. ("Tribune") were...more

Hutchison PLLC

What is a Profits Interest?

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Equity compensation can be different in LLCs and corporations. LLCs have the benefit of using a special equity compensation tool called a “profits interest.” Unlike a traditional stock option, which represents a right to...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

IRS Provides Additional Clarity Regarding Donations to Scholarship Granting Organizations - SALT Alert: Alabama Edition

On December 16, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations... that provide some good news and needed clarification for C corporations, individuals, and S corporations and other...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Delaware Court Again Finds Conflicted Transaction Safe Harbors Not So Safe

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Limited partnerships and limited liability companies, as creatures of contract, often have in their governing agreements safe harbor provisions for approval of conflicted transactions with interested parties. These are...more

Burr & Forman

The New Section 199a 20% Profit Deduction For Pass-Thru Business Owners: Does It Apply To Rental Real Estate Activities?

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Under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress enacted a new Section 199A 20% profit deduction for owners of pass-through businesses, and which include Subchapter S corporations, LLCs, sole proprietorships, and even certain...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Status Report on IRS Guidance Limiting Charitable Contribution Deductions to Scholarship Granting Organizations - SALT Alert:...

Sometimes the law of unintended consequences is difficult to correct after the fact. The most recent example may be the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s $10,000 annual limitation on state and local tax deductions claimed by...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Op Funds Expand Deferral Paths for CRE Investors

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BOSTON — The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 created the Opportunity Zone program which provides real estate investors a new tool to defer gains from sales or exchanges of capital assets by investing those gains in a “Qualified...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Limited Partners Take a Licking in Two Delaware Supreme Court Decisions

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Notwithstanding the ascendency of the limited liability company, the Delaware limited partnership continues to serve as an important, tax-advantaged vehicle for certain capital-intensive ventures — especially in the energy...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Morrison & Foerster Quarterly News Tax Talk - Volume 7, No.4 January 2015

In This Issue: - Congress Passes Year-End Tax Extenders Bill - House Adopts New “Dynamic Scoring” Rule - Foreign Fund Engaged in Lending and Stock Distribution Not Protected by “Trading in Stock or Securities”...more

K&L Gates LLP

New Guidance on Historical Rehabilitation Credits May Indicate Tougher Safe Harbors for Other Investment Tax Credits in the Future

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On December 30, 2013, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) released Revenue Procedure 2014-12, which sets out a new “safe harbor” for allocations of the historical rehabilitation credit (the “HRC”) among partners in a...more

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