Principles of business organizations

The study of business organizations is, broadly speaking, a study of how people engage in business and, more importantly, how the law facilitates and regulates the operation of such businesses. Written in a clear and informative style, and chock full of examples and illustrations, this book examines the legal rules and doctrines associated with running a business-from formation to dissolution to everything in between. These rules and doctrines are explored within the context of the various organizational forms in which a business may be operated. Thus, reading this book will provide you with a solid grounding in the law of agency, general partnerships, corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and limited liability companies.*

Contents

• Preface

• Introduction

• Agency

• The general partnership

• The corporation : overview, theory, and history

• Formation of corporations (and related pre-incorporation activities)

• Distribution of powers in the corporation

• Fiduciary duties

• Special issues in the closely held corporation

• Special issues in the publicly traded corporation

• Finance, issuance, and distributions

• Potential liability in securities transactions

• Fundamental corporate changes

• Shareholder as plaintiff : derivative litigation

• The limited partnership

• The limited liability partnership

• The limited liability company