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Though LLCs have become a default choice of entity for many businesses, corporations – C Corps and S Corps – still produce optimal results for many family-held businesses or businesses operating in industries where the corporate is preferred or required. The founding documents of corporations – Articles of Incorporation, Stockholders’ Agreements, and bylaws – are complex, interlocking instruments that create and regulate the capital structure, governance, and finance of the business. Very important issues of who can own stock, how that stock is valued and transferred, how major corporate decisions are made, and how disputes are resolved are all determined by these documents. This program will provide you with a practical guide to planning and drafting the essential founding documents of corporations.

Part 1:

Practical planning and drafting founding documents
Counseling clients about the allocation of voting power and distribution preferences
Framework of law – what’s required, what can be modified, what’s discretionary
Defining common stock characteristics – classes, voting rights
Uses of preferred stock – classes, rights, preferences
Tax issues to consider when drafting founding documents

Part 2:

Instituting boards of directors – duties, restrictions, indemnification
Approval of shareholders – major transactions, voting thresholds, procedures
Restrictions on the transferability of stock
Major components of corporate bylaws
Common traps in drafting founding documents – avoiding later litigation

Note: This material qualifies for self-study credit only. Pursuant to Regulation 15.04.5, a lawyer may receive up to six hours of self-study credit in a reporting year. Self-study programs do not qualify for ethics, elimination of bias, or Kansas credit.

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Eric J. Zinn Related seminars and products: 1

Eric J. Zinn is of counsel in the Denver office of Kutak Rock, LLP. He represents clients in clients in matters involving corporate, individual and partnership taxation, state and local taxation, and corporate mergers, acquisitions and finance. He is a frequent lecturer on topics including the proper choice of legal entity for the operation of a business enterprise, drafting operating agreements for limited liability companies, international taxation, partnership taxation, and like-kind exchanges. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado-Denver Business School and at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder. He is the author of “Colorado Limited Liability Company Forms and Practice Manual,” published by Data Trace Publishing. Before entering private practice he served as a judicial clerk to the U.S. Tax Court. Mr. Zinn earned his B.A. from the University of the South, J.D. and LL.M. in taxation from the University of Florida College of Law, and M.S. in finance, M.S. in information systems, and M.B.A. from the University of Colorado-Denver.

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