Delaware Alternative Business Entities: New Opportunities With LLCs, LLPs and Statutory Trust Vehicles
Navigating Recent Statutory Amendments and Case Law Developments
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar/teleconference with Q&A
Conducted on Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Recorded event now available
This CLE webinar will review the recent amendments to the Delaware alternative entity statutes and discuss significant case law developments affecting entity creation and structure. The panel will also discuss recent trends and the cutting edge use of alternative entities in business, finance and investments.
Description
The contractual flexibility provided in the Delaware alternative business entity codes makes it the top choice for LLC, LLP and statutory trust formation. All corporate practitioners must understand legal developments and trends in utilization of these entities in business, finance and investment.
Several key 2009 cases have addressed various issues associated with LLC operating agreements, fiduciary duties and liabilities and judicial dissolution. In Aug. 2009, Delaware amended its alternative entities codes to clarify existing law and create more flexibility for contractual freedom.
Some of the more significant amendments to the codes address the doctrine of independent legal significance, amendments to governing agreements in the wake of mergers and conversions, LLP formation issues, and expansion of the jurisdiction of the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Listen as our authoritative panel of corporate attorneys discusses recent statutory and common law developments in Delaware alternative business entities and trends in the use of these entities.
Outline
- Overview of Delaware alternative entities and recent amendments
- Limited Liability Company Act
- Revised Uniform Partnership Act
- Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act
- Statutory Trust Act
- Cutting edge use of alternative entities
- Investments
- Securitization
- Real estate
- International
- Significant Delaware case law developments in alternative entities
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- How have the recent amendments to the Delaware alternative entity statutes impacted operations and governance of these entities?
- What are the emerging trends for use of alternative entities in finance and investments?
- How are alternative entities being used in the international business arena?
Faculty
Ellisa Opstbaum Habbart,
Partner
The Delaware Counsel Group, Wilmington, Del.
She is a founding partner of the firm and represents Delaware corporations and alternative entities in national and international business transactions. She has been a member of the Bar Committees responsible for the creation and amendment of the Delaware alternative entity statutes, and was ABA Advisor to the Uniform Law Commission Drafting Committee on the Uniform Statutory Trust Entity Act.
Willem Calkoen,
Partner
NautaDutilh N.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands
He specialises in M&A work (both public offers and private transactions) and in securities law and corporate governance. He has been involved in a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, representing clients such as AT&T, General Electric, 3I, ICI, Knight Vinke and CalPERS, Perfetti Van Melle, Rexam, Smit Internationale, South African Paper Industries and Stork.
Thomas E. Rutledge,
Member
Stoll Keenon Ogden, Louisville, Ky.
He devotes his practice to business and securities law with a specialized focus on the law of business organizations. He is actively involved in the LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities Committee of the Section of Business Law, ABA and was an ABA advisor to the Uniform Law Commission Drafting Committee on the Uniform Statutory Trust Entity Act and Uniform Entity Transactions Act.
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