As a part of our CasebookPlus offering, you'll receive the print book along with lifetime digital access to the eBook. Additionally you'll receive the Learning Library which includes quizzes tied specifically to your book, and outline starter and digital access to leading study aids in that subject and the Gilbert Law Dictionary. This book is designed for a corporations or business organizations course that introduces fundamental entity concepts in the context of legal planning challenges and through exercises that develop analytical, problem solving, writing, and communication skills. The book features: 66 mini-case study problems Core doctrinal concepts and contemporary issues, such as say-on-pay, latest shareholder proposal trends, director election bylaws, JOBS Act of 2012, advance notice bylaws (round two), and more Comprehensive discussions on a wide range of planning challenges: choice-of entity, buy-sell agreements, employee protections, owner operational deal points, ethical challenges, shareholder debt, securities law exemptions, structuring business sales, director protections, controlling shareholder risks, hostile takeover bids, executive compensation, and more Practical, understandable discussions on financial statements, fundamental financial concepts, business entity taxation, going public realties, bonds, drafting key organizational documents, business valuations, and more Court opinions and statutory materials that eliminate the need for supplementary materials

This book is designed for a corporations or business organizations course that introduces fundamental entity concepts in the context of legal planning challenges and through exercises that develop analytical, problem solving, writing, and communication skills. The book features: 66 mini-case study problems Core doctrinal concepts and contemporary issues, such as say-on-pay, latest shareholder proposal trends, director election bylaws, JOBS Act of 2012, advance notice bylaws (round two), and more Comprehensive discussions on a wide range of planning challenges: choice-of entity, buy-sell agreements, employee protections, owner operational deal points, ethical challenges, shareholder debt, securities law exemptions, structuring business sales, director protections, controlling shareholder risks, hostile takeover bids, executive compensation, and more Practical, understandable discussions on financial statements, fundamental financial concepts, business entity taxation, going public realties, bonds, drafting key organizational documents, business valuations, and more Court opinions and statutory materials that eliminate the need for supplementary materials

The Fifth Edition of this legal guide to business planning builds on foundational business discussions by highlighting and explaining the planning implications of recent, unprecedented pro-business changes that have caused the small business optimism index to skyrocket to record-breaking levels. These changes include those arising from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015, recent SEC rulings and more. As explained in this new edition, these changes significantly impact many core planning challenges, including: choice-of-entity planning capital-raising challenges entity conversions buying and selling a business co-owner planning business transitions to the next-generation executive compensation business life insurance planning wealth diversification strategies and more.