This is the description from our webinar that was presented in January 2017. Please check back for a modified description. Topics may be updated, but registration is now open.
Key issues for business entities include who, if anyone, has personal liability for the debts of the business and what is the impact of federal, state and local taxes on the business and its owners. Essential legal principles underlying creation and operation of borrower entities are also significant for lenders concerned with creating effective and enforceable loan documents.
This webinar presents a survey of requirements, characteristics, advantages, disadvantages plus creation and documentation issues for the most frequently used types of business entities.
Topics Will Include:
- Sole Proprietorships
- General Partnerships
- Limited Partnerships
- Limited Liability Partnerships
- C Corporations
- S Corporations
- Limited Liability Companies
- Series LLCs
- Real Estate Investment Trusts
- Cooperative Associations
- Professional Corporations
- Professional Associations
Who Should Attend?
This webinar is suitable for both lenders and account managers. It provides new bankers with essential information for understanding and managing business relationships. Experienced bankers will find it a valuable refresher course.
Instructor
Robin Russell has practiced law for 29 years and is licensed in Texas, New York and Massachusetts. She is a fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and of the American Law Institute. She combines a depth of experience in bankruptcy restructuring and litigation with financial transactions.
She has represented corporate debtors, independent directors, liquidating trustees, bondholders, unsecured creditors' committees, bank groups, private equity funds, landlords, trade creditors and bidders for estate assets in Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings. She has also represented banks, institutional lenders and corporate borrowers in commercial loan transactions and debt restructurings.
Robin is the principal author of Thomson Reuters’ Texas Practice Guides for both Creditors’ Rights and Financial Transactions and the Texas Bankers Association’s Texas Secured Lending Guide, Texas Problem Loan Guide, Texas Real Estate Lending Guide and Texas Account Documentation Guide.
She is a frequent speaker on banking, bankruptcy and financial restructuring related topics and has served as a Chapter 7 Trustee. Robin received her LL.M. in Banking Law from Boston University and her J.D. from Baylor University where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Baylor Law Review and the highest ranking graduate in her class. She clerked for the Texas Supreme Court before beginning her legal career.