Ultimate Book of Forming Corps, LLCs, Partnerships & Sole Proprietorships [Paperback]

Michael Spadaccini (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2004

The book helps determine the best business structure to allow principles to devote more time and energy to running the business successfully and avoiding potential financial risk.

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From the Back Cover

Protect Your Assets--Structure Your Business for Success

Whether you're contemplating launching your own venture, have just started up, or have been in business for years, you'll be amazed at the important role that business ownership structures play. Selecting the appropriate structure for your business can spell the difference between success and failure over the long haul. What was appropriate a few years ago may now put you and your business in jeopardy.

Find answers to questions, such as:

When is sole proprietorship a good choice?

What are the repercussions of forming a corporation vs. a LLC?

What are the different types of partnerships?

Get up to speed with this comprehensive guide. Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of each structure, then select from a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or LLC based on what's right for your situation. Use the tools to plan, organize, form, operate and maintain a business entity.

You'll get tips on how to:

• Clarify fundamental legal principles for business formation
• Access state-specific information covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia
• Walk step-by-step through every part of the process
• Speak the lingo using the complete business law glossary

Structure your venture for success using these proven insider tips and insights from experienced business law attorney Michael Spadaccini. These lessons are too expensive to learn the hard way!

About the Author

Michael Spadaccini practices business and corporate law; Securities/SEC compliance, 1933 and 1934 Securities Act filings, registration statements, annual and quarterly periodic filings, private offerings and financing transactions, merger, acquisition, and purchase transaction counseling and drafting; and Domestic and International Trademark development, enforcement, litigation and licensing. He's the author of The Complete Corporate Guide: Incorporate in Any State, and he lives in San Diego, CA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press; 1 edition (March 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932156682
• ISBN-13: 978-1932156683
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,061,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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53 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best General Form Book Out There Today!, June 21, 2004

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Timothy (Lansing, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ultimate Book of Forming Corps, LLCs, Partnerships & Sole Proprietorships (Paperback)

I recently purchased a copy of Entrepreneur Magazine's "Ultimate Book on Forming: Corporations, LLC's, Sole Proprietorships, and Partnerships." I am currently taking a business planning course in law school. This book is not just helpful; it is an invaluable tool in helping students and practitioners organize and draft their business planning documents.

First, this book contains a number of business planning documents, ranging from general partnership agreements to board meeting minutes to corporate bylaws. More importantly, this book recognizes the growing trend across the country to provide clients with easily readable and understandable documents that are actually written in plain English and not the traditional "legalese" that has bogged legal documents for centuries. While I ultimately had to tailor my projects to the particular state and its law, I used several of these documents as a starting point for class projects this term. As a result, I never felt "in the dark" when organizing or drafting any of my projects because everything I needed to know was right there in the book.

Second, in addition to providing the legal forms, this book does an excellent job of explaining the different types of business organizations, how a person forms and operates these organizations, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Many students in law school take a general business organizations course, but this book does an excellent job of explaining each to the layperson who may or may not be familiar with the types of entities and their nuances. But both the student and layperson can benefit from the "insider tips" that divulge secrets of the business law trade, which can only be learned through years of experience.

Finally, the last section of this book provides state reference tables that gives detailed summaries of the law for each of the fifty (50) states and the District of Columbia.

In conclusion, I have been scanning the book shelves of my local book stores for a comprehensive, but easy to read, book on drafting legal business planning documents that didn't break the bank, and now I finally found it with Mr. Spadaccini's book. Not since reading the DaVinci Code have I recommended a book so often to my friends and colleagues at school. While not as thrilling as the Code, it is definitely an invaluable resource for the student, the experienced practitioner, and the layperson looking for assistance when forming a business.

-- TBP

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Book is more than worth it!!, July 17, 2004

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J. R. Smith/Realty Control, PLLC (DFW Metroplex/Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ultimate Book of Forming Corps, LLCs, Partnerships & Sole Proprietorships (Paperback)

It has been great and I have used some of the info to set up my single-member PLLC in Texas for my Real Estate Broker License that I recently reactivated. I also recommended the book to a real estate mentoring/investment group I am involved with. I was struggling with some of the concepts on an LLC until I read this book, it puts it all into perspective. I have corresponded with the author via email, he is very responsive. You will get real "go-by" documents that you can modify on WORD and actully put to use! A definte must if you are taking those first bold steps into your own business venture and want to protect your asssssets!

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Forming a business? GET THIS BOOK., July 13, 2004

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Randall Scott (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ultimate Book of Forming Corps, LLCs, Partnerships & Sole Proprietorships (Paperback)

There may be a lot of scattered information available on the Internet, but Michael Spadaccini delivers all you need to form your business into a convenient all-in-one book.

I'm forming an LLC, and without the guidance in this book, it could cost a lot more money (and time I can't spare) for all the research and legalities involved. Use his experience, step-by-step guides and forms to get where you want to be. Well worth the purchase.