So, about professional wrestling… It’s hardly immune to the vicissitudes of the business world, particularly when we’re talking about a publicly traded company ($88/share) with a...
--> The 21st Century's third (by our count) Trial of the Century starts today: The US v. Elizabeth Holmes. Holmes was the founder and CEO of...
Capital Structure-Debt vs. Equity Generally speaking, corporations raise capital through debt or equity or a combination of both. Equity investments—the purchase of shares issued by the...
Choosing the Business Entity The selection of a type of business ownership is a decision that a person should make, in consultation with an attorney and...
What is stock in a corporation? Capital Stock The defining characteristic of a corporate legal structure is that its ownership is in the form of stock....
Elsewhere on this website and blog post, we have argued that majority shareholders and corporations owe fiduciary duties to minority shareholders in the context of a...
Corporations are so ubiquitous that it is surprising that they are a relatively recent legal development. Here is a history of the development of the Texas...
Ownership interests in a for-profit corporation must be evidenced by a share certificate, unless otherwise provided by the governing documents of the corporation or by resolution...
What is a corporation? How is it different from a partnership? What are the legal obligations? Attributes of the corporate entity The corporate structure allows the...
Texas law recognizes “the property right which a share in such a company creates.” Yeaman v. Galveston City Co., 167 S.W. 710, 719 (Tex. 1914). In...
