Corporations

Do you want to make money while promoting clean and green practices? Are you promoting employment of disadvantaged people? A Public Benefit Corporation (“PBC”) in Delaware, which some refer to as a B-corporation, is a new type of corporate structure. It is a for-profit business that has a stated “public interest” purpose set out in […]

Choosing a Name For Your LLC When checking the name on the Division of Corporation’s website, the corporate ending should be dropped. A name can be considered in conflict with another entity type if the root is identical; whether the conflicting name is an LLC, corporation, LP, GP, LLP, Statutory Trust or any other entity […]

Can You Form a Delaware LLC If You Don’t Live in the U.S.? You do not need to be a US Citizen to be a member of a Delaware LLC. A Delaware LLC can be owned entirely by foreigners outside the United States. Alternatively, the Delaware LLC can be owned by a foreign corporation or […]

How to Go From a Corporation to a PBC First, the decision to change from a traditional corporation to a PBC must be adopted in the annual meeting minutes of stockholders by a two-thirds vote in favor and through a unanimous action by the directors of the corporation. A PBC is not a different legal […]

LLC Charging Order: Two-Way Protection Unlike many other states, one key benefit of the Delaware LLC not available to corporations in any state is that the Delaware LLC also offers a second type of protection: the “reverse shield.” Choosing to form a Delaware LLC creates a two-way shield. Unlike the traditional shield, the reverse shield […]