Day 1 – December 7, 2021:
- Drafting the most important provisions of LLC operating agreements
- Planning for different types of capital contributions – capital v. services, current contributions v. future capital calls
- Management provisions depending on whether the LLC is member-managed v. manger-managed LLCs
- Fiduciary duties of members, modifications, and the “LLC opportunity doctrine”
- Restrictions on transfers of capital and profits interests
- Relationship between tax allocation and property distribution provisions, including IRC Section 704(b) accounting
Day 2 – December 8, 2021:
- Drafting allocation provisions for maximum tax benefit and to secure the safe harbor
- How “payments to member” (not distributions) are treated for financial v. tax purposes
- Drafting ordinary distributions, minimum tax distributions, waterfall distributions, liquidating distributions
- Rights of first refusal, rights of first offer, buy-sell provisions – understanding the alphabet soup of exit alternatives
- Liquidations of the entity and sale of an individual member’s interests
Faculty: Paul Kaplun, Venable LLP, Washington, D.C.