To understand the Limited Partnership Agreement, one must first understand the limited partnership. Similar to the general partnership, the limited partnership consists of one or more general partners and one or more limited partners. The general partners act as would be expected. On the positive side, they manage and control the partnership, [...]

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Companies design Equity Incentive Plans (”Plans”) to provide key, upper-level employees an equity interest in the company. The purpose of these plans is to motivate these employees to perform their best tie these employees’ financial futures to the stock price of the company. As any transactional attorney knows, often the “Definitions” section of [...]

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A Plan and Agreement for Merger is a legal document laying out the parameters for a merger between two corporations. In the Agreement, the corporation being consumed by the larger corporation is referred to as the “merged corporation”, and the larger corporation is called the “surviving corporation.” This contract usually begins with a [...]

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It happens from time to time that even banks do not have enough money. A lender may make a loan request that one single bank cannot handle, either because it does not have the funds or because to make such a loan would put the bank outside its legal lending limits. The solution [...]

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Properly thought out and managed trademark license arrangements can be win-win opportunities for all parties, including the public. The document that goes a long way toward realizing this opportunity is the trademark license agreement. This agreement is a written contract in which the holder of a trademark (licensor) grants the revocable right to [...]

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An engagement agreement is a written agreement in which two parties contract for the provision of goods and/or services. One party provides the good or service, the other party receives and pays for it. Exactly who, what, when, where, and why are all matters left to the parties. Not to sound too [...]

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This article will cover the key provisions of an agreement to distribute filmed entertainment, usually made between a producer or licensor (”Producer”) of a motion picture and a distributor (”Distributor”). These agreements are critical to the process of filmmaking; without them, films would not be viewed by the public.
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This provision covers the specifications of [...]

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In the rapidly developing open-source world of the Internet, it is currently in vogue for company’s to forge partnerships whereby one company, a software developer, contributes software code to another company’s platform. This code is often in the form of an “add-on application” that allows users to install applications on top of their originally [...]

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An Assignment and Assumption Agreement is a relatively compact legal document, generally, whereby two parties agree that one party, the assignor, will assign another party, the assignee, all of its rights, obligations, interests, and responsibilities existing pursuant to another Agreement. By virtue of the Assignment and Assumption Agreement, the Assignee takes the place of [...]

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Ever since the Internet came of age in the mid 1990s, advertising deals have become extremely common. As we all know, companies advertise on the Internet through the usage of banners and through search engines such as Yahoo and Google in an effort to drive users to their websites. This article will analyze [...]

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