Using LLCs to Protect Assets

Presented by National Business Institute

Program Description

Protect Clients' Assets From an LLC's Creditors and Legal Liabilities

How strong is an LLC's liability protection? What simple mistakes can leave your clients vulnerable to creditors - and how can you prevent them from happening? Review the major elements of LLC structure, spot key pitfalls and prepare your clients' asset protection plans to minimize mistakes and threat of personal exposure. Register today!

• Get an in-depth look at the elements and factors courts consider in piercing the LLC veil.
• Learn what safeguards you can put into place to prevent veil piercing.
• Ensure LLCs are properly capitalized to meet third party obligations.
• Avoid top attorney mistakes that leave LLCs and their members and managers vulnerable.
• Understand the tax and liability implications of various decisions.
• Explore creative ways to mitigate risk when forming an LLC to purchase real estate.
• Gain best practices for structuring LLC operating agreement provisions.

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for attorneys. Accountants and paralegals may also benefit.

Course Content

1. LLC Veil Piercing and the Alter Ego Theory
2. Structuring and Funding the LLC: Advanced Asset Protection Strategies
3. Forming an LLC to Purchase Real Estate
4. Taxation, Reporting Traps and Tips
5. Additional Strategies
6. Ethical Considerations

Speakers

• Chadwick A. McTighe, Member (Partner), Stites & Harbison PLLC, Louisville office, Chair of the firm’s Business Litigation Service Group and Co-Chair of the Class Action Practice Team
• Gary A. Forster, Managing partner and co-founder, ForsterBoughman
• Henry J. Geha III, attorney, Marshall & Melhorn, LLC, Toledo office
• Neal B. Jannol, sole practitioner, Law Office of Neal B. Jannol, Los Angeles

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