The Transactional Document Guide for Business Organizations

The Transactional Document Guide for Business Organizations familiarizes students with the basic forms and documents used in the life cycle of a business and illustrates how the law is applied in practice. This text provides readers with full-length documents that have been selected for their readability.

Organized into three primary sections covering corporations, general partnerships, and hybrid entities, the supplemental text features 15 documents in total that provide examples of partnership agreements, articles of organization, certificates of merger and dissolution, proxy statements, and more.

The second edition has been revised to feature document examples from Facebook, rather than McDonalds, including such documents as Facebook's articles of incorporation, bylaws, and proxy statement. Additionally, the third section includes a new Statement of Dissociation, Statement of Dissolution, and Application to Register Limited Liability Partnership.

The Transactional Document Guide for Business Organizations is an excellent supplemental textbook for foundational courses in business organization and business planning.

Donald Scotten earned his law degree at the College of William and Mary and his LL.M. in taxation at New York University. A former senior counsel for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., and senior associate at Howrey LLP, he is now the vice dean for administration and a professor of the practice of law at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law. Professor Scotten teaches courses on business organizations, mergers and acquisitions, and the United States legal system. His professional writing has appeared in Business Law Today, a journal of the American Bar Association.