This text for law students who have taken no previous courses in business features an ongoing example of a restaurant from opening to closing, charting legal issues as the restaurant changes from sole proprietorship to partnership, corporation, limited partnership, and limited liability company. The text also provides a perspective on how the structure of a business affects the ability of its owners to make money from business operations and from the sale of ownership interests. The text begins with basic business principles for law students, basic concepts of agency law, and an intro to various legal structures available to business owners. Chapters are then devoted to each type of legal structure for a business, with several chapters on corporation structure, law, and operations. Other areas covered are corporate finance, securities regulation and dividends, and mergers and acquisitions. Cases, questions, and problems are included. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
