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Lexis Nexis CSC® Texas Laws Governing Business Entities
This annotated collection allows you to easily access critical business entity law. You'll find statutes and forms that you need to transact business.
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CSC brings you Texas Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated, 2019 Edition. This book helps you to conduct research more effectively, complete transactions more efficiently, and better advise your clients. You'll find all the statutes and forms that you need to transact business in the Lone Star State.
FEATURES:
- All statutes covering Texas business entities and related sections updated through the 2019 Legislative Session
- Over 100 newly enacted or amended sections, including changes to the laws covering electronic storage of business records, delayed effectiveness of filing instruments, written voting agreements, derivative proceedings, and dissent and appraisal rights
- Gain insight with a summary of legislative activity prepared by noted attorney Byron Egan of Jackson Walker L.L.P.
- Over 250 new case notes from state and federal courts interpreting Texas business law
- Five full-text cases cover recent developments in Texas law concerning service of process on a corporation, derivative claims, alter ego doctrine, successor entities, and membership in an LLC
- New in 2019: an easy-to-reference Fee Schedule listing filing fees for many business documents
- New in 2019: access more than 70 recently updated forms for incorporation/formation, qualification, mergers, dissolution, and name reservation for all Texas entity types via our online download center (as well as on the companion CD-ROM)
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Authors / Contributors
Byron F. Egan
Byron F. Egan
Byron F. Egan is a partner of Jackson Walker L.L.P. in Dallas. He is engaged in a corporate, partnership, securities, mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) and financing practice. Mr. Egan has extensive experience in business entity formation and governance matters, M&A and financing transactions in a wide variety of industries including energy, financial and technology.
In addition to handling transactions, he advises boards of directors and their audit, compensation and special committees with respect to fiduciary duty and other corporate governance issues, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, special investigation and other issues.
Mr. Egan is Senior Vice Chair and Chair of Executive Council of the ABA M&A Committee and served as Co-Chair of its Asset Acquisition Agreement Task Force, which wrote the Model Asset Purchase Agreement with Commentary. He has been Chair of the Texas Business Law Foundation, the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and that section’s Corporation Law Committee. On behalf of these groups, he has been instrumental in the drafting and enactment of many Texas business entity and other statutes. He is also a member of the American Law Institute.
Mr. Egan writes and speaks about the areas in which his law practice is focused. He is the author of the treatise EGAN ON ENTITIES: Corporations, Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies in Texas, which addresses the formation, governance and sale of business entities, including an analysis of the fiduciary duties of their governing persons in a variety of situations.
Mr. Egan received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Texas. After law school, he served as a law clerk for Judge Irving L. Goldberg on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
For over twenty-five years, Mr. Egan has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America under Corporate, M&A or Securities Law. He is the 2015 recipient of the Texas Bar Foundation’s Dan Rugeley Price Memorial Award, which is presented annually to a lawyer who has an unreserved commitment to clients and to the legal profession.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Senior Legal Advisors to CSC
Table of Sections Affected by 2019 Legislation
Table of New Annotations
Texas Fee Table
Special Commentary
2019 Texas Legislative Update
Summary of Full Text Cases
Business Organizations Code
Title 1. General Provisions
Title 2. Corporations
Title 3. Limited Liability Companies
Title 4. Partnerships
Title 5. Real Estate Investment Trusts
Title 6. Associations
Title 7. Professional Entities
Title 8. Miscellaneous and Transition Provisions
Business and Commerce Code
Title 1. Uniform Commercial Code
Chapter 1. General Provisions
Chapter 8. Investment Securities
Chapter 9. Secured Transactions
Civil Practice and Remedies Code
Title 2. Trial, Judgment, and Appeal [Selected sections]
Code of Criminal Procedure
Title 1. Code of Criminal Procedure of 1965
Chapter 17A. Corporations and Associations
Penal Code
Title 2. General Principles of Criminal Responsibility
Chapter 7. Criminal Responsibility for Conduct of Another [Selected sections]
Appendix A — Full-Text Texas Cases
Appendix B — List of Texas Business Entity Forms
Index
