Prof Alan Madry from USA talks about Setting up legal entities for new ventures
The choice of a legal entity to own and operate a new enterprise, and to what extent to finance with equity or debt, is a crucial decision at the beginning of any venture. It can affect the allocation of risks from the venture, the structure of management and the sharing of profits.
Prof Alan Madry from Marquette University Law School, USA gave a talk on "Setting up legal entities for new ventures" on 17th November 2011 Thursday. His talk explored the contrasting use of sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporations of varying types, as well as combinations of these entities along with contracts and property rights as the legal vehicles for organizing and financing a new venture
About the speaker:Prof Alan Madry
Professor Madry is a professor of law at Marquette University Law School since 1990. Prior to joining the faculty of law at Marquette, he was the Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he was associated with the Wharton Real Estate Center. Following law school, he clerked for judge John Feikens, Chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and Judge Pierce Lively of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
He has been a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer at the University Of Chicago Law School, an associate with the Detroit-based law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, where he practiced in the areas of real estate and real estate finance, and Associate General Counsel to Wayne State University.