A look into the practices of fund managers based on a survey of 79 private equity firms.

By Maria Contreras-Sweet, Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration.

With apologies to baseball and your mother’s apple pie, nothing is more American than National Small Business Week.

Delaware General Corporation Law (GCL) provisions allow a corporation to validate corporate acts that would otherwise be invalid due to a failure to comply with a provision of the GCL or a governing corporate document. Recently, the Delaware Chancery Court published an opinion giving us some much anticipated guidance on the new provisions.

By Sandra B. Feldman, Publications Attorney for CT Corporation.

By Sandra B. Feldman, Publications Attorney for CT Corporation. 

Twitter co-founder and Jelly CEO Biz Stone explains how becoming a benefit corporation changes the definition of value for shareholders.

Incorporating your small business before January 1, 2015 may yield an astonishing result when you sell the stock in the future. If you meet all the requirements, you won't have to pay any tax on the gain from the sale!

Increased expensing limits, bonus depreciation, special expensing election for restaurants and retail stores and the 100 percent exclusion of gain from small business stock were among the more than 50 expired tax provisions that were retroactively extended through 2014 by the "Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014," which passed the Senate on December 16 and is on the way to the White House to be signed into law.

As 2014 draws to a close, CT reviews some of the key developments in tax and business law that will impact your business in the coming year.

Join the NYC Small Firm Center and CT Corporation on November 13 for a day-long symposium that highlights online and off-line strategies that solo practitioners and small firms can leverage to establish and grow their practices.