California Security Agreement regarding Member Interests in Limited Liability Company

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A Limited Liability Company ("LLC") is a separate legal entity that can conduct business just like a corporation with many of the advantages of a partnership. It is taxed as a partnership. Its owners are called members and receive income from the LLC just as a partner would. There is no tax on the LLC entity itself. The members are not personally liable for the debts and obligations of the entity like partners would be. Basically, an LLC combines the tax advantages of a partnership with the limited liability feature of a corporation. Management of an LLC is vested in its members. An operating agreement is executed by the members and operates much the same way a partnership agreement operates. Profits and losses are shared according to the terms of the operating agreement. Most, if not all, major loans involve creating a lien on the property. A lien on real estate would take the form of a mortgage or a deed of trust. A lien on all other property would be covered by a security agreement. In this agreement, the borrower in a loan transaction would give a security interest in personal property in order to secure payment of his loan or credit obligation. Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code deals with secured transactions. A creditor who complies with the requirements of Article 9 can create a security interest that protects him against the debtor's default by allowing the creditor to recover by selling the goods covered by the security interest.
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Under this definition, a membership interest in an LLC is a security for California law purposes unless all of the members are actively engaged in management. Thus, interests in a manager-managed LLC where not all members are managers are securities under California law.

Because the Agreement of Limited Partnership is considered an investment contract, the SEC classifies LP units as securities. If the partnership is sold to the public, then they must be registered under the Securities Act of 1933.

Under this definition, a membership interest in an LLC is a security for California law purposes unless all of the members are actively engaged in management. Thus, interests in a manager-managed LLC where not all members are managers are securities under California law.

Under most circumstances, an LLC interest is a general intangible, and the lender will perfect its security interest by filing an initial UCC financing statement in the state where the pledgor is located, which for an individual pledgor is the state of his/her principal residence and for a registered organization

A member's interest includes both a right to capital and income and also the obligation to manage the business1. The law is clear that non-members can have an interest in an LLP2 and so a member of an LLP can charge his membership interest. Conversely, a lender will not want to be responsible for running the LLP.

Hence, a general partnership interest is not necessarily or even typically securities unless the Animal Farm1 rule applies, i.e., some general partners have much greater power and/or control of the information so that the other general partners are seen more like relatively passive investors.

Limited liability partnership interests are typically securities, since, like in limited partnerships, LLP limited interests lack managerial powers and have limited liability.

A partnership can't grant a floating charge so lenders don't have the ease of taking security over assets under a debenture as they can with a company or LLP (the exception to this is if one of the partners is a company or LLP itself, in which case it can grant a floating charge over the assets it holds).

As a result, lenders desiring to secure their loans with an equity pledge (typically either in the borrower itself or its subsidiaries) are increasingly taking pledges of LLC membership interests as part of their collateral.

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