How do you keep your LLC protected?

5 steps for maintaining personal asset protection and avoiding piercing the corporate veilUndertaking necessary formalities.Documenting your business actions.Don't comingle business and personal assets.Ensure adequate business capitalization.Make your corporate or LLC status known.

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Security Agreement regarding Member Interests in Limited Liability...

Washington 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.

In California, shares of an LLC in which any member is not continuously actively involved in the management of the LLC would qualify as securities.

Under Division 8 of the California Commercial Code, an interest in an LLC is NOT a security unless: it is dealt in or traded on securities exchanges or in securities markets, its terms expressly provide that it is a security governed by this division, or. it is an investment company security.

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

The members of an LLC can decide how to operate the various aspects of the business by forming an operating agreement. An operating agreement is not required for an LLC to exist, and if there is one, it need not be in writing. LLC members should protect their interests by creating a written operating agreement.

Limited liability companies (LLCs) do not have stock, nor can they issue it. Despite this fact, LLCs may have advantages over corporations, depending on your particular business needs and goals.

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.

Those LLC members who operate the business owe the fiduciary duties of loyalty and reasonable care to the non-managing LLC owners. Depending upon your state, LLC members may be able to revise, broaden, or eliminate these fiduciary duties by contract or under the conditions of their LLC operating agreement.

What Is Limited Liability Protection? Limited liability protection means that if your company incurs legal liability, personal assets stay protected. The extent and nature of that protection varies from state to state, so you want to be sure to speak with an attorney to make sure that you get it right.

5 steps for maintaining personal asset protection and avoiding piercing the corporate veilUndertaking necessary formalities.Documenting your business actions.Don't comingle business and personal assets.Ensure adequate business capitalization.Make your corporate or LLC status known.