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Contractual Anti-Dilution Clause in Shareholders Contract In this provision, the corporation agrees to the continued issuance of shares to investors so that those investors can keep the same proportion of ownership in the company that they already have.

The anti-dilution protection clause is basically given to existing shareholders when the company issues new shares due to subsequent rounds of funding at a lower rate than the price paid by existing investors.

Anti-dilution protection is a contractual right that prevents your ownership percentage in a company from decreasing when new shares are issued. For example, if you invest $1 million for 10% of a startup at a $10 million valuation, you own 1 million shares at $1 per share.

The term Anti Dilution essentially denotes that when a company receives a second round of funding at a price per share that is lesser than the price the shares fetched in the first round of funding, the first round investors by exercise of the anti-dilution clause are protected from the resultant stock dilution.

- Anti-Dilution - in order to prevent their ownership interest from being diluted by future issuances of shares, the owners may require that they be given the right to maintain their percentages of ownership by acquiring a proportional number of any new shares issued.

To protect the business' limited liability status: Operating agreements give members protection from personal liability to the LLC. Without this specific formality, your LLC can closely resemble a sole proprietorship or partnership, jeopardizing your personal liability.

Unlike the articles of organization, an operating agreement generally is not required in order to form an SMLLC, nor is it filed with the state. Instead, an operating agreement is optionalthough recommended. If you choose to have one, you'll keep it on file at your business's official location.

If there is no operating agreement, you and the co-owners will not be suitably equipped to reach any settlements concerning misunderstandings over management and finances. Worse still, your LLC will be required to follow any of your state's default operating conditions.

An LLC operating agreement does not need to be notarized.

The features of a typical LLC operating agreement include sanctions that can be imposed and other steps taken if you, as an owner, break the operating agreement. Possible sanctions range from a monetary penalty imposed on you to removing you as an owner of the LLC.