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 The best-selling Shareholders' Agreements: a Tax and Legal Guide is a practical, easy to read reference guide to the major business, financial, and tax considerations involved when structuring shareholders' agreements. The book has been revised since the last edition to take into account changing tax legislation and updates to common legal precedents such as:

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Shareholders' Agreements: a Tax and Legal Guide also includes boilerplate samples on the accompanying DVD. Working sample agreements and variable clauses will be included on the DVD for convenient agreement creation.

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Jack Bernstein is a Senior Tax Partner with the law firm of Aird & Berlis LLP and a CCH author. Jack is a leading practitioner in the areas of corporate tax and estate planning. He is a well-known lecturer with several professional associations and has written for a number of trade publications. Jack is the original author of the 1988 work.

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Steven Kelman and Dennis Miller are Partners with Aird & Berlis LLP's Corporate Finance group, practising in the areas of corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, debt and equity financings, and shareholders' agreements. Steven and Dennis have presented at a numbe

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Get the most accurate and current information on British Columbia securities legislation. Annotated British Columbia Securities Legislation, 9th Edition has been prepared in consultation with the British Columbia Securities Commission and the Vancouver office of McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

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Discusses the complex issues involving partnership taxation with utmost clarity. It uses hundreds of illustrative examples, practice observations, helpful charts and insightful explanations to make even the most difficult concepts understandable. The book reflects the authors' penchant for communicating the pertinent facts in very direct language and creating a context for understanding the multifaceted issues and applying them to practice.

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Authors: Jerome Ostrov, Kevin Kaiser, Robert Collins, John Bedosky

Covers important real estate tax law and estate planning issues. There are more than 200 examples that explain concepts that, because of complexity or other difficulties are hard to absorb in narrative form only.

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