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Legal updates from Business Law Attorney J. Christopher Erb of MacElree Harvey, Ltd.
The internet is is a social-media driven marketing platform, driven by technologies which seek to move consumers to specific branded content and humans who try to corral that technology as best they can. Billions of dollars are spent in the chase to build an online brand, and those brands are feverishly protected. What happens, then,Continue reading “That social media account is valuable, until you try to transfer it.”
As part of our short series on forming a US corporation, it’s important to understand the management structure, since there are significant differences between those structures in Germany (and many other countries) and the US. First, we’ll start with the shareholders and board of directors. Shareholders The Shareholders are the owners of the company (Aktionäre)Continue reading “Shareholder and Board of Directors”
One of the most important steps in the formation of a new company is the application for an Employment Information Number (EIN, or also FEIN). The EIN is a unique nine-digit number assigned by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to business entities operating in the United States. Originally, the EIN was limited to reporting employment-relatedContinue reading “Obtaining your company’s US tax number”
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Chris Erb is a corporate transactional lawyer in the US, working with companies across the world on business, internet, information technology, and other tech law issues.
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