Much like a bad marriage, if you choose the wrong entity for your business, getting out of it will be expensive and exhausting. In Mr. McBride’s two hour lecture, he will guide you through entity selection, the basics of partnership and everything that can go wrong, and how to plan ahead for both success and failure.
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Business Partnerships are Long-Term Relationships: Are You Ready For Yours? - 23709Faculty: R. Shawn McBride, Esq. Much like a bad marriage, if you choose the wrong entity for your business, getting out of it will be expensive and exhausting. In Mr. McBride’s two hour lecture, he will guide you through entity selection, the basics of partnership and everything that can go wrong, and how to plan ahead for both success and failure. Date: Online Credits: 2 $50 |
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NY CLE Credits: 2.0 Professional Practice
NJ CLE Credits: 2.0 General (Business and Trust Accounting)
Shawn McBride, Esq works with business owners that want to lay the foundation first and get their business going in the right direction or assess where they are and set the stage for a brighter future of their business. His goal is to educate his clients so that they understand the law and can make good decisions. As founder and Managing Member of The R. Shawn McBride Law Office, P.L.L.C., he has guided the Firm to be business focused – after all, Shawn was exposed to the business world first completing college degrees in Accounting and Business Administration (concentration: Finance) and passing the CPA exam prior to helping his first legal client. The Firm’s mission is to protect business owners. Shawn is commonly involved, at some level or another, in most Firm client matters, which usually includes protecting business owners in some way, shape or form. It might include looking at buy-sell arrangements for a client that owns part of a business to protect their longterm wealth. Or it might include helping a company successfully bring in investors.
When not working on client matters, Shawn oversees daily operations, business development, and client management for the entire Firm. He also heads the Dallas office and has managerial and administrative responsibility over that office. Over the course of his career, he has served in a wide variety of complex transactions at three large law firms he worked at prior to launching The R. Shawn McBride Law Office, P.L.L.C.
Shawn’s clients have been in a variety of industries, including internet, professional services, health care, real estate, agriculture, food processing, financial services, private equity, and heavy industry. While the Firm has expanded, so have Shawn’s qualifications to practice law. He is currently licensed to practice law in 12 states and the District of Columbia.
Shawn earned his J.D. from the University of Maryland Law School in 2002, with honors, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Delta Phi (Awards & Recognition: G. Ridgely Sappington Prize for Civil Procedure; Judge Morton P. Fisher Memorial Prize for Federal Income Taxation). Shawn earned his BS in Finance and Accounting from Towson University (summa cum laude; Graduate of Honors College; Beta Gamma Sigma).
Shawn still has an inactive Maryland CPA license. Because of his background and knowledge of business law, he is often called upon to speak on business law topics or write articles on business topics. He has been quoted multiple times, including in the Wall Street Journal.