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...Both sides can then benefit if investors put a premium on companies incorporated there....
...Texas has recently sought to position itself as a rival to Delaware’s business-friendly reputation....
...Then, a mere 10 hours before the bankruptcy filing, a company lawyer changed the address of the shell corporation to a post office box in Houston....
...A hard-to-replicate combination of decades of legal precedent and an established legal community make the state attractive to corporations....
...But that’s not the only reason corporations love it. It’s also because of how long it’s been in operation....
...Others such as Nevada and Texas also compete in this arena, but Delaware had first-mover advantage using a low-fee, high-volume business model....
...Last month Lynas announced it would build a rare earths processing plant in Texas, with Blue Line Corporation....
...According to IBM, “SAGE spun off a large number of technological innovations that IBM incorporated into other computer products.”...
...In a speech in June the Texas senator accused China of seeking to “weaponise” investments in US companies....
...The UK-based engineering group is in talks to sell its automotive division, a huge part of its business, to US rival Dana Incorporated. Full story here....
...This was 1934, and the Polaroid Corporation was formed three years later....
...A Texas jury has ordered Apple to pay damages totalling half a billion dollars to a little-known company that has claimed that the iTunes store violated its patents....
...The first incorporated in Missouri in 1853, the second in Kansas two decades later. There is a fierce rivalry dating from the civil war....
...And then there’s the Stanford Development Corporation (the identikit website of which is still in the replication tank). SDC is a real estate development company....
...Since the Blackstone filing, scarcely a week has gone by without a mega-buy by KKR. Last week, it teamed up with Clayton Dubilier & Rice to buy Ahold’s US Foodservice division for $7bn....
...“It was a realisation that non-profit organisations have equally challenging business needs and issues as for-profit corporations,” she says....
...The touchstone must be how best to protect investors, not corporations or trial lawyers.”...
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