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Library of Congress Subject Headings

Introduction
This guide is meant to be an aid for locating close corporation materials, including books, looseleafs, periodicals, and laws. This is a selective list of resources.

Library of Congress Subject Headings (Suggested subject headings for catalog subject searches)
CLOSE CORPORATIONS
CLOSE CORPORATIONS--ACCOUNTING
*CLOSE CORPORATIONS--( )
CLOSE CORPORATIONS--FINANCE
CLOSE CORPORATIONS--FINANCE--HANDBOOKS MANUALS ETC
CLOSE CORPORATIONS--MANAGEMENT
CLOSE CORPORATIONS--( )--FORMS
CLOSE CORPORATIONS--TAXATION
CLOSE CORPORATIONS--TAXATION--( )
CLOSE CORPORATIONS--( )--FINANCE
CLOSE CORPORATIONS--( )--FORMS
CLOSE CORPORATIONS--VALUATION-- ( )
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE--LAW AND LEGISLATION--( )
CORPORATION LAW--( )
FAMILY CORPORATIONS --( )
FAMILY CORPORATIONS--TAXATION
FAMILY CORPORATIONS--( )--POPULAR WORKS
STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENTS CLOSE CORPORATIONS--( )
STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENTS CLOSE CORPORATIONS---( )--FORMS
*Parentheses indicate individual country or state entries. Most subjects have a Minnesota subheading.

Statutes, Codes & Uniform Laws

  • Corporations and Other Business Associations Statutes, Rules and Forms (2004) (KF1413.A39 C667).

  • Internal Revenue Code (1954-) (LAW LOOSE LEAF SERVICES KF6276.55 A19 U55; WESTLAW FTX-IRSPUBS; LEXIS FEDTAX library, CODE file.) Index. Amendments in U.S. Code Congressional and Administrative News pamphlets.

  • Internal Revenue Bulletin: Cumulative Bulletin (1968-) (LAW LOOSELEAF SERVICES KF6301 A55 U652; WESTLAW FTX-CB; LEXIS FEDTAX library, CB file.).

  • Model Business Corporation Act Annotated: Revised Model Business Corporation Act 1984)...Close Corporation Supplement, With Official Comments and Reporter's Annotations /adopted by Committee on Corporate Laws of the Section of Corporation, Banking & Business Law, American Bar Association (Looseleaf) (Reserve KF1414 A745 1985).

  • United States. Internal Revenue Service, Federal Tax Regulations (1954-) (LAW LOOSELEAF SERVICES KF6276.99 U64, most recent 5 years, and LAW US (OBSOLETE) SECOND FLOOR; WESTLAW IRSPUBS; LEXIS FEDTAX library.) Kept up to date through U.S. Code Congressional and Administrative News.

  • U.S. Tax Code On-Line (http:www.fourmilab.ch/ustax/ustax.html).

  • State Corporation Statutes are included in the individual state statutes on the Reserve Shelves, Plaza level of the Law Library, as well as the INCORP library, CORPORATION/LTD PARTNERSHIP files on LEXIS, and on WESTLAW, STAT-ALL or state abbreviation-ST.

Law Reviews & Other Periodicals

  • American Business Law Journal (1963-) (PER A575 & WESTLAW BUS-TP). Indexed in Index to Legal Periodicals, Legal Resource Index, Current Law Index.

  • Corporate Practice Commentator (1959-) (PER C6763).

  • Columbia Business Law Review (1986-)(PER C6435 & WESTLAW BUS-TP & LEXIS INCORP library).

  • Corporation Journal (1915-) (PER C6766).

  • Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (1976-) (PER D44 & WESTLAW BUS-TP & LEXIS INCORP library). Indexed in Current Law Index.

  • DePaul Business Law Journal (1989-) (PER D457 & WESTLAW BUS-TP).

    Journal of Corporation Law (1975-) (PER J698 & WESTLAW BUS-TP).

  • Journal of Corporate Taxation (1974-) (PER J697).

  • Review of Litigation (1980-) (PER R491).

  • Securities Regulation Law Journal (1973-) (PER S424). Indexed in Legal Resource Index.

General legal periodicals also contain articles on close corporations. The basic legal periodical indexes (Index to Legal Periodicals, Current Law Index, Legaltrac, LRI, JLR, and TP-ALL on Westlaw, and LAWREV library and LGLIND file on LEXIS) can be used to access citations to all the journals listed. Some are available full-text on LEXIS and WESTLAW.

Treatises, Looseleafs, Nutshells & Restatements

  • American Law Institute, Principles of Corporate Governance: Analysis and Recommendations (1994-) (RESERVE KF1422 P75 1994 and WESTLAW ALI-CORPGOV).

  • R. Franklin Balloti, The Delaware Law of Corporations and Business Organizations: Text, Forms, Law (1997-)(RESERVE KFD213 .B35 & WESTLAW DELCBO).

  • BNA'S Corporate Counsel Weekly (1986-) (LOOSELEAF KF1410 C673). The daily version is on WESTLAW, BNA-CCD & LEXIS BNA library, BNACCD file.

  • Aspen Law & Business, Corporation (1930-)(LOOSELEAF KF1410.C68X).

    Arthur M. Borden, Going Private (1982-) (KF1414 .B66 1982).

  • Irving M. Grant & William R. Christian, Subchapter S Taxation (3rd ed. 1991-) (KF6491 G7 1991 & WESTLAW SUBSTAX).

  • Robert W. Hamilton, The Law of Corporations in a Nutshell (5th ed. 2000) (RESERVE KF1414.3 H35 2000).

  • Edwin T. Hood et al., Closely Held Corporations in Business and Estate Planning (1998-) (KF1466 H63 1998).

  • Marvin T. Hyman, Corporation Forms (1992-) (LOOSELEAF KF1410 H96X).

  • John H. Matheson & Philip S. Garon, Minnesota Practice: Corporation Law and Practice (2nd ed. 2004) (RESERVE and REFERENCE OFFICE KFM5480 M53 v.18-19).

  • Theodore Ness & Eugene L. Vogel, Taxation of the Closely Held Corporation (5th ed. 1991-2000) (KF6484 N47 1991).

  • F. Hodge O'Neal & Robert B. Thompson, O'Neal's Oppression of Minority Shareholders: Protecting Minority Rights in Squeeze-outs and other Intracorporate Conflicts (2nd ed. 1985-2003) (KF1448 O5 1985).

  • F. Hodge O'Neal & Robert B. Thompson, O'Neal and Thompson's Close Corporations and LLCs: Law and Practice (3rd ed. 2004-) KF1466 .O521x)

  • William H. Painter, Painter on Close Corporations: Corporate, Securities, and Tax Aspects (3rd ed. 1991-1999) (KF1466 P35 1991).

  • Practicing Law Institute, Acquiring or Selling the Privately Held Company (1986-) (KF1466.Z9 A26)

Law Reporters, Citators & Legal Encyclopedias

  • American Law Reports. ALR 2nd-5th,and Federal: Annotations and Cases (1969-) (REPORTERS KF132 A478, LAW CORE 4 147.F4). Available on WESTLAW and LEXIS.

  • Corpus Juris Secundum: A Complete Restatement of the Entire American Law as Developed by all Reported Cases (1936-) (REFERENCE KF154 C56, CORE 4 110.C67)

  • American Jurisprudence: a Modern Comprehensive Text Statement of American Law, State and Federal (2nd ed. 1962-)(REFERENCE KF154 .A42, CORE 3 110.A43).

  • Shepard's Corporation Law Citations (1983-). (Reference KF1405.5S53 1983).

  • Shepard's Federal Tax Citator (1995-) (REFERENCE KF6280.5S46).

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Publications

  • Continuing Legal Education, Minnesota State Bar Ass'n, Advanced Estate Planning: Transferring the Family Business (1995) (KF209 M54X 1995, No. 1204).

  • Continuing Legal Education, Minnesota State Bar Ass'n, Resolving Minority Shareholder Disputes (2005) (KF209.M54x 2005 no.114).

  • Amy E. Dahl, Asset & Stock Purchase Agreements: an Annotated Document (2005) (KF209.M54x 2005 no.44). 

  • Mark R. Geier, Buy/Sell & Share Purchase Agreement (2004) (KF209.M54x 2004 no.22).

  • Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, Closely Held Businesses (2001) (KF209.M55 2001 no. 69).


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