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  2. Unincorporated entity - Wikipedia

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    The most common and traditional unincorporated entities are sole traders, partnerships, and trustees of trusts. Modern unincorporated entities include limited partnerships (but not incorporated limited partnerships), limited liability partnerships (but not UK Limited Liability Partnerships, which are corporations), Limited liability limited partnerships, and limited liability companies.

  3. Joint venture - Wikipedia

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    A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance.. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to access a new market, particularly emerging market; to gain scale efficiencies by combining assets and operations; to share risk for major investments or ...

  4. List of legal entity types by country - Wikipedia

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    Company with limited liability, (有限责任公司): ≈ Ltd. (UK). Corporation, corporated company, 股份有限公司 (Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī): ≈ plc (UK), joint-stock company, corporation. Other than companies, ordinary firms include other two types: (See also Partnership (China)) Sole trader 个人独资企业; Partnership ...

  5. Why Do Energy Companies Form Joint Ventures? - AOL

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    The company's most recent joint ventures include trading about a third of its emerging exploration acreage in two separate deals with foreign operators. Devon brought in about $4 billion in cash ...

  6. International joint venture - Wikipedia

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    Many ventures resolve this problem by forming a special purpose entity, usually a limited liability company or a corporation, which then acts as the general partner. [citation needed] A joint venture formed as limited liability company (LLC) offers protection to the partners by providing limited liability to all of its members. Unlike a limited ...

  7. Corporation - Wikipedia

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    In a joint-stock company, the members are known as shareholders, and each of their shares in the ownership, control, and profits of the corporation is determined by the portion of shares in the company that they own. Thus, a person who owns a quarter of the shares of a joint-stock company owns a quarter of the company, is entitled to a quarter ...

  8. Joint-stock company - Wikipedia

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    Provided sales and assets exist within the company, a joint-stock company is effectively a forum for three- party trading: Owners, i.e. shareholders, are seeking financial funds (profits) and offer economic assets, in the form of capital. Employees, contractors and other contracted parties seek compensation and offer labor for this.

  9. Limited liability company - Wikipedia

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    A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company. It is a business structure that can combine the pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability of a corporation . [ 1 ]