Program Details
2026-06-29 13:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-06-29 13:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ESTFocus on the design and negotiation of LLC operating agreements through a governance-focused lens, including formation and structural planning, tax-driven governance, manager-managed versus member managed structures, fiduciary duties and contractual modifications, voting thresholds, deadlock provisions, transfer restrictions, buy-sell arrangements, and exit rights.
Frank Ciatto
Stephanie Molyneaux 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm ESTExamine how LLC operating agreements are interpreted, enforced, and challenged in litigation, including judicial interpretation, governance disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims, books-and-records demands, enforcement of transfer restrictions, dissolution and other statutory remedies, and drafting insights informed by recent enforcement outcomes.
David Feinberg
Theodore RandlesFrank Ciatto is a Co-Chair of Venable LLP’s Corporate Practice Group, based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and New York offices. Frank is a business attorney who assists entrepreneurs with existing and new business ventures, focusing on corporate and partnership structuring, mergers and acquisitions, limited liability companies, private equity investments, tax and accounting issues, business divorces, and succession planning. He drafts and negotiates key business documents and serves as corporate counsel to entrepreneurs and individual investors across a wide range of industries.
Stephanie Molyneaux is Counsel at Venable LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, where she advises clients in a wide variety of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and commercial contracts. Stephanie also counsels on reorganizations, restructurings, transactional disputes, and related business planning matters. She has vast experience drafting and negotiating complex limited liability company agreements, partnership agreements, stockholders’ agreements, buy-sell agreements, executive employment agreements, and other contractual arrangements.
Dave Feinberg is a Partner at Venable LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He is a trial attorney and litigator who handles a wide array of disputes, including environmental, commercial, construction, real estate, landlord/tenant, consumer protection, and insurance litigation. Dave also specializes in trials and litigation concerning high-stakes challenges to proposed projects, including critical energy infrastructure, and has extensive experience litigating against agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He has defended some of the United States’ largest companies against government investigations and litigation alleging environmental harm, consumer harm, or cybersecurity deficiencies, and oversees internal investigations.
Ted Randles is a Partner at Venable LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and a commercial trial lawyer for veterans and their businesses. Ted draws on his background as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer to provide veteran-owned and operated businesses with no-nonsense strategic advice and aggressive representation. He draws on a vast range of experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants, from case initiation to trial and appeal in federal and state courts, with subject-matter knowledge spanning business and partnership disputes, contract disputes, insurance disputes, tort claims, oil and gas litigation, antitrust claims, and complex bankruptcies.
Frank Ciatto is a Co-Chair of Venable LLP’s Corporate Practice Group, based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and New York offices. Frank is a business attorney who assists entrepreneurs with existing and new business ventures, focusing on corporate and partnership structuring, mergers and acquisitions, limited liability companies, private equity investments, tax and accounting issues, business divorces, and succession planning. He drafts and negotiates key business documents and serves as corporate counsel to entrepreneurs and individual investors across a wide range of industries.
Stephanie Molyneaux is Counsel at Venable LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, where she advises clients in a wide variety of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and commercial contracts. Stephanie also counsels on reorganizations, restructurings, transactional disputes, and related business planning matters. She has vast experience drafting and negotiating complex limited liability company agreements, partnership agreements, stockholders’ agreements, buy-sell agreements, executive employment agreements, and other contractual arrangements.
Dave Feinberg is a Partner at Venable LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He is a trial attorney and litigator who handles a wide array of disputes, including environmental, commercial, construction, real estate, landlord/tenant, consumer protection, and insurance litigation. Dave also specializes in trials and litigation concerning high-stakes challenges to proposed projects, including critical energy infrastructure, and has extensive experience litigating against agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He has defended some of the United States’ largest companies against government investigations and litigation alleging environmental harm, consumer harm, or cybersecurity deficiencies, and oversees internal investigations.
Ted Randles is a Partner at Venable LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and a commercial trial lawyer for veterans and their businesses. Ted draws on his background as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer to provide veteran-owned and operated businesses with no-nonsense strategic advice and aggressive representation. He draws on a vast range of experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants, from case initiation to trial and appeal in federal and state courts, with subject-matter knowledge spanning business and partnership disputes, contract disputes, insurance disputes, tort claims, oil and gas litigation, antitrust claims, and complex bankruptcies.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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