When do you want to use limited partnerships? When would you use a limited partnership as opposed to just a limited liability company or another form of asset structure? Join this 1h program to explore asset structures, governance and compliance, investor safeguards, technological influences, and international impacts. Be across actionable strategies for effectively managing legal frameworks, risk mitigation, and protecting client interests. This program is a comprehensive solution to understanding the successful us of limited partnerships.
Chair
Blair Franklin, Partner, Holmden Horrocks
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
A Practical Guide to Limited Partnerships
- When do you want to use this asset structure?
- When would you use a limited partnership as opposed to just a limited liability company or another form of asset structure?
- Regulatory changes
- Governance and compliance: the roles and responsibilities of general partners, reporting standards, and measures to prevent fraudulent activities within partnerships
- Investor protections: the rights and protections of limited partners
- Measures to elevate investor protections, legal remedies available to limited partners, and discussions on fiduciary duties owed by general partners
- The impact of technology: AI, digital platforms & cybersecurity risks faced by partnerships
- International partnerships and trade
- Financing structures, risk management strategies, and legal compliance frameworks
Presented by Laura Monahan, Director, McCaw Lewis
Learning Objectives:
- Gain practical knowledge on when and why to use limited partnerships
- Gain insight into regulatory changes, roles, responsibilities, and compliance measures
- Explore the impact of technology, cybersecurity risks, international partnerships, trade considerations, financing structures, risk management strategies, and legal compliance frameworks of limited partnerships
Presenters
Laura Monahan, Director, McCaw Lewis
Laura leads a team of talented lawyers in the firm’s commercial law area. Laura has extensive experience in commercial law, and advises clients on a wide variety of business matters including limited partnerships, ownership arrangements including shareholders’ agreements and share sales and purchases, negotiating and preparing commercial contracts, commercial property matters, commercial lease arrangements, Financial Markets Conduct Act issues, Overseas Investment Act matters, construction contracts and business sales and purchases. More recently, Laura has moved towards particular specialisation in the area of Māori commercial matters, assisting iwi clients to establish post settlement governance entities and make arrangements to best manage iwi assets. She enjoys working with our commercial clients to help them meet their business goals, priding herself on keeping things simple and understandable. Prior to joining McCaw Lewis, Laura worked in the corporate and commercial team at a large Auckland law firm, before moving to London to work as in-house legal counsel for a healthcare company. Giving back to the community she grew up in is important to Laura, and she is on the boards of the Waikato Family Centre Trust and the Waikato Diocesan School for Girls Old Girls Association Committee. She has recently established a local networking group for women in business in the Waikato together with Stacey Martin from BNZ Hamilton and Jan Gatley from PwC Hamilton. Outside of the workplace, she likes to spend time with her husband and two young daughters, keep fit at the gym or along the Waikato River trail, and have weekly Sunday barbecues with her sisters and parents. Laura was raised in Hamilton, returning here to join the firm in 2012, and was appointed as a Director of the firm in 2020.
