Partnership Law

Mark Blackett-Ord, Barrister, 5 Stone Buildings, is an advisor, arbitrator and advocate experienced in cases concerned with property, trusts, partnership, probate, ecclesiastical law and general Chancery litigation. He is a leading authority on the law of partnership including venture capital funds and other limited partnerships and LLPs.Sarah Haren KC, Barrister, 5 Stone Buildings, practises in a wide-range of Chancery work, both contentious and non-contentious. In addition to the law of partnership, her principal areas of practice are probate and the administration of estates, including family provision, trusts, taxation and related professional negligence and real property, in particular proprietary estoppel and beneficial ownership disputes. She is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.Mathew Roper, Barrister, 5 Stone Buildings, has a litigation and advisory practice encompassing the full spectrum of traditional and commercial chancery work, with an emphasis on both contentious and non-contentious trusts estates and partnerships, probate, capital taxation, the property and affairs jurisdiction of the Court of Protection, and related professional negligence.

• Chapter 1 Partnership in generalChapter 2 Whether there is a partnership and whether a person is a partnerChapter 3 CapacityChapter 4 IllegalityChapter 5 Holding outChapter 6 Sub-partnerships and group partnershipsChapter 7 The partnership agreementChapter 8 Partnership assets and liabilitiesChapter 9 Partnership capital and partners’ capitalChapter 10 The partnership shareChapter 11 The duty of good faithChapter 12 Internal managementChapter 13 DiscriminationChapter 14 Internal partnership dispute and its remediesChapter 15 The enforcement of remedies between partnersChapter 16 Dissolution, retirement and expulsion without court orderChapter 17 Dissolution by court orderChapter 18 The effect of dissolution and retirementChapter 19 The firm and outsidersChapter 20 How partners bear the firm’s liabilitiesChapter 21 Litigation by and against outsidersChapter 22 Insolvency – winding up and similar proceduresChapter 23 The insolvent firm’s debtsChapter 24 Limited partnershipsChapter 25 Limited liability partnershipsAppendix A: Partnership Act 1890Appendix B: Limited Partnerships Act 1907Appendix C: Limited Partnerships (Forms) Rules 2009Appendix D: Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business Names (Sensitive Words and Expressions) Regulations 2009Appendix E: Partnership (Accounts) Regulations 2008Appendix F: Insolvent Partnerships Order 1994Appendix G: Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000Appendix H: Limited Liability Partnerships Regulations 2001Appendix I: Law of Partnership Act 1865 (repealed)Appendix J: British Venture Capital Association statement 26 May 1987

An insightful account of the principles, management and application of this extremely important area of law … and should be considered by anyone practising in this area.