By Porter Wright on Both Ohio corporations and Ohio LLCs are permitted (but not required) to enter into indemnity agreements with their officers, directors, managers and employees. But when forming an Ohio corporation or Ohio LLC, entities should carefully consider the differing mandatory indemnity obligations that also apply to each type of organization. As we noted in a previous post, … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on Ohio corporations should carefully consider whether their articles of incorporation or code of regulations should state that Ohio Revised Code §1701.13(E)(5)(a) does not apply to the corporation. Without making that exclusion, the lack of an indemnity agreement will not prevent a director from exercising his statutory right to receive (from the corporation) payment of his litigation … Continue Reading
