Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

The announcement that Yvon Chouinard has given control of his $3 billion apparel company, Patagonia, to a Perpetual Business Purpose Trust, has generated a great deal of discussion about Purpose ...

The New York Times reported in mid-September that Yvon Chouinard, the founder of clothing-maker Patagonia, has transferred the voting stock of this $3 billion company to a purpose trust (representing ...

In their presentation, “Taking Care of Business: New Approaches to Business Succession Planning,” at the 59th annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, Ellen K. Harrison and Natalie ...