Control & Subsidiaries
Control relationships, affiliates, holding companies, subsidiaries, cross-holdings, multinational corporations, and variable interest entities.
Business ownership forms and partnership structures used to share control, capital, liability, and project-specific risk.
Business Ownership and Partnership Structures explains business ownership forms, entity relationships, control rights, liability boundaries, partnership roles, and shared-venture structures used in corporate finance.
Use these pages when ownership form or group structure changes who controls assets, contributes capital, bears obligations, receives distributions, or approves transactions. It sits inside Corporate Finance, so readers can move up when the broader company-finance context matters.
Use the table below to choose the narrower corporate-finance branch before applying a term to a model, board memo, financing analysis, transaction review, or risk assessment. Move into the term page when the evidence source, calculation, agreement, filing, account, or governance right matters.
| Area | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Control, Affiliates, Holding Companies, and Subsidiaries | Control relationships, affiliates, holding companies, subsidiaries, cross-holdings, multinational corporations, and variable interest entities. |
| Corporations and Share Company Forms | Corporate entity forms, share companies, close corporations, private corporations, public corporations, and SME structures. |
| Joint Ventures, Buy-Sell Agreements, and Business Agreements | Joint venture and buy-sell agreement terms used to structure shared business projects and ownership exits. |
| Limited Liability, Owner Risk, and Continuity | Limited liability, shareholder liability, unlimited liability, continuity of life, and LLP terms used to allocate owner risk. |
| Partnership Roles and Agreements | Partnership, general partner, limited partner, sleeping partner, limited partnership, and partnership agreement terms. |
Ownership-structure content is educational and does not provide legal, tax, accounting, or entity-formation advice.
Choose a subsection first. Deeper term pages live inside each subsection, which keeps large topic hubs readable.
Control relationships, affiliates, holding companies, subsidiaries, cross-holdings, multinational corporations, and variable interest entities.
Corporate entity forms, share companies, close corporations, private corporations, public corporations, and SME structures.
Joint venture and buy-sell agreement terms used to structure shared business projects and ownership exits.
Limited liability, shareholder liability, unlimited liability, continuity of life, and LLP terms used to allocate owner risk.
Partnership, general partner, limited partner, sleeping partner, limited partnership, and partnership agreement terms.