To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Distinguishing between an entity and the ownership of equity in that entity is not difficult. But it is surprising how often those two distinct concepts become conflated or obscured in the drafting of commercial agreements. Thus, in a New York case involving the interpretation of a prenuptial agreement, a spouse was denied a share of the proceeds of the sale of stock owned by her ex in a company because the agreement, as drafted, specified that she was only entitled to a share of the proceeds from a sale