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De Facto Shareholder Primacy, Jeff Schwartz Jan 2020

De Facto Shareholder Primacy, Jeff Schwartz

Maryland Law Review

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Finding The Pearl In The Oyster: Supercharging Ipos Through Tax Receivable Agreements, Christopher B. Grady Feb 2017

Finding The Pearl In The Oyster: Supercharging Ipos Through Tax Receivable Agreements, Christopher B. Grady

Northwestern University Law Review

A new, “supercharged” form of IPO has slowly developed over the last twenty years. This new form of IPO takes advantage of several seemingly unrelated provisions of the tax code to multiply pre-IPO owners’ proceeds from a public offering without reducing the amount public investors are willing to pay for the stock. Supercharged IPOs use a tax receivable agreement to transfer tax assets created by the IPO back to the pre-IPO ownership, “monetizing” the tax assets. As these structures have become more efficient, commentators have expressed concerns that these agreements deceive shareholders who either ignore or do not understand the …


How Long Can This Go On? The Controversy Over The Application Of The Statute Of Limitations To S Corporations And Their Shareholders, J. Marcus Sommers Nov 2012

How Long Can This Go On? The Controversy Over The Application Of The Statute Of Limitations To S Corporations And Their Shareholders, J. Marcus Sommers

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Corporate And Business Law, Laurence V. Parker Nov 2009

Corporate And Business Law, Laurence V. Parker

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Stock Received In Lieu Of Salary By Stockholder-Employees Whose Proportionate Interest Remains Unchanged Is Taxable Income--Commissioner V. Fender Sales, Inc., Michigan Law Review Nov 1965

Stock Received In Lieu Of Salary By Stockholder-Employees Whose Proportionate Interest Remains Unchanged Is Taxable Income--Commissioner V. Fender Sales, Inc., Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Transactions involving forgiveness by stockholder-employees of corporate indebtedness are shrouded in legal uncertainty. The conflicting positions espoused by the Commissioner, the Tax Court, and the circuit court in the principal case focus attention on a few salient problems. The Commissioner, in arguing that the receipt of stock by the individual taxpayers constituted taxable income, considered the individuals solely as employees, believing it immaterial that they were also stockholders. Thus, he reasoned that when they, as employees, received stock in payment of their accrued salaries, they realized income. In contrast, the Tax Court viewed the individual taxpayers as stockholders who had …


Federal Taxation - Tax Aspects Of Corporate Buy And Sell Agreement, Joel D. Tauber S.Ed. Feb 1959

Federal Taxation - Tax Aspects Of Corporate Buy And Sell Agreement, Joel D. Tauber S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

It is the purpose of this comment to consider the tax problems connected with both types of "conventional" corporate buy and sell agreements. It should be recognized, however, that there are many questions of local law and business necessity that also exert influence on the use of such agreements.