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Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

New Israeli Court Ruling on Artificial Transactions

A recent court ruling in the Shalam Packaging Products Group case addressed claims made by the Netanya tax assessor. The assessor argued the group executed a restructuring solely to reduce its tax liabilities by offsetting...more

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Nevada Supreme Court Rejects The "Uncontrollable Child" Theory Of Parent-Subsidiary Relationships

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Nevada famously limits directors and officers from personal liability.  However, it would be an overstatement to say that Nevada is a "liability free" jurisdiction.  For example, the Nevada Supreme Court recently held that...more

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UK Supreme Court Issues Long-Awaited Judgment Regarding Company Directors' Duties to Creditors

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​​​​​​​In an important decision for U.S. companies with UK subsidiaries, the UK Supreme Court recently handed down its long-awaited judgment in BTI 2014 LLC v. Sequana S.A., the first case in which the UK's highest court...more

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Do Directors Have a Duty to Consider the Interests of Creditors Prior to Insolvency?

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On 5 October 2022, the English Supreme Court handed down its decision in BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA and others. This (as described by Lady Justice Arden) “momentous” decision principally concerns whether directors are under...more

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Seller Beware - Court Rules That California Can Tax Gain from the Sale of Goodwill

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A California state appellate court recently upheld the trial court's decision in The 2009 Metropoulos Family Trust v. Franchise Tax Board that nonresident shareholders of an S corporation source gain on the S corporation's...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Build Back Better Act Would Change Monetization Playbook for Tax-Free Spin-Offs

Takeaways - Tax law changes in the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) would limit the amount of value a company could extract in a spin-off by using a debt-for-debt exchange. Companies may be able to achieve most of the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The Corporate Guide: Is a Stockholder Vote Necessary?

“Substantially all” is defined as “[A] determination of whether there is a sale of substantially all assets so as to trigger section 271 depends upon the particular qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Disposing Of Assets Under The Ways and Means Committee’s Proposals

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First Step- Last Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee approved that portion of the 2022 budget legislation with which it was tasked by the Congressional Budget resolution of August 24. The text of the bill...more

Morris James LLP

Chancery Finds That the Standard of Review for the Conduct of a Shareholders’ Representative Turns Upon the Merger Agreement’s...

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Houseman v. Sagerman, C.A. No. 8897-VCG (Del. Ch. July 20, 2021) - A merger agreement between a subsidiary of Healthport Technologies, LLC and Universata, Inc., gave the owners of 72 percent of Universata’s stock (the...more

Troutman Pepper

The Latest Successful Caremark Claim

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In Teamsters Local 443 Health Services & Insurance Plan v. Chou, the Delaware Court of Chancery held, at the pleading stage, that plaintiff stockholders had stated a claim for Caremark oversight liability against certain of...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

An S Corporation In New York City: Eschew Obfuscation – Or Not

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NYC: A “Helluva” Town, for S corps- Of late, I’ve received a surprising number of inquiries regarding the taxation of S corporations doing business in New York City (“NYC”). As many of you know, NYC does not recognize...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The “Long Goodbye” to Duty of Care as a Real Basis for Director Liability in M&A: The Legacy of Chancellor Allen

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The fiduciary duty of care has become more aspirational than a real legal basis for potential director liability in M&A in the Age of DGCL Section 102(b)(7), Corwin v. KKR Financial Holdings LLC (Del. 2015) and In re Volcano...more

Dechert LLP

Second Circuit Paves a Way to Protect LBO Payments from Avoidance Actions 

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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently held in In re Tribune Company Fraudulent Conveyance Litigation, No. 13-3992-cv (L) (2d Cir., Dec. 19, 2019) that Bankruptcy Code Section 546(e) barred claims seeking to avoid...more

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Japan Legal Update Vol. 50 | November–December 2019

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Corporate Governance - Companies Act Amendments to Enhance Corporate Governance - The Companies Act of Japan was amended on December 4, 2019 ("Amended Companies Act"), based on the Interim Proposal and the Outline...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Flow-through Tax Status as a Property Right? The Case of Schroeder Brothers Farms

A recent case from the Western District of Wisconsin, In re Schroeder Brothers Farms of Camp Douglas LLP, may raise a new issue for the bankruptcy treatment of tax attributes in flow-through entities. The court in Schroeder...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Tax-Free Spin-Off? That May Depend . . . On Post-Spin-Off Events

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The Break-Up- After a tense period of disagreement and stalemate, the threaten of litigation, the ensuing economic and emotional stress, Client and their former fellow-shareholder (“Departing”) – and onetime friend, before...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Personal Jurisdiction/Forum Non Conveniens - The World in U.S. Courts: Summer 2019

Personal Jurisdiction Based on Knowledge of Texas Port of Call and Lack of Objection Even Where Ship Operator Had No Other Texas Contacts or Control Over Destination Carmona v. LEO Ship Management, Inc., US Court of Appeals...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

UK Court of Appeal: When to Trigger the Creditor Duty Shift

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Ruling provides guidance on how close to insolvency a company needs to be before directors must consider creditors’ interests. The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that the payment of a lawful dividend did not, on the facts,...more

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Chancery Finds Controlling Stockholder Impliedly Consented to Jurisdiction Through Board’s Adoption of Delaware Forum-Selection...

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In re Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. Derivative Litigation, Consol. C.A. No. 2018-0058-JTL (Del. Ch. Mar. 15, 2019). Stockholders that control Delaware corporations find themselves subject to fiduciary duties. According to this...more

Holland & Knight LLP

U.S. Corporate Financing Transactions Facilitated by IRS Proposed Regulation

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• The Internal Revenue Service has issued a proposed regulation that in many cases should eliminate the detrimental U.S. tax consequences to a U.S. corporation under Section 956 of the Internal Revenue Code when the...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

New Proposed Treasury Regulations May Eliminate Adverse Tax Consequences on Use of Foreign Credit Support for US Corporate...

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But Holding Period and Other Requirements Add Complexity - On October 31, 2018, the US Treasury and Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations (the Proposed Regulations) that would eliminate, in most...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

New Proposed Rules Limit the Negative Tax Consequences of Section 956 "Deemed Dividends" - Certain Foreign Guarantees and Stock...

On October 31, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations (the "Proposed Regulations") under Section 956 that could substantially increase the collateral packages made available by US corporate borrowers...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Five Things You Need to Know About The “Deemed Dividend” Halloween Treat

IRS delivers a surprise in proposing new regs. New rules would generally conform the tax treatment of deemed dividends to the treatment of actual dividends for US corporations that own foreign subsidiaries, creating the...more

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Proposed Treasury Regulations Permit Foreign Subsidiary Credit Support for U.S. Multinational Financings

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The proposed regulations, released October 31, 2018, generally provide tax-free treatment to a U.S. corporate parent of a controlled foreign corporate subsidiary ("CFC") for deemed dividends triggered when the CFC provides...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Delaware Chancery Court Strictly Construes Appraisal Statute to Deny Stockholders Appraisal Rights in a Reverse Triangular Merger

In City of North Miami Beach Gen. Employees’ Ret. Plan v. Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc., C.A. No. 2018-0227-AGB, 2018 WL 2473150 (Del. Ch. June 1, 2018), the Delaware Court of Chancery (Bouchard, C.) denied stockholders of Dr...more

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