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Alston & Bird

The Inversion Sweet Spot

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Our Federal Tax Group finds the sweet spot for corporate inversions. If a U.S. corporation’s shareholders obtain between 50% and 60% of the stock, the exchange could be taxable....more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Corporate Inversion – Turning an Israeli Company into a Foreign Company

Generally speaking, a corporation inversion is a process of changing the holding structure of an existing company by transferring all of the existing company’s issued share capital from its shareholders to a new company, in...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: Treasury Department Expands Anti-Inversion Rules, Earnings Stripping Rules

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On April 4, 2016, the United States Department of the Treasury issued temporary regulations that expand the scope of transactions subject to the rules designed to eliminate the US tax benefits of "inversions." The temporary...more

Mintz

IRS Chief Counsel Shrugs Off Taxpayer’s Section 956 Gambit

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In a recently released Chief Counsel Advice Memorandum (the “Memorandum”), the IRS Office of Chief Counsel (International) addressed an interesting and somewhat creative internal financing structure deployed by a taxpayer...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

M&A Update: Senator Levin Introduces Anti-Inversion Act

On May 20, 2014, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) introduced the Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2014 (the “Levin Bill”), which proposes significantly more stringent limits on the ability of U.S. companies to relocate outside the U.S....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

M&A Update: New Rules Will Limit Shareholders’ Tax-Free Treatment On Inversions

In what may be the first of a series of steps, the government took decisive action today to ensure that shareholders of US companies inverting by merger must pay tax on the transfer of their US company shares if they hold a...more

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