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Cozen O'Connor

Drafting Partnership Agreements: Ensuring You Get the Returns You Bargained For

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PIP (partners' interests in the partnership) allocations are very commonly used in partnership agreements. For this reason, Investors and managers should understand the basics of PIP allocations and whether and when they...more

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Forming a Partnership/LLC: A Checklist for Avoiding Pitfalls

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Forming a partnership1 without triggering income appears straightforward and simple. In many cases, it is. In other cases, though, forming a partnership can cause one or more partners to unintentionally recognize income. This...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Rawat Creates a Ripple in Statutory Interpretation Principles

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Recently, in Rawat v. Commissioner, the D.C. Circuit reversed the Tax Court decision and held that a foreign partner would not be subject to U.S. tax on selling an interest in a partnership with “hot assets” subject to §...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Partnership Interest Sale Inventory Gain is Not U.S. Source Income

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On July 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed the U.S. Tax Court in holding that inventory gain recognized by a nonresident alien individual partner on the sale of her interest in a U.S....more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Partnership Transactions Lacking Economic Substance or Business Purpose: Investor Beware

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Assume that X and Y agree to the following: X will transfer ownership of Prop to Y, and Y will transfer cash to X. What just happened? Obviously, X has sold Prop to Y. If the amount of cash that X receives is greater than...more

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[Webinar] IRC 754 Elections for Tax Counsel: Mastering Structuring Considerations of Basis Adjustments - Navigating Complex Basis...

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This CLE/CPE course will provide tax counsel with comprehensive guidance on the 754 election for partnerships. The panel will discuss the basis adjustment rules associated with sales, transfers, and partnership interests or...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Open Transaction Treatment for The Liquidation of a Partner’s Interest

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Another Mess- Congress has only a few days to avert a “shutdown” of the federal government. It’s not looking good in the House, as Speaker McCarthy has struggled to bring certain members of the majority into line, while...more

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Partnership Losses But No Outside Basis? Too Bad

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Losses Weren’t Always Bad- Most tax advisers are aware that, prior to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (the “TRA”),[i] the Code placed few limitations on the ability of an individual taxpayer to use deductions from a particular...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Tax Court Dispenses Favorable Guidance on Profits Interest Safe Harbor

The Tax Court recently held in a memorandum opinion, ES NPA Holding, LLC v. Commissioner, that partnership interests in an upper-tier partnership issued to a service provider of a lower-tier partnership qualified as...more

Morgan Lewis

Taxpayer Victory in US Tax Court Highlights Need for Properly Structuring Partnership Profits Interests

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A recent US Tax Court case upholds profits interest treatment for a taxpayer’s receipt of a partnership interest granted in exchange for services. The case highlights how properly structuring and documenting the grant of a...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Indirectly Held Profits Interests and Rev. Proc. 93-27

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At war with Russia in eastern Europe, a nascent competing world order, mass shootings and bank failures at home, questionable audit practices by the Big 4 . . . everywhere, debt ceilings and the risk of default, inflation,...more

Payne & Fears

Key Considerations in the Purchase / Sale of a Partnership Interest

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Payne & Fears’ Business Litigation Group helps businesses and their owners with wide-ranging disputes. In our practice, we’ve noticed that in disputes among business partners there are common issues that often surface. ...more

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Sale of Partnership Interests . . . In the Ordinary Course of Business?

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What Is It? Where one stands on an issue of tax law may depend upon context and perspective, including the facts and circumstances one finds relevant, and whom one is counseling or representing. Tax advisers often find...more

Locke Lord LLP

Proposed Changes to Code Section ‎‎1061 Contemplate Significant Changes for Real Estate Funds ‎and Developers

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The “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” recently announced by Senators Manchin and Shumer to be added to the 2022 Budget Reconciliation bill proposes several significant changes to Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue Code of...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Inflation Reduction Act targets carried interests

On June 27, US Senators Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer announced proposed legislation referred to as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act). The proposed legislation includes changes that would expand the scope of IRC...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

The Schumer-Manchin Proposal To “Eliminate” the Profits Interest

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Summer Break? After the last couple of weeks, I’m looking forward to Congress’s summer vacation. I’m pretty sure our elected representatives feel the same way, though it is unclear at this point when they will be heading...more

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Current Partnership Distributions: When Do You Figure Your Basis?

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Withdrawing Value- In general, the owners of a closely held business have several options by which they may withdraw money from the business without selling their interest in the business....more

Allen Matkins

Does A Partner Have An Interest In Partnership Property That Can Be Transferred?

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Under California's former general partnership law, a partner was a "coowner with the other partners of specific partnership property  holding as a tenant in partnership."  Former Cal. Corp. Code § 15025(1).  Whether this was...more

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Highlights From The Final Carried Interest Regulations

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On January 7, 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service released final regulations under Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“the Code”). The Final Regulations address the...more

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Section 1061 Final Regulations on the Taxation of Carried Interest

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On January 7, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) issued final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) providing guidance on Section 1061 of the Internal...more

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IRS Issues Final Regulations Concerning Withholding on Partnership Interest Transfers

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The US Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued final regulations under section 1446(f), a provision enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) that generally imposes a...more

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Section 1446(f) Final Regulations: Key Changes to Guidance on Non-Publicly Traded Partnership Interest Transfers by Non-U.S....

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On October 7, 2020, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and Treasury Department released final regulations providing guidance on the rules imposing withholding and reporting requirements under the Code on dispositions...more

Hogan Lovells

Final regulations - Foreign partner's U.S. tax liability on transfer of partnership interest

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Given the overall development of the secondaries market and the increasing volume and size of secondary funds, the U.S. tax and withholding regime that applies to a foreign partner transferring an interest in a partnership...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Louisiana Expands Scope of Non-Competes Law to Include Partners, Shareholders and LLC Members

Louisiana’s amended non-competition statute (La. R.S. 23:921), which meaningfully expands the application of employment-related non-compete restrictions within the state, went into effect on August 1, 2020.  This amendment...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Fund Managers and Family Offices Get Some Clarity on Carried Interests with Issuance of Proposed Treasury Regulations

On August 14, 2020, the IRS published Proposed Treasury Regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) under Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue Code to close the “carried interest loop hole” through which managers of investment...more

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