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Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions, 2016 Edition

Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions, 2016 Edition

Author: Jack S. Levin; Donald E. Rocap
Publisher: Aspen
ISBN: 9781454872429
Published In: July 2016
Format: Paperback , 1374 pages
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
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Now, you can minimize your clients' tax liability and avoid legal pitfalls, as well as maximize returns on successful transactions and be prepared for all of the potential benefits, withStructuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions, 2016 Edition.

Here at last is one-step-at-a-time, start-to-finish structural guidance for the following common business transactions:

Venture capital financing
New business start-ups
Brains-and-money deals
Growth-equity investments
Leveraged and management buyouts
Industry consolidations
Troubled company workouts and reorganizations
Going public
Selling a business
Forming a private equity fund

Guided by Jack S. Levin and Donald E. Rocap's dynamic, transaction-by-transaction approach, you'll make the tax, legal, and economic structuring consequences of every deal benefit your client every time. In this extraordinary hands-on resource by the most sought-after authorities in the field, you'll see exactly how to:

Distribute the tax burden in your client's favor
Maximize returns on successful transactions
Control future rights to exit a profitable investment
And turn every transaction into a winning venture!

Introduction
Structuring Start-Up Transaction
Structuring Newco as Flow-Through Entity
Structuring Growth-Equity Investment in Existing Company
Structuring Buyout
Debt and Equity Securities and Executive Deferred Compensation
Structuring Consolidation of Fragmented Industry
Structuring Turn-Around Investment in Overleveraged or Troubled Company
Exit Strategies: Structuring IPO or Sale of PE/VC-Financed Portfolio Company
Structuring Formation of Private Equity Fund

Appendix: Statutes, Regulations, and Other Precedents

Summary of Contents for Precedents

¶2000 Internal Revenue Code of 1986

¶2100 Treasury Regulations

¶2200 Revenue Procedures and Revenue Rulings

¶2300 Federal Securities Laws, Rules, and Regulations

¶2400 Bankruptcy Code

¶2500 State Fraudulent Conveyance Statutes

¶2600 Delaware Corporate, Partnership, and LLC Statutes

¶2700 Cases

¶2800 Other Materials

Jack S. Levin is a senior partner in the international law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a lecturer at both Harvard and University of Chicago Law Schools. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (summa cum laude , first in a class of 500, officer of the Harvard Law Review), a CPA (winner of the Illinois Gold Medal), and former assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States for tax matters (arguing 8 tax cases to the Supreme Court, 12 to the Federal Court of Appeals, and trying 3 tax cases). For Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, he is co-author of both Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts and Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions. In 2013 American Lawyer magazine named him one of the 50 American lawyers who “over the last 50 years have had an outsize impact on the legal profession” by helping to “lay the legal groundwork for the then nascent private equity industry.” In 2014, Best Lawyers in America publication recognized him as one of the few attorneys who have been honored continuously in all 30 of its annual editions since its 1983 inception. He has received lifetime achievement awards from Chambers Global, Association for Corporate Growth Chicago, and Illinois Venture Capital Association. He is past chair of the ABA Subcommittee on Taxation of Corporate Distributions and former member of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Bar Association’s Taxation Committee.

Donald E. Rocap is a senior partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he specializes in the tax aspects of complex transactions. Mr. Rocap is a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Rocap received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School, where he is a member of the Order of the Coif. Mr. Rocap has been selected as one of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in Tax by Chambers USA every year since 2004 and as one of The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business in Tax by Chambers Globaleach year since 2002. Prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Mr. Rocap was Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel (Regulatory Affairs) at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Tax policy.