Although
statutory mergers will not be appropriate in all cases, their advantages may prove compelling in future deals and we anticipate the use of
statutory mergers in future mega mergers.
12) Private planners achieved success in using alternative structures of business deals to avoid appraisal rights in
statutory mergers.
368-2(b), to address
statutory mergers involving disregarded entities.
On November 15, 2001, the Treasury and IRS withdrew the 2000 proposed regulations and issued new proposed regulations that permitted certain
statutory mergers into disregarded entities to qualify as "A" reorganizations, if all of the assets and liabilities of the target were transferred to the acquiror and the target went out of existence.
The Internal Revenue Service and Department of the Treasury issued temporary regulations under [section] 368 on January 24, 2003, that clarify which types of transactions qualify as
statutory mergers or consolidations under [section] 368(a)(1)(A).
In the case of a tax-free deal, generally stock-for-stock exchanges, stock-for-asset exchanges and
statutory mergers, the book/tax difference of goodwill does not generate a deferred tax liability, but it does generate a deferred tax liability for other intangibles.
Publicly Traded: acquisitions of publicly traded companies, tender offers,
statutory mergers, minority-interest purchases except those classified as a Foreign Target.
PHP is the surviving corporation of these
statutory mergers.
368-2, defining the term
statutory merger or consolidation for purposes of applying Sec.
The IRS said that the transfer of NOLs under these circumstances would be allowed only in
statutory mergers and consolidations and not in other types of tax-free reorganizations.
As many foreign jurisdictions now have merger statutes that operate like those of the states, under which all assets and liabilities move by operation of law, the IRS changed the definition of an A reorganization to allow transactions effected pursuant to these statutes to qualify as
statutory mergers or consolidations for Sec.
Announcements are segregated into one of four transaction types which are defined according to the following guidelines: Publicly Traded: acquisitions of publicly traded companies, tender offers,
statutory mergers, minority-interest purchases, but excludes purchases and acquisitions of foreign companies.
