Private Benefits in Public Offerings: Tax Receivable Agreements in IPOsApril 13th, 2018
FiledApril 13th, 2018Historically, an initial public offering (“IPO”) was a process whereby a company sold all of its underlying assets to the public. A new tax innovation, the “tax receivable agreement” (“TRA”), creates private tax benefits in public offerings by allowing pre-IPO owners to effectively keep valuable tax assets for themselves while selling the rest of the company to the public.