Corporate structuring
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Corporate
Structuring
Does your corporate structure position you to seize potential exit or growth opportunities, such as business sales, entry / exit of investors or public listings?
With our corporate structuring services, you’ll achieve a tax-efficient corporate structure while protecting both company and personal assets. We also have the methods to ensure your corporate structure provides flexibility to avoid costly restructures required to prepare for potential exit or growth opportunities.
Corporate
Structuring
With our corporate structuring services, you’ll achieve a tax-efficient corporate structure while protecting both company and personal assets. We also have the methods to ensure your corporate structure provides flexibility to avoid costly restructures required to prepare for potential exit or growth opportunities.
Some of the ways we can future-ready your business:
Holding company interpositions
Intra -group asset transfers
Share buy-backs, share swaps, share splits
Restructures in readiness for exit events
Shareholder’s deeds
Buy-sell deeds
FAQ's
Corporate structuring involves selecting the type of legal entity that will operate your business.
Examples include companies, unit trusts, discretionary trusts, partnerships and joint ventures.
The most suitable legal entity will depend on the type of business and your goals for the future.
Corporate structuring can also be used to restructure an existing corporate structure.
Corporate structuring is important because having the wrong structure can trigger preventable capital gains tax consequences, complicate the entry / exit of investors and invalidate trade marks.
Yes, we have the methods to utilise tax concessions to restructure your existing corporate structure into one that will prevent adverse tax consequences, streamline the entry / exit of investors and protect your trade mark portfolio.
Recent Experience
Alvin Legal advises on A$30m corporate consolidation
Alvin Legal recently advised a Queensland-based corporate on utilising tax relief to consolidate two stand-alone entities into a corporate group with a head company and two subsidiaries.
The consolidation involved:
- swapping the shareholders’ shares in the two stand-alone entities for shares in the new head company;
- utilising roll-over relief for business restructures under the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Cth), to ensure that the consolidation did not trigger any adverse tax consequences for the shareholders; and
- forming a tax consolidated group, so that assets could be freely moved between group companies without triggering adverse tax consequences.
Articles
Tax Consolidations Explained
Tax consolidation is where an eligible corporate group elects to be treated as a single entity for income tax purposes. In this article we look at the eligibility criteria for tax consolidation and its benefits.
Selective Share Buy-Backs Explained
A selective share buy-back involves a reduction in capital, and as such the company must comply with Part 2J.1 of the Corporations Act (Cth) before proceeding with the transaction.