August 11th, 2016

For business organizations formed and operated as partnerships for federal and state income tax purposes it has long been assumed that when the partnership and its owners wish to take the business “to market” in terms of a public offering, it has been the general consensus that the partners needs to convert into a corporation before the IPO is effectuated. But that is not, however, the only available model for a partnership’s venturing into an IPO. In this regard, another model involves the use of the “Up-C partnership” structure which is not as widely known.