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...Bidders had been told the process would restart soon after stalling over how to structure the deal in a tax efficient way....
...Since then, the investors rebranded the business Refinitiv and embarked on a cost-cutting campaign to make the business more efficient....
...Many US preferred investors get an after-tax boost because a large number of issues pay dividends that qualify for the 15 per cent to 20 per cent tax rate....
...Bawag reported pre-tax profits of €470m in 2016, up 12 per cent compared with the previous year....
...KKR made companies more efficient. “People forget,” he added, “that RJR had no governance.”...
...Within the industry, Calpine is considered one of the most efficient operators, and it owns a relatively modern fleet....
...Revenues in the first half of the year fell 34 per cent compared to the same period last year to $541m, a smaller decline than expected, leading to a pre-tax profit of $24m....
...The numbers were made to add up by selling the Sunoco retail business to its affiliate Sunoco LP for $2.2bn, and by issuing units worth $1.1bn....
...The sale would allow it to separate from its largest asset, the $29bn stake in Chinese ecommerce company Alibaba, which investors have been eager to have access to in a tax-efficient way ever since its initial...
...Managing interest rates is a relatively new monetary policy tool for Kazakhstan, with the central bank setting its first benchmark rate last September, and analysts say it is still far from efficient....
...Yahoo decided to press ahead on advice of its lawyers that the spin-off is the most tax efficient way to hand the Alibaba stock to shareholders....
...It could sell the core business; spin off the core, which tax lawyers believe would be more efficient because it is worth so much less than its Alibaba stake; change the board, with proxies due in early...
...The process could be complicated but it is almost certain to be tax efficient....
...Such a deal would allow him a tax-efficient way to boost his shareholding in the group flagship....
...That rumoured merger had been seen as a tax-efficient way for Lee Jae-yong to increase his stake in the flagship electronics business....
...Unless the restructuring is done in a tax-efficient way, which would include a spin-off of the competitive side of the group, the additional taxes could total as much as $7bn....
...Starboard Value began its activist campaign in September 2014, shortly after Alibaba listed in New York, pushing for Yahoo to find a tax-efficient way of selling down its sizeable stake in the company, rather...
...Mr Smith warned that a large acquisition or a spin-off of Asian assets in return for cash, rather than a more tax-efficient restructure of Yahoo’s remaining stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, would “be a...
...Linn is one of the rare producers structured as a master limited partnership, a tax-efficient vehicle that funnels nearly all cash flow to shareholders through distributions....
...“We have worked tirelessly on a tax-efficient alternative that would maximise the value of our Alibaba investment for our shareholders,” she said....
...(NYT $) US tax breaks Congress looks set to avert a clash over tax policy with a temporary deal to reinstate dozens of expired tax breaks....
...The tax-efficient sale or merger, whereby Darden establishes a REIT and combines it with another existing REIT, is described in a 99 page real estate report from Starboard last March....
...That strategy has usually worked out for investors in master limited partnerships, a tax-efficient corporate structure designed for energy transport and storage companies....
...They’re tax efficient because depreciation on the assets becomes tax deductible on a partner level....
...“Smaller fund managers want to do what the bigger managers can,” said Mr Stueber, who added that buying ADRs rather than overseas equities could be cheaper, more convenient and more tax efficient....
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