Recent Anti-Inversion Guidance Has Meaningful Implications for Insurance Companies
The Treasury Department and the IRS recently released Notice 2014-52 (the “Notice”), which describes regulations that the government intends to issue to target the tax benefits of corporate inversions. The provisions of the Notice are summarized in our previous client memorandum dated September 23, 2014,
Treasury Issues Long-Awaited Anti-Inversion Guidance. This Client Newsflash highlights a feature of the Notice that has not attracted much public attention, and that appears both to eliminate the ability of many foreign insurance companies to participate in inversion transactions and to impede the ability of many foreign insurance companies to acquire U.S. target companies using stock consideration.
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