In PLR 1126002 IRS has privately ruled that warrants issued from a parent corporation to a shareholder as part of an exchange for the shareholder’s stock in the parent won’t be treated as exercised on the date of the exchange under Code Sec. 382(l)(3)(A)(iv) and Reg. § 1.382-4(d)(2). The shareholder also won’t be treated as owning any stock in the parent for purposes of Reg. § 1.382-3(j)(3)’s cash issuance exception immediately before the parent’s subsequent issuance and sale of common stock to independent investors in order to raise capital.

Source: Federal Tax Updates on Checkpoint Newsstand tab 7/13/2011

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