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• Forco is a foreign corporation. It has identified and filled a market need and has accelerating year-over-year growth. With proper funding, Forco can rapidly improve its short-term profitability and long-term viability. Without proper funding, Forco remains vulnerable to better-funded emerging competitors.
• Forco needs venture capital funding to continue growing.
The Inbound “Flip” Scenario
Sources: Global Venture Capital Statistic: Ernst & Young, Globalizing Venture Capital: Global venture and insights and trends report; Rankings: The Global Venture Capital and Private Equity Country Attractiveness Index 2012, Alexander Groh, Heinrich Liechtenstein and Karsten Lieser, http://blog.iese.edu/vcpeindex/unitedstates/; “Size of the Economy”: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2012/01/weodata/index.aspx; “Size of the Stock Market”: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/CM.MKT.LCAP.CD; “Stock Market Liquidity”: http://online.wsj.com/mdc/page/marketsdata.html; “IPO Market Activity”: http://www.pwc.com/us/en/press-releases/2012/q2-ipo-watch-press-release.jhtml; “M&A Market Activity”: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ernst-young-us-ma-activity-falling-2012-07-02.
• Gross Domestic Product, 2011: $15.1 trillion
Size of the Economy
• Stock market cap, 2011: $15.6 trillion
Size of the Stock Market
• Daily trading volume, 10/11/2012: $4.7 billion
Stock Market Liquidity
• Number of IPOs, 2012 first half 71
IPO Market Activity
• Number of M&A deals, 2012 first half: 3,159
M&A Market Activity
Global Venture Capital and Private Equity Country Attractiveness Index ranks the US as the venture capital leader overall and in the following five categories:
Venture Capital Funding in the US
Source: Statistics: Ernst & Young, Globalizing Venture Capital: Global venture and insights and trends report; https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/MTPublic/ns/nav.jsp?page=historical.
Silicon Valley:41% of US Venture Capital
United States of America:67% of Global Venture Capital
2011 Venture Capital Totals:Global: $48.7 billion
Global Venture Capital Hub: Silicon Valley
• US angel investors and venture capital fund managers’ discomfort or unfamiliarity with foreign entity structures and governing laws may dissuade investment in such entities, rendering them less likely than a similarly situated US company to secure funding.
The Problem
Description: The shareholders create a new US entity (“Domco”), and exchange their Forco stock for Domco stock. After the exchange, the shareholders will own Domco, and Domco will own Forco. Angel investors and venture capital funds would invest at the Domco level.
Domco(US)
Forco(Foreign)
Stock in Domco
Stock in ForcoShareholders
Domco(US)
Shareholders
Forco(Foreign)
The Solution: Inbound “Flip” Transactions
• Angel investors and venture capital funds are much more likely to invest in the corporate group at the new Domco level.
• Royse Law Firm has been performing inbound “flip” transactions since 2006.
• “Flips” can typically be achieved tax free, with only entity creation and legal document costs.
• “Flips” are generally executed quickly, and can be completed within about three weeks.
Shareholders
Results and Details
Domco(US)
Forco(Foreign)
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