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What is a section 86 corporate reorganization?
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Many company owners have a dream of selling their company and using the proceeds to fund their retirement. Occasionally the sale may be to a third party, but often the sale is to family members or trusted employees who do not have the available cash to finance the purchase. One solution to assist in this transfer of ownership is to perform an estate freeze.
Section 86, often used in succession planning, is when the existing shareholder wants to pass the business onto other family members. The existing shareholder is freezing the value of the company at a date in time by exchanging all the current shares with redeemable shares of a fixed value. For example, if a company is worth $500,000, the common shares would be swapped for say 5,000 preference shares with a redemption value of $100 each. This allows new shareholders to acquire an interest in the future growth of the company for a nominal fee. As the value of the company has been frozen through the issuance of redeemable preference shares, the existing shareholders then take this frozen value out of the company over time by redeeming the exchanged shares.
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