The Common Norwegian Private Equity

As a hybrid of partnerships and corporations, LLC’s provide limited liability for debts and flexibility to be taxed as a partnership or corporation (Staring and Naming a Business Presentation, 2012, Slide 5). Some specific advantages include being empowered authorities in the management of the business, diversity of members, limited liability, pass-through taxation, and less paperwork (appreciated by many). A drawback of this business structure is the need for a tailored operating agreement that specifies the specific needs of the

The collateral (storage containers) did not have a secondary market in case of default.” Because of these two factors, PODS must rely on venture capital to expand its franchise operation.

As for private equity asset allocation the Investment Office focused on finding external "value-added investors" with the sterling capability to build better businesses not only financially but mainly operationally. They believed this strategy led to enhancing returns independently of the market downturns. Thus, a limited number of long-standing partnerships were created - exclusively with partners aligned with the generalized investment policies of the Investment Office - with "over 90% of the portfolio invested in

Since scenario 1 has a negative NPV, we recommend Ocean Carriers to not invest if there is a 35% tax rate in the US. In scenario 2, where the ship is built in HK with a 0% tax rate, then we recommend that Ocean Carrier invest in the ship. This analysis shows that working the ship at a 35% tax rate will not yield a profit on the investment even 25 years into the future, given the increasing costs of survey preparation and the diminishing number of days that the ship is actually able to make money and be commissioned.

CHAPTER 21 PARTNERSHIPS SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEM MATERIALS | | | | |Status: | Q/P | |Question/ |Learning | | |Present |in Prior | |Problem |Objective |Topic | |Edition |Edition | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 LO 1 Partnership definition New 2 LO 2 General partnership versus LLC New 3

Over the years, there are many controversies over equity method within IAS 28 Investments in Associates and Joint Ventures. The controversies basically lay on the vagueness of application on equity method; whether it serves as one-line consolidation (consolidation technique), measurement basis or a mixture of both. This paper divides into 3 parts. First part gives an illustration on this accounting issue in IAS 28 as well as the explanation, second part compares and contrasts the financial reports of two assigned entities and the final part discusses the qualitative characteristics of their financial reports.

The company’s existing portfolio has high risk options. They have been funding companies that requires huge amount of capital which increases the company’s risk. Also it was mentioned in the case that firm is experiencing a “Resource Problem”. Members of investment firm had been part of inner

This is the most common type of company and is what most people have in mind when considering whether or not to set up a company. Each shareholder’s liability is limited to the amount unpaid on the shareholding owned by them. However, the shareholder must also be aware that they run the risk of losing monies paid to the company whether in full or part payment of the shares owned by them.

Then the agreement can include clauses about Interest on Capital, Financial Decisions, Profit and Loss would be an important one to include, Books of the Account (since in one of the case studies one of the partners was mismanaging their books), Annual Reports, Management, Transfer of Partnership Interest, or Voluntary/Involuntary Withdrawal of a Partner. Also, this agreement should include liability, governing law, definitions, and miscellaneous.

General partnership gives each partner the right to participate in the company’s management and their funds. However, they are all responsible for any debt that is acquired.

These investments would outfit the ship and crew, and upon a successful return, would pay back a percentage to the investors. These types of limited liability companies would only last for voyage though, and would be dissolved upon return, only for a new company to be created for the next one. Investors would spread their risk around by investing in several different ships at the same time, allowing them to play the odds against all of them ending poorly. If a ship had a 33% chance of being seized by pirates, and the investor had placed money in 3 or 4 companies, instead of just one, they would still make a profit.

These entities helped the company to reduce a share risk by limiting disposable expenses, allowing the company to “participate in a strategic ventured” (Rankine, G., 2009, pg. 13-6). Joint ventures allowed the company to enter into markets that without a strategic partner would not have been accessible. Joint ventures also expanded the financial situation for the Lennar Company “to combine its homebuilding expertise with access to it partners’ capital” (Rankine, G., 2009, 13-6).

Ocean Carriers Inc. was approached in January of 2001 with a contract proposal for the leasing of one of their ships for a term of 3 years beginning in 2003. Ocean Carriers currently has no ship to accommodate the customer. To commission the construction of a new vessel would take 2 years from start to completion. The average rate in the spot market is $22,000 per day. Ocean Carriers deployed a younger fleet than average carriers and generally earned a 15% premium over the average daily rate placing them in position to capitalize in strong economies. However, the industry is volatile and suseptable to extremes both low and high. Many ship owners sought to sign contracts with time charters in order to shield themselves from the swings

Business Planning and Structures The main structures that shall be examined in the context of this venture are: partnerships, joint ventures, companies, trusts and sole partnerships. For the purposes of the investments under consideration, there could be a number of structures that might be applicable for each but not all will be necessarily as efficient. The most probable structure that might be utilised to facilitate each investment is as follows - implement the retail business as a sole trader, farm as a partnership or joint venture, joint venture or company for the speculative mining venture and set up a trust or company for the long term investment portfolio. The rationale will be elucidated below.

Every firm would love to invest in shipping industry due to large profits involved. However this would seem easy but practically it is lot more difficult and virtually impossible to establish in container line business. The problem pertains to large capital investments in form of vessel and container procurements and risk of operating vessels. Even if we take the examples of biggest companies