Local Shopping REIT (LSR) is working with Deloitte to create structures in which companies can remove heavy latent capital tax charges on their property portfolios by reversing into the retail property business.
LSR would offer to acquire the shares of the private company in exchange for its own shares in what it describes as an “elegant exit” for owners who could struggle to realise the full worth of their properties.
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