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Pre-Negotiated Partnership Distribution: Legitimate Restructuring or Disguised Sale?
Partnerships · Complexity Very High 2026-04-09 36d9d907
Partnership holding appreciated warehouse ($12M FMV, $4M basis, $3M debt) with two 50% partners seeking divergent exit strategies: one partner wants cash, the other wants Section 1031 exchange. Partners had substantive price negotiations ($11.5-12.5M range) with potential buyer six weeks before contemplating distribution of property to partners as tenants-in-common, with written communications showing exit intent two months prior.
Drop-and-swap structure abandoned as too risky. Distributing partnership property to partners as tenants-in-common after substantive sale negotiations were already underway creates unacceptable risk o…
707(a)(2)(B)disguised saledrop-and-swap1031 exchangepartnership distributionstep transaction
📚 9 authorities 4.4 ✓
Drop-and-Swap After Partnership Dissolution: Legitimate Restructuring or Integrated Sale?
Real Estate · Complexity Very High 2026-03-28 a8993562
Family and co-investors held appreciated commercial property ($15M FMV, $4M basis) in partnership-taxed LLC. Majority partner sought to 1031 exchange into individually-owned replacement property while minority partners wanted cash liquidity. Partnership executed formal dissolution distributing property to majority partner and cash to minority partners, followed 60 days later by majority partner's individual Section 1031 exchange into pre-identified Dallas replacement property.
Drop-and-swap structure is defensible under Revenue Ruling 99-6 Situation 1 where partnership undergoes complete liquidation for legitimate business reasons (divergent investment strategies documented…
1031 exchangedrop-and-swapstep-transaction doctrinepartnership liquidationSection 731Section 707 disguised sale
📚 7 authorities 4.3 ✓
Multi-Property Swap-and-Drop: Genuine Partnership Holding or Prearranged Conduit?
Real Estate · Complexity High 2026-03-26 e2305823
Partnership holding appreciated commercial property ($8M basis, $25M FMV) with GP (30%) and three institutional LPs (70%) seeking divergent Section 1031 exchanges—GP targeting Denver multifamily, LPs targeting Phoenix industrial. Partnership executed swap-and-drop: exchanged into both properties, operated 18-24 months with preferential allocations giving each partner economic benefits tied to their preferred asset, then liquidating dissolution distributing properties along pre-negotiated lines.
Structure qualifies for Section 1031 treatment under Revenue Procedure 2002-22 safe harbor because partnership genuinely acquired and operated replacement properties for 18+ months with substantive bu…
1031 exchangeswap-and-dropstep transaction doctrinepartnership substancepreferential allocations704(b) allocations
📚 9 authorities 4.5 ✓