Can "opportunity zones" be used with search funds?

by a searcher from Harvard University - Harvard Business School

5 years ago

Has anyone done any research on how buying a business that resides or owns the real estate within an opportunity zone impacts the search economics? Could the tax advantages be applied to the acquisition cost to benefit the buyer or seller?
If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's an article: https://www.wellsfargo.com/the-private-bank/insights/planning/wpu-qualified-opportunity-zones/

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searcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management

Thanks for sharing this article!

3 years ago | like reply | 0 likes

searcher from Georgetown University - The McDonough School of Business

I'd like to restart the discussion on this topic. What if the search fund is in a OZ but the eventual target isn't? I'd think there should be a way to structure the deal such that the benefits could be retained if somehow the owning company stayed within the zone, right?

4 years ago | like reply | 0 likes

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