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Simon's Hostile Tender for Taubman

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Introduction:

The Taubman Company is one of the preeminent retail developers/owners/managers in the United States and its properties among the most productive in the nation.
Simon is the largest shopping center owner and manager in the country and was interested in Taubman because Taubman, a much smaller company, has among the most unique, profitable and high-quality shopping centers in the country. It was much easier to buy a shopping center company than to develop shopping centers from the ground up, which is really why Simon was interested in Taubman. Thus, Simon Property Group launched a hostile tender offer for Taubman Centers.
This was a hostile bid because Taubman was not for sale and, therefore, a negotiated transaction was …show more content…

To overcome with this problem, Umbrella Partnership REIT (UPREIT) was invented in December of 1992 by the Taubman Realty Group. The UPREIT is a concept that allows a real estate owner to go public without making a taxable real estate exchange.
As per the textbook and realestateportfolio.com web site, A UPREIT works as follows: A REIT forms a partnership in which property owners contribute real estate assets in exchange for partnership interests, which are called operating partnership units or OP units. The former property owners can exchange their partnership units on a one-for-one basis for REIT shares or cash, at the REIT 's option. Since there is no fundamental change in ownership, there is no taxable event until the property owner actually receives REIT shares or cash. A transaction that exchanges real property for stock would be a taxable event. The UPREIT helped by permitting property owners to defer taxes until partnership units are converted to stock or cash.
The advantage is this structure provides a viable exit strategy to commercial property owners who otherwise might have significant capital gain tax liabilities on the sale of appreciated property. In addition, the investor benefits from additional diversification because they have an interest in a portfolio of commercial properties instead of just one property. This structure is not appropriate for every investor as they must have property that the REIT wants to add to their

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