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ASSIGNMENT of PARTNERSHIP INTEREST
THIS ASSIGNMENT (the "Assignment") made and entered into this ________ day of ________________, ________
AMONGST:
______________________________ of ______________________________(the "Assignor")
OF THE FIRST PART
- AND-
______________________________ of ______________________________(the "Assignee")
OF THE SECOND PART
- AND-_________________________ of _________________________(the "Remaining Partner")
OF THE THIRD PART
IN CONSIDERATION OF and as a condition of the parties entering into this Assignment and other valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which consideration is acknowledged, the parties to this Assignment agree as follows:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Assignor, the Assignee and the Remaining Partner have duly affixed their signatures under hand and seal on this ________ day of ________________, ________.
_____________________________Witness
___________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
An Assignment of Partnership Interest occurs when a partner sells their stake in a partnership to a third party. The assignment document records the details of the transfer to the new partner. The new partner will receive the benefits and obligations (including profits and losses) of the business partnership in exchange for compensation to the previous partner.
A partnership is a type of business organization where two or more individuals or business entities operate a business with the goal of making a profit.
Each partner typically has rights and obligations enforced by a Partnership Agreement including liabilities and rights to profits of the business.
There are two parties in the assignment of interest: assignor and assignee.
The assignor is the business partner who is transferring their rights in the partnership in exchange for compensation.
The assignee is a new partner who purchases the previous partner's interest in the partnership.
If there is a Partnership Agreement in place the answer is most likely, yes. A Partnership Agreement governing the activities of the partnership and conduct of the partners will often place some restrictions on the nature of the interest which may be acquired.
For example, the transferring partner might be limited to transferring only their economic interests and rights which would prevent the recipient of transferred interest from becoming a full partner (with voting rights and managerial input) by assignment alone. Full admission to the partnership would be decided by the remaining partners based on the terms of the Partnership Agreement.
The category of assignee is something else the partnership might have good reason for restricting. For example, federal tax audit rules introduced in 2018 mean that partnerships will be treated as taxable entities if one or more of the partners is itself a partnership, a trust, or an LLC. To avoid such tax consequences, and preserve individual tax treatment for the partners, the partnership agreement might prohibit assignments of partnership interest may be sold to any such business entity.
To create an Assignment of Partnership Interest, there should be a drafted document that records the transfer of rights and benefits from one partner to another and the exchange of compensation.
The partnership interest document should include:
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