Commercially Resonable Debt Opinions

Duff & Phelps helps clients structure and issues opinions regarding the commercial reasonableness of debt that companies issue to related parties for various types of transactions.

Boards of directors and trustees of income funds as well as tax attorneys and other tax advisors have relied on Duff & Phelps' opinions to assist in supporting their view that a debt should be characterized as such for income tax purposes.

Duff & Phelps offers debt opinions for intercompany and other related party transactions, including:

• Acquisitions
• Recapitalizations
• Canadian Income Fund transactions
• Income security offerings, such as IDS, IPS and EIS issuances