Matryoshka Doll, Private Equity Edition

From Item 2(a) in the December 31, 2007 13G filing for SuccessFactors, Inc., on page 5:

Tarrant Capital Advisors is the sole shareholder of Tarrant Advisors, Inc., a Texas corporation, which is the general partner of TPG Ventures Professionals, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, which is the general partner of TPG Ventures Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, which is the managing member of TPG Ventures Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, which is the sole member of TPG Ventures Advisors, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, which is the general partner of TPG Ventures GenPar, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, which in turn is the general partner of TPG Ventures, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “TPG Fund”), which directly owns the shares of Common Stock of the Issuer reported herein.

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14 comments

      1. craazyboy

        Just got back from Wal-Mart and the checkout lady asked me if found everything I was looking for. I said where do you stock the Tarrents? She just looked at me funny.

  1. Dirk77

    Using my financial savvy, I was going to suggest that TPG save registration costs by doing away with 7 of those companies in the chain. But one partner of TPG had the Rolling Stones play at his birthday party once. On the other hand, he may have used a Groupon like I did for that.

  2. middle seaman

    Keep in mind that each of these 756 companies is an American citizen according to the supreme court.

  3. readerOfTeaLeaves

    Ventures Professionals, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership…
    TPG Ventures Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership…
    TPG Ventures Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company…
    TPG Ventures Advisors, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company…
    TPG Ventures GenPar, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership…
    TPG Ventures, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership…

    Google ‘Delaware’ + ‘tax haven’.
    Lotsa hits.

    Here’s just one of them:http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21571873-how-stop-companies-and-people-dodging-tax-delaware-well-grand-cayman-missing-20

    Tax Justice Network has much more.

  4. Chauncey Gardiner

    To paraphrase De. Seuss: since the structure appears to be general partners all the way down, I wonder what the objective was/is of manufacturing this very cute doll?…

    Fun, thanks!!

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