"A business unit with a frozen NQDC plan was sold to private equity several years ago. Seller retained the NQDC plan as part of the deal, but the seller missed the one-year window to begin distribution of all accounts still left in the plan. Therefore, seller still administering frozen NQDC plan for non-employees. The private equity firm recently sold that same business unit to another private equity group. Can the original seller take the position that this new transaction is a distributable event (i.e., terminate the plan with respect to those involved in the transaction)? It's clear from my perspective that the Seller had the right to distribute the accounts upon the original transaction (but did not proceed because of lack of awareness of that provision), so can the same analysis apply in the second iteration? The plan document indicates that the Company (the original seller in this case) can accelerate distributions upon a change in control. It's not clear if this second transaction could be considered a change in control since the affected employees don't work for the plan sponsor (the original seller). External counsel so far has taken the position that we cannot liquidate the plan in light of the new transaction, but I continue to seek other opinions."

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