Corporate tax

James Anderson

Partner - Head of Skadden’s European Tax practice

Sandy Bhogal

Sandy Bhogal is a partner in the London office and serves as co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Global Tax Practice. He regularly advises multinational companies, asset managers and fund sponsors, investment banks, insurers, REITs and institutional investors (including sovereign wealth funds) on their most complex tax issues. Sandy’s experience ranges from general corporate and indirect tax advice to transactional advice on matters involving M&A, corporate finance & capital markets, investment funds, structured and asset finance, insurance and real estate. He also has significant experience with corporate tax planning and transfer pricing, and often provides clients with advice on domestic and cross border tax efficient structures. He also assists clients with tax authority enquiries, wider tax risk management and multi-lateral tax controversies.

Adam Blakemore

Adam Blakemore is a Tax partner in Cadwalader’s London office. He advises on the taxation aspects of structuring domestic and cross-border corporate and financing transactions. He has advised on a wide range of financing transactions, including securitisations, hybrid capital issuances, repackagings, credit linked instruments, stock lending arrangements and a variety of financial products. Adam’s practice includes acting on restructurings in solvent and distressed debt situations, corporate reorganisations and reconstructions. He has a particular interest in the structuring and restructuring of investment funds, asset management entities and private equity financings. He also provides advice on corporate acquisitions, demergers and joint ventures, both within the UK and internationally, and provides counsel on disputes and litigation with revenue authorities, representing clients before the Appeal Courts. Adam is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Brenda Coleman

Partner and head of Tax in London

Chris Davies

Global Practice Area Leader for TPE

Karen Hughes

Partner

Mike Lane

Partner; Mike is Head of our Tax practice. He has extensive experience advising domestic and international clients on a wide range of transactions, including public and private M&A, debt and equity capital markets transactions, group reorganisations and structured finance, as well as on contentious matters, such as diverted profits tax and transfer pricing disputes, unallowable purpose challenges and State aid investigations.

Howard Murray

Partner

Dominic Stuttaford

Richard Ward

Richard Ward is Co-Managing Partner for the firm in London, and Chair of the firm’s UK Tax practice. A broad-gauged UK corporate and transactional tax lawyer, Mr. Ward has advised an array of multinational clients on mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, financing transactions and private equity fund formation and operation.

Nick Cronkshaw

Nick is head of the international corporate tax group. He has a broad experience of corporate tax with a particular emphasis on transactional work including sales and purchases of companies, mergers, demergers, reconstructions, business sales and purchases, joint ventures, and VAT. Nick also advises on structured finance products, securitisations, business process outsourcing arrangements and real estate transactions. Nick is recognised as a specialist in the mergers and acquisitions field. Recent Work includes advising Renown Inc, a Tokyo Stock Exchange listed apparel company on its complex sale of the world famous Aquascutum brand, involving the simultaneous sale of the Aquascutum Asian IP portfolio to Hong Kong conglomerate YGM and sale of the shares to the owners of Jaeger, the retention of a long-term licence in Japan (the world’s largest market for Aquascutum products) and arrangements with the UK Government regarding pension liabilities; Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited on the £211.7m acquisition of BG Group’s 50% stake in Seabank Power Limited; and advising DekaBank Group, the largest operator of open-ended property funds in Germany, in connection with the purchase of 14 Pier Walk, Greenwich Peninsula.

Jisun Choi

Counsel

Nicolas Kokkinos

Associate

Sophie Donnithorne-Tait

Sophie is a partner in our tax group. Sophie advises on all aspects of UK corporate tax and has particular expertise in advising investment fund clients on the tax issues relating to the establishment of fund structures and asset management businesses, as well as on the tax implications of financial restructurings.

Ben Fryer

Ben Fryer is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group. Ben is an experienced tax adviser with a broad practice – he advises on a wide range of domestic and cross-border matters and transactions, including in relation to banking, capital markets, corporate finance, corporate reorganisations, debt restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate and structured finance. He also guides clients on general corporate tax planning and risk management matters. Ben has advised on the structuring and execution of numerous mainstream private equity and real estate private equity transactions. He also regularly advises on carried interest and co-investment structures, executive compensation matters and equity incentive arrangements.

Serena Lee

Serena Lee is a partner in Akin’s tax group. She advises on all aspects of corporate tax, including domestic and international corporate and finance transactions, financial restructurings and corporate reorganizations. She also advises on a broad range of funds and investment structures, oil and gas tax issues and handles activist shareholder matters. To learn more about Ms. Lee, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/serena-lee.html

Kate Worthington

A partner in the firm's tax group who advises on a broad range of corporate and real estate tax matters. Kate advises on all aspects of UK corporate tax. She has particular experience in advising on real estate transactions and has acted extensively for institutional investors, listed funds (including REITs), private companies as well as individuals in this context. Kate also has experience in corporate and financing transactions, funds, joint ventures, domestic and international tax structuring and tax disputes.

William Arrenberg

Head of Tax - Partner

Elizabeth Bradley

Partner and Global Practice Group Leader - Tax, Employee Benefits and Private Client

Alexander Cox

Alexander Cox is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis' London office. His practice focuses on the structuring of investment funds, including advising in relation to management company tax issues and carried interest. He also has significant experience advising on real estate tax matters covering both the establishment of real estate funds and the M&A transactions they undertake.

Damien Crossley

Damien is head of the tax and reward group. He specialises in advising investment fund managers on the formation of private funds, on their house and remuneration structures and on the structuring of their investment transactions. He is widely recognised as a leading adviser to the investment management industry. Damien’s clients are, in the main, investment fund managers who he advises on their house, fund and investment structuring. He has a particular expertise in the structuring and operation of private equity and private credit funds and on their carried interest and co-investment arrangements. Damien also advises a number of clients on the efficient structuring of their global private equity and special opportunity investments. Damien spent a year on secondment at a leading law firm in New York practising US tax and most of his work has an international dimension. Damien is a chartered tax adviser and regularly speaks and writes on tax matters. Damien is the co-author of the textbook “Taxation of Partnerships and LLPs” which is published by Sweet & Maxwell. Damien is chairperson of the AIMA ACC tax committee.

Robert Gaut

Robert Gaut is a tax partner and head of Proskauer's UK tax practice in London. Robert provides advice on a full range of UK and international tax issues relating to fund formation, private equity deals, finance transactions and private equity real estate matters, including experience with non-traditional equity transactions, such as debt-like preferred equity and co-investments for private credit investors. Robert is highly-regarded for his ability to provide sophisticated tax advice to many of the world’s preeminent multinational companies, sovereign wealth funds, investment banks and private equity and credit funds. Clients have commented to legal directories that Robert is “really technical and knows his stuff,” and “has a very strong knowledge of the various tax laws, but also presents more innovative techniques and strategies."

Russell Jacobs

Partner, Tax

Alex Jupp

Partner

Timothy Lowe

Attorney bio can be found here: https://www.paulweiss.com/professionals/partners-and-counsel/timothy-lowe

Gareth Miles

Partner; Gareth’s practice covers all direct taxes, stamp duties and value added tax with a strong focus on corporation tax. He has extensive experience of corporate transactions, including, in particular, public and private M&A (domestic and cross-border) and group reconstructions. He also has significant expertise on private equity transactions, for example advising Blackstone on a £100m strategic minority equity investment in HH Global, on the acquisition by HH Global of Adare International Holdings Limited and an investment in Ki, the first fully digital and algorithmically-driven Lloyd’s syndicate.

James Morgan

James is a tax partner in the London office. James has a broad corporate, finance and structuring tax practice, with a particular focus on the taxation of financial institutions, debt funds and alternative credit funds.

Mavnick Nerwal

Mavnick is a corporate tax partner in the London office. He specialises in advising on public and private M&A transactions, reorganisations and reconstructions and corporate finance. Mav has a particular focus on both UK and international private equity and credit tax structuring.

Ceinwen Rees

Ceinwen combines her extensive market knowledge with legal and tax technical expertise to advise on a broad range of tax and structuring matters with a particular focus on advising investment fund managers on their fund, house, carry and co-investment structuring. Ceinwen also represents investment management and corporate clients in connection with acquisitions, disposals and restructuring of investments. Ceinwen spends a significant portion of her time advising clients on how best to deliver remuneration and incentive packages to their executives in a commercially aligned and efficient way. She also represents management teams on the tax implications arising in a buy-out situation. Ceinwen is recognised in Chambers as someone who "is responsive, commercial and practically-minded" and "very strong on client delivery". In addition to her legal qualification, Ceinwen holds a GDip in finance from the London School of Economics (2008).

Dominic Robertson

Partner; Dominic advises a wide range of businesses on all areas of tax law. His practice includes: structuring and other tax aspects of M&A, joint ventures and other corporate finance transactions tax enquiries and disputes, including EU tax State aid investigations standalone tax advisory work, including group reorganisations, CFCs, transfer pricing, and the tax treatment of IP Dominic is co-head of the firm’s Tax Disputes practice.

Charlotte Sallabank

When multinational corporations consider major transactions, tax implications often make or break the deal. Charlotte Sallabank advises on those implications, advising clients on the direct and indirect tax consequences of their largest business decisions. Her creativity, persuasive power and close attention to her clients' business aspirations consistently result in solutions that make them a reality. With more than 30 years of experience advising on transactions valued in hundreds of millions of dollars or more, Charlotte understands that providing a technical tax analysis of a given transaction is not enough. Nor is it enough to gain a deep understanding of the business motives behind a deal, as Charlotte does. She goes further and considers all perspectives that can impact the success of a transaction. In her work for large public companies, for instance, she takes care to consider the sensitivities that directors and shareholders bring to tax issues. That level of thinking can avoid adverse public opinion, strained relations with regulators and other unintended consequences of tax planning. Charlotte represents major banks, financial institutions, private equity houses and fund managers in addition to large corporations. Given the nature her clients, the transactions that she advises on often have a cross-border element. That was true of a multinational undergoing a global reorganization timed to coincide with a change in US tax law. With 24 hours left before the deadline, the client turned to Charlotte to solve a deal-breaking tax problem that was holding up UK tax approval. She did. It's just one of many major transactions in which her contribution made all the difference.

Jiten Tank

Jiten Tank is a Partner in the Tax practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He has a broad range of experience which includes providing tax advice in connection with the structuring of financial products and working on transactional matters. His areas of focus include lending, real estate finance, structuring joint venture companies, and sales and acquisitions. His practice is truly international and a significant majority of his work has a cross-border element. He also has experience in indirect (VAT, stamp duty, SDRT) planning, particularly in the context of financial and real estate transactions.

Elliot Weston

Elliot Weston is a partner in the tax practice with a broad experience of corporate tax matters. He has advised extensively on mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, funds, capital raisings, corporate reorganisations and financing transactions. Elliot regularly acts for investors and fund managers on the formation, downstream investment and capital raising of private and listed funds, in the UK and internationally.