Simmons & Simmons

Corporate tax.

Martin’s broad-based practice encompasses financial markets, corporate, real estate (including structured real estate) and commercial work, with an emphasis on clients in the asset management and investment funds and financial institutions sectors. His focus includes advising on funds and other investment products, together with structural tax issues for banking, asset management and insurance clients. Martin also has a wide ranging experience in structuring outsourcing arrangements in the financial sector.

Martin leads the financial services tax practice. He is a member of the core team dedicated to advising our alternative manager client base, including emerging and more established managers. The team is behind Simmons & Simmons LaunchPlus: US to UK - the firm’s online resource for US-based fund managers launching in the UK.

In 2015, Martin spent five months on secondment with British Land covering the Head of Tax role and providing transactional and advisory support across their business.

Trained Simmons & Simmons; qualified 2000; partner 2008; regular participant at the Investment Management Association and Alternative Investment Management Association (participates in the Tax Committee); led the AIMA working group on the European Savings Directive; member of the Tax Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales, chairs VAT and Duties Sub-Committee, regularly participates on behalf of the Law Society and clients in discussions with HM Revenue and Customs on VAT matters.