Practice Expertise

  • ERISA Litigation
  • International Tax
  • Corporate
  • Mergers and Acquisitions

Areas of Practice

  • Corporate
  • ERISA Litigation
  • International Tax
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • LIBOR Transition
  • Structured Finance and Securitization
  • Tax
  • Tax Controversy
  • View More

Profile

David advises on a wide range of corporate tax issues and transactions, in particular those with an international element.

David is a partner on the tax and ERISA team in Hunton Andrews Kurth’s London office. He has extensive experience advising on the tax aspects of cross-border M&A transactions, structured finance transactions (advising both asset originators and arrangers), as well as the UK and international tax aspects of corporate group reorganizations.

David is the author of a number of articles in various tax publications and is a committee member of the UK Branch of the International Fiscal Association.

Relevant Experience

  • Advised a major international pharmaceuticals producer and numerous other multinational operating groups in the context of trade receivables securitizations.
  • Advised several European multinationals on the UK tax aspects of their UK energy projects.
  • Advised Lactalis in connection with the acquisition of Rachel’s Dairy, by means of a mixed asset and share deal.
  • Advised SNCF (French state railway) on the merger of its interest in the Eurostar link between Paris, London and Brussels into a single joint venture company.
  • Advised several major international vehicle companies on the structuring of the financing of their fleet operations throughout Europe.

Education
BA, Oxford University, 1998

Areas of Practice

  • Corporate
  • ERISA Litigation
  • International Tax
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • LIBOR Transition
  • Structured Finance and Securitization
  • Tax
  • Tax Controversy

Professional Career



Articles

  • Choose Your Location Carefully, FT Advisor
  • Spring Budget 2021—views from the market, Lexis®PSL Tax
  • INSIGHT: Taxation in the Time of Covid-19 and the Post-Crisis Landscape, Bloomberg Tax
  • INSIGHT: Facilitating Offshore Tax Evasion—What Can We Learn From the German Cum-Ex Scandal?, Bloomberg Tax
  • The U.K.’s Corporate Tax Landscape 2021, Bloomberg Tax
  • INSIGHT: Why Taxation of Digital Services Continues to Occupy Center Stage, Bloomberg Tax
  • Digital services tax update, Taxation
  • It’s A Digital World, Taxation Magazine
  • Spring Budget 2020 – Views From The Market
  • The UK’s Digital Services Tax, Thomson Reuters’ Journal of International Taxation

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