Mark Joscelyne
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Work Department
Tax – VAT, C&E, corporate, international.
Position
Tax partner specialising in most areas of business and corporate tax, in particular domestic and cross-border merger and acquisition and private equity transactions, IPOs, corporate reorganisations and joint ventures. Mark also works closely with the share incentives team on bespoke employee share ownership arrangements. He also advises on the structuring of property funds, property ownership and property finance structures. Mark has recently advised two investment funds on the acquisition of Thames Water and the Seminole Tribe in relation to its acquisition of the Hard Rock Café chain from Rank. Over the past year he has also advised: Minerva, Delancey and Alburn on various significant property disposals, including corporate and unit trust-based transactions as well as a securitisation backed property re-financing for Alburn; various commercial/corporate joint ventures, eg for BBC Worldwide; a complex scheme of reconstruction for Top Up TV; and a scheme of arrangement followed by the IPO of New Star Asset Management Group plc.
Career
Career: Property partner Oppenheimers 1985; assistant solicitor, tax department, Herbert Smith 1986; Nabarro Nathanson 1988; tax partner 1990; tax partner Olswang 1996.
Education
Education: St Paul’s School; University College London (LLB Hons).
Leisure
Leisure: Theatre, antiques, history, squash.
Practice Areas
Tax - VAT, C&E; Tax - corporate; Tax - international
