Mark Baldwin > Macfarlanes LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Macfarlanes LLP Offices
20 CURSITOR STREET
LONDON
EC4A 1LT
England
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Mark Baldwin
Work Department
Tax and reward
Position
Partner practicing on a broad spectrum of corporate tax work. His particular areas of expertise are the structuring of collective investment vehicles (particularly domestic and pan-European private equity and real estate funds) and associated carried interest and co-investment structures, real estate investment, development and finance and indirect tax (particularly VAT). He has advised on a number of strategic transactions for private equity houses.
Career
Qualified 1987; partner Macfarlanes 1997
Memberships
VAT Practitioners Group; Law Society’s VAT and Duties Sub-Committee; BVCA Tax Committee; Association of Partnership Practitioners; Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
(Hall of Fame)Macfarlanes LLP has a strong client offering that covers transaction structuring, fund formation and group tax advice, dispute resolution and operational tax work. Damien Crossley heads up the practice and is praised for his ‘unrivalled‘ knowledge of the private equity and investment management space. Mark Baldwin has a broad corporate tax practice and focuses on the structuring of collective investment vehicles, and Ashley Greenbank showcases expertise in cross-border finance and M&A transactions. The team also has significant experience advising funds; James McCredie and Ceinwen Rees are key names to note. Jeremy Moncrieff focuses on M&A in the asset management and wealth management space. Key changes to the team include the departure of Peter Abbott in 2021.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame - London > Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate tax - London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Retail funds
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: upper mid-market and premium deals, £500m+
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Real estate > Property finance
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Employment > Employers
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Immigration
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Finance > Securitisation
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)