Goodwin

Partner

Laura Charkin is a partner in Goodwin’s Tax practice and a member of the Private Investment Funds group and specializes in all taxation matters affecting the private investment funds industry. She advises fund managers and investors across a wide range of asset classes including private equity, debt, real estate, venture capital, infrastructure funds, and secondary funds. She has particular expertise in structuring private funds, separately managed accounts, executive incentive arrangements, the structures through which funds invest, and investment management platforms.

Laura advises on a broad range of tax issues including VAT, employment tax, capital gains tax in relation to partnerships, BEPS related tax changes and tax rules relating to carried interest and executive investments into funds. She also has considerable knowledge of international tax issues arising for investment structures with a cross-border dimension and experience with multijurisdictional fund management teams.

Laura is a member of Invest Europe’s Tax Committee and is Chair of the Business Tax Sub-Committee of UK Private Capital (formerly the BVCA). She is recognised as a Band 1 practitioner in Investment Funds Tax by Chambers Global and UK and as a leading tax practitioner in the Legal 500.

Chartered Tax Adviser, Chartered Institute of Taxation / MA, University of Cambridge 1997