Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP offers strategic tax advice in connection with a broad array of complex transactions and controversies, with particular expertise in Islamic finance matters within the US. Marco Blanco and Klas Holm jointly lead the team and are located in New York. Blanco is highly experience in transactional tax matters including M&A. reorganizations, joint ventures and capital markets transactions. Holm has expertise in both transactions and tax controversies and counts corporations, partnerships, trusts and sovereign wealth funds amongst his clients. Also in New York, Olga Beloded is a key contact for arbitration proceedings and international oil and gas disputes, routinely representing governments and state-owned entities. Beth Kerwin specializes in estate, trust and tax planning on behalf of high-net-worth individuals.
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Key clients
- Brevet Capital Management
- Kuwait Projects Company (Holding)
- Evonik
- Unipharm
- Libyan Investment Authority (LIA)
- Marymount International School of Paris
- Islamic Development Bank
Work highlights
Counsel for Islamic Development Bank in a series of U.S. istisna'a (construction) financing transactions and murabaha property acquisition financings in the United States.
Advise Evonik Corporation on a broad range of tax matters, including most recently on a significant post-acquisition restructuring of a US$600million+ acquisition.
Regular outside tax counsel to Brevet, a large global investment fund manager.
Practice head
Marco Blanco; Klas Holm
Other key lawyers
Olga Beloded; Beth Kerwin