GOLD SPONSOR:
Alvarez & Marsal

For more than four decades, and now with over 10,000 people across six continents, A&M has set the standard for helping organizations tackle complex business issues, boost operating performance and maximize stakeholder value.

A&M supports and partners with fund managers, investors and executives across the private funds space, covering private equity, venture capital and credit and with dedicated teams for infrastructure and real estate. Its ethos is to add value across the entire lifecycle and life events of client organisations, starting with the tax efficient structure of client fund management businesses, the design of fund and investment structures to accommodate the target investor base and minimise tax leakage, and the design of carried interest arrangements for UK, US and European tax participants, to ensure compliance with local legal requirements and minimising employment tax exposure where possible.

The firm builds long-term partnerships investment and operational phases of firm development and through to asset divestment and exit from the business. Noting that US tax issues are often critical, in addition to A&M’s extensive network of tax professionals in the US the firm also has a specialist US tax team based in London.