Lucy Urwin Senior Associate

Senior Associate
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Lucy advises clients on a broad range of UK and cross-border corporate tax issues.

In particular Lucy advises group tax clients, including the efficient structuring of demergers as well as group reorganisations. Lucy also assists the private client group on corporate tax aspects of structuring issues for substantial privately held groups.

Lucy writes regularly on tax policy and its development – in particular tax transparency and responsible tax as an ESG item for companies, funds and investors. She is a member of the Macfarlanes ESG working group.

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Improbable

Advising Improbable, a UK-based virtual simulation start-up, on the raising of $502m in its latest financing round led by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp., with other previous investors also participating. This is the largest ever Series B investment in Europe and the biggest venture financing round by a private British company in history.

Corporate group

Reorganisation of a large, international privately owned corporate group.

Private equity funds

Advising on tax implications of proposed high value investments in private equity funds.

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Tax and the SFDR: implications for fund managers

Lucy Urwin 31 May 2023
The EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) imposes mandatory ESG disclosure obligations on certain fund managers and advisers, and in-scope financial products. For...
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LLPs and intangibles: avoiding traps in M&A and intra-group transfers

Gregory Price, Lucy Urwin 15 May 2023
Intra-group transfers of intangible fixed assets (IFAs) to or from LLPs are increasingly common as precursors to M&A transactions or post-acquisition tidy-ups. Unfortunately, the...
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Third time lucky? HMRC publishes consultation on modernisation of stamp taxes on shares and securities

Lucy Urwin 28 Apr 2023
HMRC has published a consultation on the modernisation of stamp taxes on shares (both stamp duty and SDRT), running for eight weeks to 22 June 2023.
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