Lucy Urwin 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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Pillar Two proposals: what you need to know

Gregory Price, Rhiannon Kinghall Were, Bezhan Salehy, Lucy Urwin 30 Dec 2021
Pillar Two of the OECD/G20 agreement on international tax reform aims to put a floor on tax competition and end a “race to the bottom”.
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Autumn Budget 2021—tax predictions from the market

Rhiannon Kinghall Were, Ben Webster, Lucy Urwin 19 Oct 2021
The autumn Budget will be delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak on Wednesday, 27 October 2021. We shared our predictions on the tax measures that might be...
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Reforming the international tax system: what you need to know

Ashley Greenbank, Gregory Price, Rhiannon Kinghall Were, Lucy Urwin 22 Jul 2021
On 10 July 2021, the finance ministers of the G20 endorsed the agreement reached by 130 countries nine days earlier on fundamental changes to how the profits of the largest...
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