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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Unpacking Pillar Two: issues and planning for investment portfolios

Ashley Greenbank, Lucy Urwin 19 Jul 2022
The treatment of investment portfolios under the GloBE rules is likely to prove particularly complex. This will be the case whether the portfolio in question is held as part of a...
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Unpacking Pillar Two: trust issues

Ashley Greenbank, Lucy Urwin 15 Jul 2022
The application of the new global minimum tax will create added complexity for groups whose holding structure includes non-corporate entities such as trusts.
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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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