2 New Tax Counsel at Skadden Arps

David Foster (New York) and Alex Jupp (London) have been promoted to Counsel at Skadden Arps.

Alex Jupp Bio

Alex Jupp’s practice covers a broad range of U.K. and cross-border tax matters, with a particular focus on the tax aspects of corporate acquisitions and financings, restructurings, relocations, employee incentives, and asset management structures and related activities.

Mr. Jupp has represented a wide variety of clients in transactional and non-transactional planning, including:

– the acquisition of a European software group and its integration into the existing group structure of a worldwide media business;
– the restructuring of and capital raising for a major Latin American investment banking and asset management group;
– reviewing existing and proposed share-based incentive arrangements for compliance with the U.K. disguised remuneration rules;
– the acquisition of significant asset management businesses;
– the design and implementation of asset holding structures;
– a takeover offer for a major U.K.-listed exchange operator;
initial and follow-on U.K. listings of equity, debt and hybrid instruments;
– the formation and operation of funds and related advisory/management businesses and the investments made by those funds; and
planning for remittances of foreign income and gains to the U.K.

Mr. Jupp is a member of Share Plan Lawyers and of the Income Tax Sub-Committee of the Tax Law Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales.