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Russell Jacobs is a tax partner based in the London office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. His practice covers all areas of corporate taxation and he has developed significant expertise in the financial services sector where he focuses on the development and implementation of new financial cross-border products and investment structures for commercial and investment banks operating in or through the international capital and private placement markets.
Recent transaction experience in this area includes tax-efficient preference share and hybrid instrument issuances, foreign and domestic tax credit utilization structures, tax-enhanced capital fundraising and investment products, portfolio and single asset financings (including real estate securitization, all forms of debt and security-based stocklending and repo transactions and real estate tax-effective financing) and partnership structures. Russell has significant experience in the field of investment fund structures for a wide range of assets - debt and synthetic instruments, equities, real estate, infrastructure projects - across the international spectrum of debt and equity investors.
In the project finance area, he has developed particular expertise in the structuring of international consortium and partnership-based vehicles for the financing and development of major products, such as power stations, the acquisition of significant portfolios of assets via government and quasi-government privatization and the construction, maintenance and operation of infrastructure projects in the healthcare, educational and other public sectors via the Private Finance Initiative.
In the corporate finance area, Russell has wide experience in both the structuring of domestic and multinational consortia and joint ventures in private equity mergers, acquisitions and corporate reconstructions as well as the lease financing of high value assets, such as aircraft, plant machinery and real estate.
Russell read law at University College London and was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1985. | 