Overview
Gabe has a wide-ranging finance and structuring tax practice with a particular focus on the tax issues faced by financial institutions, alternative investment funds and their managers, institutional investors and sponsors. He has extensive experience advising clients on tax and structuring issues arising from debt investments, complex partnership structures, financing transactions, risk transfer transactions, securitizations and tax-credit investments. In addition, Gabe has advised on a variety of cross-border investments including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings (both in bankruptcy and out of court restructurings), and reorganizations. Gabe also has experience working for fund sponsors on fund formation, restructuring and financing transactions and advising non-U.S. governmental entities and sovereign wealth funds on U.S. tax matters affecting their investments. Gabe’s diverse experience gives him unique perspective on the tax issues his clients face, working to develop commercial solutions.
Gabe spent over 3 years in the role of tax structuring counsel at an alternative investment advisor focused on distressed debt opportunities. In that role he advised broadly on tax matters involved in the negotiation of offering documents, response to investor tax queries, structuring and restructuring of portfolio investments, and optimization of tax structuring for fund and family office investments.
Gabe also spent three years working from our London office.
Work Highlights
- Tate & Lyle: advising on the proposed acquisition of CP Kelco, a leading provider of pectin, speciality gums and other nature-based ingredients, from J.M. Huber Corporation for US$1.8bn.
- Elia Group: advising in relation to its acquisition, through its wholly-owned subsidiary WindGrid USA, LLC, of a 35.1% stake in energyRe Giga Projects, a subsidiary of energyRe LLC—an independent US energy company solving complex sustainability challenges and delivering large-scale clean energy solutions.
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: advising Euroclear Bank on the establishment and launch of its new Digital Securities Platform and a multinational banking and financial services corporation on the inaugural issuance of €100m Series DNN 1001. 3.399% Digitally Native Notes due 2026 by the World Bank.
- Various U.S. and European investment banks: advising on issuances of structured products, risk transfer and securitization transactions.
- Moolec Science Limited: advising a LatAm science-based food ingredient company focused on the development of real animal proteins in plants, on its US$376 million business combination agreement with LightJump Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, as a result of which, a newly formed Luxembourg holding company of the combined entity, Moolec Science SA would be listed on Nasdaq and a follow-on equity line of credit with Nomura Securities International, Inc.
- Sovereign Canadian pension plans: advising on U.S. trade or business issues related to credit fund investments and direct investment activities.
- A French-based aviation equipment manufacturer and supplier: advising on structuring for lease-based securitization.
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