Gabe holds an LLM in taxation from NYU School of Law and a Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law where he was a member of their Law Review. Gabe obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Human Development from University of California – San Diego.
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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.
Prior to joining Linklaters, Gabe worked in the San Francisco Office of Goodwin Proctor advising on tech mergers and acquisitions as well as private equity and real estate fund formation. Gabe also worked in Proskauer Rose’s New York transaction tax practice on capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions and alternative investment fund matters.
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