Robert Gaut is a tax partner and head of our UK tax practice in London.

He has represented many of the world’s preeminent multinational corporations, sovereign wealth funds, investment banks and private equity funds on a full range of UK and international tax strategies relating to inbound and outbound transactions, capital markets offerings, establishment of investment funds and financing matters.

Recent representative transactions include:

• Advising Ares Management LP, the leading global alternative asset manager, on the international tax aspects of its initial public offering, raising US$216 million in the first IPO by a major private equity firm since the Carlyle Group went public in 2012

• Advising Virgin Media in the tax aspects of its US$23.3 billion acquisition by Liberty Global