Janet Birtwell

Partner

Jan Birtwell is a partner in O’Melveny’s London office where she is a member of the Firm's Tax Practice. She joined O’Melveny in March 2005 from a large UK City law firm where she had been a tax partner since May 2001.

Jan has extensive experience advising on the UK and international tax aspects of corporate finance/M&A transactions and on the tax structuring of investment funds, particularly those focusing on private equity, infrastructure, clean tech and mezzanine/debt (including distressed debt situations). Jan also advises on the tax aspects of downstream (buyout/deal side) private equity/alternative investment businesses, including the corporate and financial restructuring of such businesses as well as on the structuring of management incentive arrangements for the funds and their portfolio investments.

Illustrative Professional Experience

• designing fund structures to suit a spectrum of investor types in various jurisdictions, including the US and Europe and underlying investment structures to suit specific investment strategies based on private equity or hedge or a mix of such models
• advising a large private banking group on appropriate feeder fund structures to invest into private equity and distressed debt funds raised by leading fund managers/houses
• advising private equity houses on leveraged buy-outs, on sales and IPO’s of portfolio companies
• advising on spin-out transactions and concurrent fund raisings by private equity management teams exiting from large financial institutions to form independent private equity houses
• advising fund investors on direct participations in large take-private bids for publicly listed companies