Damien Crossley
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Tax: Investment Funds
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About
Provided by Damien Crossley
Practice Areas
Tax & Reward
Career
Damien is head of the tax and reward group. He specialises in advising investment fund managers on the formation of private funds, on their house and remuneration structures and on the structuring of their investment transactions. He is widely recognised as a leading adviser to the investment management industry.
Damien’s clients are, in the main, investment fund managers who he advises on their house, fund and investment structuring. He has a particular expertise in the structuring and operation of private equity and private credit funds and on their carried interest and co-investment arrangements. Damien also advises a number of clients on the efficient structuring of their global private equity and special opportunity investments.
Damien spent a year on secondment at a leading law firm in New York practising US tax and most of his work has an international dimension.
Damien is a chartered tax adviser and regularly speaks and writes on tax matters.
Damien is the co-author of the textbook “Taxation of Partnerships and LLPs” which is published by Sweet & Maxwell.
Damien is chairperson of the AIMA ACC tax committee.
Chambers Review
UK
Damien Crossley is head of tax at Macfarlanes. He has extensive experience handling complex tax matters for clients in the investment fund space. Fund structuring is a key area of work for him, although he also assists clients with other matters including investments and remuneration.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Damien comes up with pragmatic solutions and has a great technical ability."
"Damien comes up with pragmatic solutions and has a great technical ability."