Alex Ereira

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Counsel London
Alex Ereira is counsel in the London Tax team. He has over ten years’ experience advising on tax and specialises in the tax aspects of private fund management. Alex has advised domestic and international private fund managers in relation to both their own structural and incentive arrangements, as well as on the tax aspects of the structuring, formation and operation of funds across a range of asset-classes and strategies. Alex also advises on fund-related transactions, including continuation funds and investor secondaries, through to complex GP stake sale transactions.

Alex also advises on complex UK and international M&A transactions.

Alex is a Chartered Tax Adviser and a member of the chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT). He previously spent nine months on secondment to the legal team of a leading European alternative asset management firm.

Recent experience, including prior to joining Weil, includes advising:

  • Quilam Capital, a specialist investment firm, on a strategic joint venture with J.P. Morgan to build a senior debt lending platform
  • A leading alternative credit fund manager on the establishment of a lending platform structured as a UK qualifying asset holding company (QAHC)
  • Various clients in relation to the reform of the UK’s taxation of carried interest
  • Various clients in relation to the operation of the UK’s salaried member rules, including recent changes pursuant to the ongoing BlueCrest case
  • Preqin, the leading private markets data solutions provider, on its sale to BlackRock for £2.55 billion
  • Partners Capital Investment Group, a global outsourced investment office, on a minority investment from General Atlantic
  • Arcmont Asset Management, the private credit manager, on its sale to Nuveen, the investment manager of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America Fund (TIAA) for over $1 billion
  • AlbaCore Capital Group on its strategic partnership with First Sentier Investors
  • ARA Venn, on the separation of its European residential and commercial property lending activities through a reorganisation of its real estate debt business

Prior to joining Weil, Alex was counsel in the Tax and Reward team at a leading UK law firm.

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