Russell Jacobs

Primary Focus & Experience

Russell’s practice covers all areas of domestic and international corporate taxation.  He has developed significant expertise in the corporate finance sector where he focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and restructuring; and, in the financial services sector, on cross-border products and investment structures.

In the corporate finance area, in particular, Russell has wide experience in both the structuring of domestic and multinational consortia and joint ventures in private equity mergers, acquisitions and corporate reconstructions as well as the lease financing of high value assets, such as aircraft and other transportation assets, plant machinery and real estate.  He has significant experience in the field of investment fund structures for a wide range of assets – debt and synthetic instruments, equities, real estate, infrastructure projects, litigation funding claims – across the international spectrum of debt and equity investors.

In the project and infrastructure finance area, Russell has developed particular expertise in the structuring of international consortium and partnership-based vehicles for the financing and development of major projects and assets, the acquisition of significant portfolios of assets especially recently in the arena of bank non-core asset disposals, and the construction, maintenance and operation of infrastructure projects.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Russell read law at University College London and was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1985.  He is recognised as a leading tax lawyer and ranked in a number of legal directories.  He is actively engaged in the Pro Bono and CSR arenas, serving as a trustee of Haifa University UK and Orpheus Sinfonia, as well as chair of the board of the Israeli Red Cross (Magan David Adam UK).