Martin Shah

Practice Areas

Martin’s broad-based practice encompasses financial markets, corporate, real estate (including structured real estate) and commercial work, with an emphasis on clients in the asset management and investment funds and financial institutions sectors. His focus includes advising on funds and other investment products, together with structural tax issues for banking, asset management and insurance clients. Martin also has a wide ranging experience in structuring outsourcing arrangements in the financial sector.

Martin leads the financial services tax practice which won European Financial Services Tax Team of the Year at the International Tax Review European Awards in 2011 and 2013. He is rated in the latest Legal 500 and Chambers directories (“offers wide experience on a variety of tax matters, and is particularly adept at advising clients in the financial services sector” and “a joy to work with”) and his work is recognised in International Tax Review’s World Tax handbook.

Martin is a member of the core team dedicated to advising our alternative manager client base, including emerging and more established managers. The team is behind Simmons & Simmons LaunchPlus: US to UK - the firm’s online resource for US-based fund managers launching in the UK.

In 2015, Martin spent five months on secondment with British Land covering the Head of Tax role and providing transactional and advisory support across their business.