Janet Birtwell

Partner

Jan Birtwell is a partner in O’Melveny’s London office and 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 and asset based finance. Jan has advised on the tax aspects of upstream (fundraising) as well as downstream (buyout) private equity business, including the structuring of management incentive arrangements for the funds and investee companies.

Illustrative Professional Experience

• advising private equity houses on leveraged buy-outs, on sales and IPO’s of portfolio companies
• structuring private equity/mezzanine funds
• 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 investors on large take-private bids for publicly listed companies.