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John is a corporate tax solicitor with more than 15 years’ experience. Having spent 6 years in private practice in London, John moved to Abu Dhabi, where a brief secondment to Mubadala Investment Company became a decade in-house, latterly as Senior Vice President of Taxation at Mubadala Capital, supporting the business across a diverse range of M&A and funds matters.
John returned to the UK in 2020 and has returned to private practice, where he now supports Ignition’s clients in matters from employment tax and incentive schemes to VAT and M&A transactions.
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I graduated with a BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford. Trained and qualified at Baker & McKenzie LLP, then Hogan & Hartson LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Before joining Ignition I spent several years in-house at Mubadala Investment Company.
I try to juggle the occasionally conflicting demands of enjoying as much time as possible with my young family, and training for triathlons, where I am gradually chipping away at my half-Ironman personal best and completed my first full Ironman in Copenhagen in 2018. On the rare occasion I have time left over, I can typically be found by the fire with a book in one hand and a Scotch in the other.
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