Tax and Industry Expertise
- Financial Services Tax
- Real Estate Tax
Biography
Kersten Muller is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Taxand LLP in London. He leads the Real Estate Team within the Financial Investor Practice.
With more than 20 years of experience in the sector, Mr. Muller specialises in structuring real estate funds and investment vehicles, tax-efficient structuring of UK, European and global real estate transactions and due diligence of property portfolios. Known for both his technical tax expertise and his commercial and pragmatic approach to real estate transaction, Mr. Muller always looks for ways to move transactions forward and add significant value.
Mr. Muller works with clients to buy and sell properties in a tax-efficient manner that ensures that tax deductions are available for financing costs, management fees, refurbishment or redevelopment costs. His notable recent engagements include advising a UK-based opportunistic fund on the purchase of a commercial property portfolio with subsequent restructuring and re-domiciliation; handling due diligence and acquisition structuring of a large German student accommodation portfolio for a global fund; advising a UK REIT on the acquisition and restructuring of a UK assisted living project and ensuring REIT conditions were met; and structuring a real estate lending fund for property developers and handling the subsequent raising of external debt at the fund level.
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Muller led the Real Estate team at Grant Thornton UK LLP, growing the team substantially over eight years. Previously, he spent 13 years with Deloitte in their Real Estate team.
Mr. Muller was educated in Germany and the U.K., where he studied mathematics and business. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW) and an active member of the Property Taxes Committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT). A native German speaker, he is a property investor himself.
