DLA Piper has appointed David Quantrill as a partner in its London tax team. He is a highly respected private equity tax adviser with deep relationships with a broad range of private equity firms. 

David is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser who has worked for Deloitte, PwC and most recently FTI Consulting. He has a market leading track record of providing value added deal structuring on multi-billion-pound deals for a range of private equity firms, leading or co-leading on many of their largest M&A transactions.

During his career, David has focused exclusively on high value transactions for leading US, European and AsiaPac buy-out firms, Sovereign Wealth Funds and direct investors. He has designed numerous bespoke structuring solutions which have subsequently been adopted by the rest of the market.

David was Head of Private Equity at Deloitte from 2007 until 2011, where he was responsible for developing and implementing numerous PE Market growth strategies. He then moved to PwC where he was advisory partner on many of PwC's PE and M&A clients. He then moved to FTI in 2016/17 where he established the group’s M&A and Private Equity tax team.

Jason Collins, UK Head of Tax at DLA Piper, commented: “David has a stellar reputation as a private equity tax adviser, having built on a solid grounding within the Big Four accountancy firms. During his career he has established deep and lasting relationships with many leading private equity firms and is able to lead on highly complex tax issues relating to M&A transactions. At DLA Piper he will have a broad, international tax practice to support him and will be ideally positioned to provide his PE clients with access to the wider tax offering as well as bolstering the Corporate team in this area. We are very excited about David joining us as we believe he will help significantly expand the DLA Piper tax brand into new markets.”